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title: "Will AI Replace Personal Care Aides? (2026)"
description: "BLS rates personal care aides' exposure to AI as moderate. What that means, which parts of the work AI touches, and the 2025–2035 outlook (+18.1%…"
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# Will AI Replace Personal Care Aides? (2026)

**Short answer:** Unlikely. BLS rates the work's exposure to AI as moderate, below the middle of the pack, and still projects employment to grow faster than average.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics places personal care aides in its moderate AI exposure category, below the middle of the pack: some of the work overlaps with what AI can do, much of it does not. BLS projects employment to change by +18.1% over 2025–2035, against 3.5% for all occupations, with about 760,500 openings a year.

| Measure | Value | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| BLS relative AI exposure | Moderate | BLS Employment Projections, AI exposure categories |
| NueCareer AI-resilience score | 60/100 | NueCareer analysis of O\*NET 31.0 Database |
| Projected employment change | +18.1% | BLS EP 2025–2035 |
| Openings a year | 760,500 | BLS EP 2025–2035 |
| Median annual wage | $35,800 | BLS OEWS May 2025 |

## Exposure categories

| BLS category | Occupations |
| --- | --- |
| Low | 203 |
| Moderate (this job) | 194 |
| High | 190 |
| Very high | 199 |

Exposure means AI could be or has been used to assist with or complete some of the work. BLS says it does not imply job loss, productivity gains, automation probability or wage effects. Method: https://www.bls.gov/emp/publications/ai-exposure-categories.htm

## What holds up

- Assisting and caring for others: 5.0/5 (O\*NET work activity importance)
- Performing general physical activities: 4.1/5 (O\*NET work activity importance)
- Establishing and maintaining interpersonal relationships: 4.4/5 (O\*NET work activity importance)
- Face-to-face discussions: 4.3/5 (O\*NET work context)

## What AI reaches first

- Documenting/recording information: 4.0/5 (O\*NET work activity importance)
- Getting information: 4.7/5 (O\*NET work activity importance)
- Evaluating information to determine compliance with standards: 4.1/5 (O\*NET work activity importance)
- Processing information: 3.5/5 (O\*NET work activity importance)

## O\*NET tasks

- Administer bedside or personal care, such as ambulation or personal hygiene assistance.
- Prepare and maintain records of client progress and services performed, reporting changes in client condition to manager or supervisor.
- Provide clients with communication assistance, typing their correspondence or obtaining information for them.
- Care for individuals or families during periods of incapacitation, family disruption, or convalescence, providing companionship, personal care, or help in adjusting to new lifestyles.
- Perform healthcare-related tasks, such as monitoring vital signs and medication, under the direction of registered nurses or physiotherapists.
- Instruct or advise clients on issues, such as household cleanliness, utilities, hygiene, nutrition, or infant care.

## FAQ

**Will AI replace personal care aides?**

Unlikely. BLS rates the work's exposure to AI as moderate, below the middle of the pack, and still projects employment to grow faster than average. BLS defines exposure as AI being able to assist with or complete some of the work, and says it does not imply job loss, productivity gains or wage effects. BLS projects employment to change by +18.1% over 2025–2035, against 3.5% for all occupations, with about 760,500 openings a year.

**How exposed are personal care aides to AI?**

BLS sorts 786 occupations into four relative categories: low, moderate, high and very high. Personal Care Aides are in the moderate category, alongside 193 other occupations. The categories combine five public measures of where AI could be or already is used, and they compare occupations with each other rather than giving an absolute risk.

**What parts of a personal care aide's job can AI do?**

In O\*NET's description of the work, the parts that overlap most with what AI handles well are documenting/recording information, getting information and evaluating information to determine compliance with standards. The parts that hold up best are assisting and caring for others, performing general physical activities and establishing and maintaining interpersonal relationships. These come from O\*NET ratings of how important each activity is to the job, read through NueCareer's AI-resilience method.

**Is being a personal care aide a safe career from AI?**

On NueCareer's AI-resilience score, built from O\*NET work activities, personal care aides score 60 out of 100, higher than 85% of the occupations we score. The job pays a median of $35,800 a year (BLS OEWS, May 2025). No job is fully safe from technological change, but the federal exposure category and the projected openings are the two numbers worth weighing.

Full profile: https://nuecareer.com/careers/personal-care-aide.

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This bank includes information from the O\*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). O\*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. NueCareer has transformed the data by joining it to BLS wage and projection data and deriving facet, personality-fit and AI-resilience scores. BLS and BEA data are public domain (17 U.S.C. §105).

O\*NET content is used under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). How these figures are sourced and derived: https://nuecareer.com/careers/methodology