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Tutors vs Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors

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A factual, source-backed comparison of Tutors and Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors 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.”

Tutors Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors
Median pay · BLS OEWS
$40,090
$59,950
Employment · BLS OEWS
174,660
36,260
AI exposure (percentile) · task overlap, not automation
86th pct
59th pct

At a glance

Dimension Tutors Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors
Median pay $40,090 $59,950
Employment 174,660 36,260
Employment outlook (2024–34) · BLS projection About average (+0.6%) Declining (-13.7%)
Annual openings · BLS projection 37,100 3,900
Typical education · O*NET Most occupations in this zone require training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree. Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.
AI exposure · published exposure studies High · 86th pct Moderate · 59th pct
Global GenAI gradient · ILO ISCO-08 · via crosswalk — 62nd pct · 34% of tasks
Observed AI use · Anthropic Economic Index — Augmentation-leaning (70.9%)
Mostly remote-capable · Dingel–Neiman — Yes

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: Customer and Personal Service, English Language, Education and Training, Reading Comprehension, Instructing, Oral Comprehension, Active Listening, Speaking, Learning Strategies, Written Comprehension, Oral Expression, Written Expression, Speech Clarity, Speech Recognition, Critical Thinking, Social Perceptiveness, Writing, Active Learning, Complex Problem Solving, Monitoring, Service Orientation, Fluency of Ideas, Problem Sensitivity, Deductive Reasoning, Inductive Reasoning, Near Vision, Judgment and Decision Making, Information Ordering, Time Management, Selective Attention, Coordination, Persuasion, Negotiation, Originality, Category Flexibility, Mathematical Reasoning.

Specific to Tutors

  • Mathematics
  • Computers and Electronics
  • Psychology
  • Mathematics

Specific to Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors

  • Administrative
  • Flexibility of Closure
  • Administration and Management
  • Systems Analysis

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: Web page creation and editing software , Spreadsheet software , Office suite software , Presentation software , Word processing software , Video conferencing software , Computer based training software , Multi-media educational software , Electronic mail software , Project management software , Internet browser software .

Specific to Tutors

Specific to Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors

Full profiles

This page is a summary. See the complete source-backed profile for Tutors or Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors — 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. "Tutors vs Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors." 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; Frey & Osborne (2013) frey-osborne-automation; Dingel & Neiman (2020) dingel-neiman-workathome. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/compare/tutors-vs-adult-basic-education-adult-secondary-education-and-english-as-a-second-language-instructors

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Singulariki. (2026). Tutors vs Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/compare/tutors-vs-adult-basic-education-adult-secondary-education-and-english-as-a-second-language-instructors

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