Proofreaders and Copy Markers

Imminent Risk
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Vote Comments (3)
AUTOMATION RISK
CALCULATED
100%
(Imminent Risk)
POLLING
71%
(High Risk, Based on 106 votes)
Average: 86%
LABOR DEMAND
GROWTH
-3.4%
by year 2033
WAGES
$48,790
or $23.45 per hour
Volume
5,490
as of 2023
SUMMARY
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JOB SCORE
1.6/10
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Job Score (higher is better):

We rate jobs using four factors. These are:

- Chance of being automated
- Job growth
- Wages
- Volume of available positions

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Calculated automation risk

100% (Imminent Risk)

Imminent Risk (81-100%): Occupations in this level have an extremely high likelihood of being automated in the near future. These jobs consist primarily of repetitive, predictable tasks with little need for human judgment.

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We haven't found any important qualities of this job that can't be easily automated

User poll

71% chance of full automation within the next two decades

Our visitors have voted that it's probable this occupation will be automated. This assessment is further supported by the calculated automation risk level, which estimates 100% chance of automation.

What do you think the risk of automation is?

What is the likelihood that Proofreaders and Copy Markers will be replaced by robots or artificial intelligence within the next 20 years?

Sentiment

The following graph is shown where there are enough votes to produce meaningful data. It displays user poll results over time, providing a clear indication of sentiment trends.

Sentiment over time (yearly)

Growth

Very slow growth relative to other professions.

The number of 'Proofreaders and Copy Markers' job openings is expected to decline 3.4% by 2033

Total employment, and estimated job openings

* Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the period between 2023 and 2033
Updated projections are due 09-2025.

Wages

Low paid relative to other professions

In 2023, the median annual wage for 'Proofreaders and Copy Markers' was $48,790, or $23 per hour

'Proofreaders and Copy Markers' were paid 1.5% higher than the national median wage, which stood at $48,060

Wages over time

* Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics

Volume

Significantly lower range of job opportunities compared to other professions

As of 2023 there were 5,490 people employed as 'Proofreaders and Copy Markers' within the United States.

This represents around < 0.001% of the employed workforce across the country

Put another way, around 1 in 27 thousand people are employed as 'Proofreaders and Copy Markers'.

Job description

Read transcript or proof type setup to detect and mark for correction any grammatical, typographical, or compositional errors. Excludes workers whose primary duty is editing copy. Includes proofreaders of braille.

SOC Code: 43-9081.00

Comments (3)

John (Low)
23 Aug 2019 17:16
AI is fine for "yes or no" corrections of text - misspelled words, grammar. But it doesn't have the sense of context, of being able to identify when a piece of text perhaps needs to be "wrong" for effect or format. Or identifying tone or whether something is libelous or off-brand/off-message. If you need evidence of how AI is imperfect when it comes to correcting text, consider how frequently auto-correct and similar predictive tools - and even spell check (which is far from 100% perfect) go wrong.
Joe Jo
06 Jul 2020 02:00
Have you heard of Grammarly?
Cain
14 Apr 2021 23:59
Hi, proofreader here. Grammarly is currently an imperfect software, but I'm confident that in the long-run language programs such as GPT-3 will improve their ability to determine context. I expect I'll first be using them in tandem to edit substandard writing before it learns enough to shove me into the UBI line.
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