AI Career Radar

Health Education Specialists

Provide and manage health education programs that help individuals, families, and their communities maximize and maintain healthy lifestyles. Use data to identify community needs prior to planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating programs designed to encourage healthy lifestyles, policies, and environments. May link health systems, health providers, insurers, and patients to address individual and population health needs. May serve as resource to assist individuals, other health professionals, or the community, and may administer fiscal resources for health education programs.

AI exposure31 / 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 automation14
Freedom to set tasks79
Repeating the same tasks64
$64,070Median annual wage, U.S.BLS OEWS
+5.6%Jobs, 2025 to 2035 (faster than average)BLS Employment Projections
62Skill 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
Active Listening
63
78
Speaking
63
78
Critical Thinking
63
69
Monitoring
63
56
Judgment and Decision Making
63
56
Active Learning
62
72
Coordination
62
66
Complex Problem Solving
62
53
Reading Comprehension
61
69
Time Management
61
60
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Skills ranked by transferability. Both scores use a 0–100 scale.
SkillTransferabilityImportance in current role
Writing
60
78
Social Perceptiveness
60
72
Learning Strategies
58
75
Instructing
58
60
Systems Analysis
57
53
Service Orientation
56
56
Systems Evaluation
56
50
Persuasion
54
53
Mathematics
53
28
Negotiation
52
50
Science
52
38
Management of Personnel Resources
50
50
Operations Analysis
49
50
Installation
48
0
Management of Financial Resources
47
31
Management of Material Resources
47
28
Technology Design
47
19
Quality Control Analysis
47
9
Equipment Selection
47
0
Equipment Maintenance
47
0
Troubleshooting
47
0
Operations Monitoring
46
22
Repairing
46
0
Programming
45
9
Operation and Control
43
13

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.
$97,870
10-yr growth
+16.6%
Skill gap
11%
Retraining
Low

Skills to build: Complex Problem Solving, Monitoring, Service Orientation, Judgment and Decision Making

83/100 match
Median pay · U.S.
$123,860
10-yr growth
+24.2%
Skill gap
20%
Retraining
Moderate

Skills to build: Management of Material Resources, Management of Financial Resources, Management of Personnel Resources, Negotiation

83/100 match
Median pay · U.S.
$129,180
10-yr growth
+21%
Skill gap
16%
Retraining
Moderate

Skills to build: Quality Control Analysis, Operations Monitoring, Complex Problem Solving, Systems Analysis

83/100 match
Median pay · U.S.
$135,880
10-yr growth
+21.1%
Skill gap
17%
Retraining
Moderate

Skills to build: Operations Monitoring, Monitoring, Judgment and Decision Making, Complex Problem Solving

83/100 match
Median pay · U.S.
$100,330
10-yr growth
+14.8%
Skill gap
11%
Retraining
Low

Skills to build: Monitoring, Service Orientation, Judgment and Decision Making, Instructing

A second source of income, before you need it

This page can tell you where Health Education Specialists 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.