# Health Care and Social Assistance

> Sector (NAICS 62) — The Sector as a Whole

The Health Care and Social Assistance sector comprises establishments providing health care and social assistance for individuals.  The sector includes both health care and social assistance because it is sometimes difficult to distinguish between the boundaries of these two activities.  The industries in this sector are arranged on a continuum starting with establishments providing medical care exclusively, continuing with those providing health care and social assistance, and finally finishing with those providing only social assistance.  Establishments in this sector deliver services by trained professionals.  All industries in the sector share this commonality of process, namely, labor inputs of health practitioners or social workers with the requisite expertise.  Many of the industries in the sector are defined based on the educational degree held by the practitioners included in the industry.

Excluded from this sector are yoga and aerobics instruction in Subsector 611, Educational Services, physical fitness facilities in Subsector 713, Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries, and personal fitness training services and non-medical diet and weight reducing centers in Subsector 812, Personal and Laundry Services.  Although these can be viewed as health services, these services are not typically delivered by health practitioners.


- **NAICS code:** 62
- **Canonical URL:** https://singulariki.com/industries/62
- **Frame:** "AI exposure" means task overlap, not jobs lost. Figures aggregate over the occupations employed in this industry, each traced to a named public dataset.

## Scale & pay

- **Employment (BLS OEWS, May 2024):** 23,103,420 across 507 occupations.
- **Typical annual wage (employment-weighted median):** $62,154.

## AI exposure

- **AI task-overlap (employment-weighted across 454 occupations):** 51st percentile (Moderate) — Eloundou GPT-overlap + Felten AIOE; task overlap, not automation.

## Largest occupations

- Home Health and Personal Care Aides — 3,874,910 employed; $34,800
- Registered Nurses (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-29-1141-00) — 2,790,380 employed; $93,170
- Nursing Assistants (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-31-1131-00) — 1,267,150 employed; $39,150
- Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-43-6013-00) — 753,180 employed; $44,530
- Medical Assistants (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-31-9092-00) — 750,930 employed; $44,080
- Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-29-2061-00) — 543,940 employed; $61,990
- Receptionists and Information Clerks (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-43-4171-00) — 449,730 employed; $38,410
- Medical and Health Services Managers (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-11-9111-00) — 445,150 employed; $108,040
- Dental Assistants (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-31-9091-00) — 361,300 employed; $47,250
- Substance Abuse, Behavioral Disorder, and Mental Health Counselors — 358,420 employed; $58,280
- Preschool Teachers, Except Special Education (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-25-2011-00) — 332,580 employed; $36,180
- Childcare Workers (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-39-9011-00) — 315,010 employed; $31,000
- Office Clerks, General (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-43-9061-00) — 289,710 employed; $42,680
- Clinical Laboratory Technologists and Technicians — 288,450 employed; $62,420
- Nurse Practitioners (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-29-1171-00) — 281,110 employed; $129,330
- Social and Human Service Assistants (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-21-1093-00) — 277,510 employed; $43,830
- Physicians, All Other (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-29-1229-00) — 258,240 employed; $235,660
- First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-43-1011-00) — 250,320 employed; $62,240
- Physical Therapists (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-29-1123-00) — 231,650 employed; $101,200
- Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-37-2012-00) — 226,480 employed; $35,610

## Sources

- **O*NET** (30.3) — U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development. https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html
- **BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS)** (May 2024) — U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. https://www.bls.gov/oes/
- **Census NAICS** (2022) — U.S. Census Bureau. https://www.census.gov/naics/
- **Anthropic Economic Index** (v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27)) — Anthropic. https://www.anthropic.com/economic-index
- **“GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.)** (arXiv 2303.10130) — OpenAI / academic. https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.10130
- **AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE)** (Felten, Raj & Seamans) — academic. https://github.com/AIOE-Data/AIOE

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_Generated from Singulariki's joined dataset; data snapshot 2026-06-03T03:26:54.804143+00:00. https://singulariki.com/industries/62_