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Nurse Practitioners vs Family Medicine Physicians

Side-by-side · O*NET · BLS · AI-exposure research · Anthropic Economic Index

A factual, source-backed comparison of Nurse Practitioners and Family Medicine Physicians on the dimensions both occupations carry. Every figure is a position within an independent published dataset — not a verdict on which job is better, safer, or more “future-proof.”

Nurse Practitioners Family Medicine Physicians
Median pay · BLS OEWS
$129,210
$238,380
Employment · BLS OEWS
307,390
107,950
AI exposure (percentile) · task overlap, not automation
47th pct
56th pct

At a glance

Dimension Nurse Practitioners Family Medicine Physicians
Median pay $129,210 $238,380
Employment 307,390 107,950
Employment outlook (2024–34) · BLS projection Growing fast (+40.1%) About average (+2.7%)
Annual openings · BLS projection 29,500 3,300
Typical education · O*NET Most of these occupations require graduate school. For example, they may require a master's degree, and some require a Ph.D., M.D., or J.D. (law degree). Most of these occupations require graduate school. For example, they may require a master's degree, and some require a Ph.D., M.D., or J.D. (law degree).
AI exposure · published exposure studies Moderate · 47th pct Moderate · 56th pct
Global GenAI gradient · ILO ISCO-08 · via crosswalk 47th pct · 25% of tasks —
Observed AI use · Anthropic Economic Index Augmentation-leaning (69.1%) —
Mostly remote-capable · Dingel–Neiman No —

Pay and employment are BLS OEWS estimates; outlook and openings are BLS 2024–2034 projections; AI exposure and observed-use figures come from separate research and reflect exposure and usage, not predictions that either job will disappear. Compare like with like.

Skills

Shared: Medicine and Dentistry, English Language, Written Comprehension, Problem Sensitivity, Inductive Reasoning, Biology, Psychology, Customer and Personal Service, Reading Comprehension, Active Listening, Critical Thinking, Complex Problem Solving, Oral Expression, Written Expression, Deductive Reasoning, Near Vision, Writing, Speaking, Active Learning, Monitoring, Social Perceptiveness, Judgment and Decision Making, Therapy and Counseling, Oral Comprehension, Information Ordering, Speech Recognition, Speech Clarity, Service Orientation, Education and Training, Science, Coordination, Sociology and Anthropology, Mathematics, Learning Strategies, Time Management, Fluency of Ideas, Flexibility of Closure.

Specific to Nurse Practitioners

  • Category Flexibility
  • Persuasion
  • Chemistry

Specific to Family Medicine Physicians

  • Computers and Electronics
  • Instructing
  • Selective Attention

Knowledge, skills & abilities O*NET rates as important for each occupation. “Shared” are common to both; the columns list what is distinctive to each (top by the order O*NET surfaces).

Tools & technology

Shared: Medical software , Spreadsheet software , Office suite software , Electronic mail software , Internet browser software .

Specific to Nurse Practitioners

Specific to Family Medicine Physicians

Full profiles

This page is a summary. See the complete source-backed profile for Nurse Practitioners or Family Medicine Physicians — tasks, the full skill graph, tools, work context, preparation, wages by percentile, industries, AI exposure and the AI work map.

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Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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Singulariki. "Nurse Practitioners vs Family Medicine Physicians." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; BLS Employment Projections 2024–2034; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); Microsoft “Working with AI” working-with-ai; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans; ILO / Gmyrek et al. GenAI exposure gradient 2025; IBS O*NET-SOC ↔ ISCO-08 occupation crosswalk 2022; Dingel & Neiman (2020) dingel-neiman-workathome. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/compare/nurse-practitioners-vs-family-medicine-physicians

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Singulariki. (2026). Nurse Practitioners vs Family Medicine Physicians. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/compare/nurse-practitioners-vs-family-medicine-physicians

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