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Medical Transcriptionists
Also filed here: Medical transcriptionist, Transcriptionist
Mostly untouched
AI barely touches this work so far. The BLS expects 4.4% fewer of these jobs by 2035.
Clinical work often uses specialised medical AI tools that consumer Copilot data does not see, so this file probably understates how much AI touches it.
- Rank
- #351 of 785 jobs, by how much of the work AI does
- US jobs, 2025 to 2035
- -4.4% All jobs: +3.5%
- Median US pay
- $40,410 a year, 2025
- People doing it
- 42,000 in the US, with about 6,200 openings a year
The work, 5 activities
The job description, marked up.
Every activity in this job, the biggest first. Tap a line for the evidence.
- deleAI does this
- +AIAI helps
- stetStill yours
Still yours: Prepare health or medical documents54%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
AI does this: Perform administrative or clerical activities20%
AI performed this in about 1 in 401 Copilot conversations and completed it 90% of the time.
Still yours: Maintain health or medical records16%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
AI helps with this: Execute financial transactions5%
People asked AI for help with this in about 1 in 1,073 conversations, and it got them there 93% of the time.
Still yours: Schedule appointments4%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
2025 to 2035
Ten years from now.
For every 100 of these jobs in 2025, the BLS projects 96 in 2035. Across all US jobs, about 104.
Even shrinking, it should still see about 6,200 openings a year as people retire or move on.
BLS on AICurrent generative AI and speech recognition can replicate core tasks, so fewer workers are needed. Source ↗
Nearby
Where your skills travel.
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The wire
On the wire.
Nothing filed about this job yet. The latest from the Health front:
How to read this file.
deleAI does this. In US Bing Copilot conversations from January to September 2024, AI itself performed the activity, completed it and made a real difference often enough to count.
+AIAI helps. People brought the activity to AI as their own goal, and it usually got them there.
stetStill yours. It barely shows up in AI use, AI rarely finishes it, or in this job it needs hands.
Shares are weighted by how much each activity matters in the job, using O*NET. Microsoft’s own AI applicability score for this job is 0.08, higher than 27% of jobs.
Doing an activity is not doing a job. The researchers behind this data warn against reading it as job loss, and so do we. It is US data; the shape of the work travels.
Clinical work often uses specialised medical AI tools that consumer Copilot data does not see, so this file probably understates how much AI touches it.
Sources: Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025) · O*NET OnLine, 31-9094 · BLS Employment Projections 2025 to 2035
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