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What is this page & how do I use it?

This is a sector view — every science career CareerStar rates, on the same neutral baseline, with field-level stats up top so you can size up the whole field at a glance.

How to use it: the table is ranked best-first. Click any career for its full report, and watch the moat column — 🏰 wide means well-shielded from AI, — means broadly exposed.

Careers
42
Median score
48
Avg growth
+3.6%
Wide moats
8/42

Every science career, on a neutral baseline · median pay $84k · click a career for its full report · moat = how shielded from AI (🏰 wide = well-defended, 🛡 narrow = some shelter, — = broadly exposed)

CareerRatingMoatGrowthPay
Clinical and counseling psychologists5.0 · 67🏰 Wide+11.2%$96k
Occupational health and safety specialists5.0 · 67🛡 Narrow+12.5%$84k
Epidemiologists5.0 · 65🛡 Narrow+16.2%$84k
Food scientists and technologists5.0 · 62🏰 Wide+6.5%$85k
Industrial-organizational psychologists5.0 · 62🏰 Wide+6.3%$110k
Medical scientists, except epidemiologists5.0 · 62🛡 Narrow+8.7%$101k
Biochemists and biophysicists5.0 · 61🏰 Wide+5.8%$104k
Forensic science technicians5.0 · 61+12.8%$67k
Materials scientists4.5 · 58🛡 Narrow+4.9%$104k
Chemists4.5 · 57🛡 Narrow+4.9%$84k
Animal scientists4.5 · 55🛡 Narrow+5.8%$79k
Microbiologists4.5 · 55🛡 Narrow+4.1%$87k
Occupational health and safety technicians4.5 · 54+8.5%$58k
Environmental scientists and specialists, including health4.0 · 53+4.4%$80k
Soil and plant scientists4.0 · 53🛡 Narrow+5.4%$71k
Sociologists4.0 · 52🛡 Narrow+3.6%$102k
Astronomers4.0 · 51🏰 Wide+2.2%$132k
Geoscientists, except hydrologists and geographers4.0 · 51🛡 Narrow+3.2%$99k
Physicists4.0 · 51🛡 Narrow+4%$166k
Urban and regional planners4.0 · 50🛡 Narrow+3.4%$84k
Conservation scientists3.5 · 48🛡 Narrow+3.4%$68k
Anthropologists and archeologists3.5 · 47🏰 Wide+3.7%$65k
Economists3.5 · 46🛡 Narrow+1.2%$115k
Food science technicians3.5 · 46🛡 Narrow+4.8%$49k
Chemical technicians3.5 · 45+3.7%$58k
Historians3.5 · 44🛡 Narrow+2.2%$74k
School psychologists3.5 · 44🏰 Wide+0.7%$87k
Agricultural technicians3.0 · 42🛡 Narrow+4.3%$47k
Atmospheric and space scientists3.0 · 42🛡 Narrow+0.7%$97k
Biological technicians3.0 · 42+3.5%$52k
Environmental science and protection technicians, including health3.0 · 42+4%$49k
Foresters3.0 · 42🛡 Narrow+1.2%$71k
Nuclear technicians3.0 · 42🏰 Wide-7.7%$104k
Political scientists3.0 · 42🛡 Narrow-3.1%$139k
Social science research assistants3.0 · 42+4.4%$58k
Zoologists and wildlife biologists3.0 · 42🛡 Narrow+1.6%$73k
Hydrologists3.0 · 41🛡 Narrow-0.1%$92k
Geographers3.0 · 39🛡 Narrow-3.1%$97k
Geological technicians, except hydrologic technicians2.5 · 34+1.5%$48k
Forest and conservation technicians2.5 · 31🛡 Narrow-3.2%$54k
Hydrologic technicians2.5 · 31-2.1%$59k
Survey researchers2.5 · 30-5.2%$63k