AI Career Radar

Healthcare Social Workers

Provide individuals, families, and groups with the psychosocial support needed to cope with chronic, acute, or terminal illnesses. Services include advising family caregivers. Provide patients with information and counseling, and make referrals for other services. May also provide case and care management or interventions designed to promote health, prevent disease, and address barriers to access to healthcare.

AI exposure22 / 100Low exposure

Based on O*NET work context for this occupation. This score does not predict individual job losses.

What drives the score

Automation and repetition raise exposure; freedom to set tasks lowers it. Each measure uses a 0–100 scale.

Degree of automation17
Freedom to set tasks81
Repeating the same tasks31
$67,880Median annual wage, U.S.BLS OEWS
+8.5%Jobs, 2025 to 2035 (faster than average)BLS Employment Projections
63Skill durability (moderate)Transferability, out of 100

How well your skills transfer

Each skill is scored on how well it transfers into occupations that are growing and less exposed. The ones high on both importance and transfer are worth deepening.

Highest transferability first

Both scores out of 100

Skills ranked by transferability. Both scores use a 0–100 scale.
SkillTransferabilityImportance in current role
Speaking
63
78
Active Listening
63
75
Critical Thinking
63
75
Judgment and Decision Making
63
66
Monitoring
63
56
Coordination
62
75
Complex Problem Solving
62
72
Active Learning
62
69
Reading Comprehension
61
75
Time Management
61
53
Show 25 more skills
Skills ranked by transferability. Both scores use a 0–100 scale.
SkillTransferabilityImportance in current role
Social Perceptiveness
60
81
Writing
60
72
Learning Strategies
58
53
Instructing
58
50
Systems Analysis
57
44
Service Orientation
56
78
Systems Evaluation
56
53
Persuasion
54
56
Mathematics
53
25
Negotiation
52
53
Science
52
41
Management of Personnel Resources
50
53
Operations Analysis
49
47
Installation
48
0
Management of Material Resources
47
19
Technology Design
47
16
Quality Control Analysis
47
16
Management of Financial Resources
47
16
Equipment Selection
47
0
Equipment Maintenance
47
0
Troubleshooting
47
0
Operations Monitoring
46
16
Repairing
46
0
Programming
45
16
Operation and Control
43
16

Compare how well you can use each skill in growing, low-exposure occupations with its importance in your current role. How we score skills.

Jobs you could move to

Compare related occupations by skill overlap, retraining effort, pay and projected growth. Choose a priority to adjust the ranking. Licensing requirements may limit some routes.

84/100 match
Median pay · U.S.
$129,180
10-yr growth
+21%
Skill gap
15%
Retraining
Moderate

Skills to build: Operations Monitoring, Quality Control Analysis, Systems Analysis, Monitoring

84/100 match
Median pay · U.S.
$135,880
10-yr growth
+21.1%
Skill gap
15%
Retraining
Moderate

Skills to build: Operations Monitoring, Monitoring

83/100 match
Median pay · U.S.
$123,860
10-yr growth
+24.2%
Skill gap
19%
Retraining
Moderate

Skills to build: Management of Financial Resources, Management of Material Resources, Instructing, Systems Analysis

83/100 match
Median pay · U.S.
$100,580
10-yr growth
+11.7%
Skill gap
7%
Retraining
Low

Skills to build: Reading Comprehension, Learning Strategies, Monitoring, Writing

83/100 match
Median pay · U.S.
$97,870
10-yr growth
+16.6%
Skill gap
10%
Retraining
Low

Skills to build: Learning Strategies, Instructing, Monitoring, Systems Analysis

A second source of income, before you need it

This page can tell you where Healthcare Social Workers could go and what the move costs. The other route is not a move at all: something small of your own, running alongside the job, started while there is no pressure on it.

Where to learn the missing half: Google Career Certificates for systems analysis · active learning, LinkedIn Learning for writing · speaking, edX for mathematics · reading and PlanetNoCode for complex problem solving. Some of those are affiliate links. It never changes what we list.

Snapshot: O*NET 31.0, BLS OEWS May 2025, BLS Employment Projections 2025-2035. Scoring v2.1.0-onet-31.0. Method on the how it works page.