# Physical Scientists

> SOC minor group 19-2000 within Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations — 13 detailed occupations.

- **SOC minor group:** 19-2000
- **Canonical URL:** https://singulariki.com/occupation-groups/physical-scientists
- **Frame:** "AI exposure" means task overlap, not jobs lost. Figures below are aggregates over the group's member occupations, each traced to a named public dataset.

## Scale & pay

- **Employment (BLS OEWS, May 2024):** 536,370.
- **Median wage:** $97,450.
- **Projected growth (BLS 2024–34):** 4.0%.
- **Annual openings:** 49.9.

## AI exposure

- **AI task-overlap (mean across member occupations):** 92nd percentile (High) — Eloundou GPT-overlap + Felten AIOE; task overlap, not automation.

## Member occupations

- Climate Change Policy Analysts (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-19-2041-01) — $80,060; 1st percentile overlap
- Environmental Restoration Planners (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-19-2041-02) — $80,060; 1st percentile overlap
- Environmental Scientists and Specialists, Including Health (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-19-2041-00) — $80,060; 1st percentile overlap
- Industrial Ecologists (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-19-2041-03) — $80,060; 1st percentile overlap
- Chemists (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-19-2031-00) — $84,150; 0th percentile overlap
- Physical Scientists, All Other (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-19-2099-00) — $117,960; 0th percentile overlap
- Remote Sensing Scientists and Technologists (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-19-2099-01) — $117,960; 0th percentile overlap
- Geoscientists, Except Hydrologists and Geographers (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-19-2042-00) — $99,240; 0th percentile overlap
- Physicists (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-19-2012-00) — $166,290; 1st percentile overlap
- Atmospheric and Space Scientists (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-19-2021-00) — $97,450; 1st percentile overlap
- Materials Scientists (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-19-2032-00) — $104,160; 1st percentile overlap
- Hydrologists (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-19-2043-00) — $92,060; 1st percentile overlap
- Astronomers (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-19-2011-00) — $132,170; 0th percentile overlap

## 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/
- **BLS Employment Projections** (2024–2034) — U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. https://www.bls.gov/emp/
- **“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 2026-06-02T20:31:11.516731+00:00. https://singulariki.com/occupation-groups/physical-scientists_