AI Career Radar

Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialists

Provide social services to assist in rehabilitation of law offenders in custody or on probation or parole. Make recommendations for actions involving formulation of rehabilitation plan and treatment of offender, including conditional release and education and employment stipulations.

AI exposure47 / 100Moderate 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 automation42
Freedom to set tasks75
Repeating the same tasks75
$66,270Median annual wage, U.S.BLS OEWS
+3%Jobs, 2025 to 2035 (about average)BLS Employment Projections
58Skill 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
75
Speaking
63
75
Critical Thinking
63
72
Monitoring
63
69
Judgment and Decision Making
63
66
Complex Problem Solving
62
69
Active Learning
62
60
Coordination
62
53
Reading Comprehension
61
72
Time Management
61
60
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Skills ranked by transferability. Both scores use a 0–100 scale.
SkillTransferabilityImportance in current role
Social Perceptiveness
60
75
Writing
60
69
Instructing
58
50
Learning Strategies
58
31
Systems Analysis
57
47
Service Orientation
56
50
Systems Evaluation
56
44
Persuasion
54
53
Mathematics
53
22
Negotiation
52
53
Science
52
19
Management of Personnel Resources
50
31
Operations Analysis
49
19
Installation
48
0
Quality Control Analysis
47
25
Troubleshooting
47
16
Management of Financial Resources
47
16
Management of Material Resources
47
16
Technology Design
47
13
Equipment Selection
47
0
Equipment Maintenance
47
0
Operations Monitoring
46
31
Repairing
46
0
Programming
45
16
Operation and Control
43
28

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.
$135,880
10-yr growth
+21.1%
Skill gap
15%
Retraining
Moderate

Skills to build: Operations Monitoring, Active Learning, Monitoring, Service Orientation

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, Systems Analysis, Systems Evaluation

81/100 match
Median pay · U.S.
$97,870
10-yr growth
+16.6%
Skill gap
15%
Retraining
Moderate

Skills to build: Learning Strategies, Operations Analysis, Instructing, Service Orientation

80/100 match
Median pay · U.S.
$123,860
10-yr growth
+24.2%
Skill gap
26%
Retraining
Moderate

Skills to build: Operations Analysis, Management of Personnel Resources, Management of Financial Resources, Management of Material Resources

80/100 match
Median pay · U.S.
$100,580
10-yr growth
+11.7%
Skill gap
14%
Retraining
Low

Skills to build: Learning Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Service Orientation, Writing

A second source of income, before you need it

This page can tell you where Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment 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.