Biological and Biomedical Sciences

What the occupations pay

Median annual wage across the occupations this field of study leads to, from BLS OEWS (national, cross-industry, May 2024). The middle range is the 25th–75th percentile of those occupation medians — it describes the field, not any one job or graduate.

AI exposure of this field of study

Two published studies estimate how exposed each occupation is to today's AI. The OpenAI "GPTs are GPTs" study rates the share of an occupation's tasks a large language model (with tools) could speed up by half or more; averaged across the occupations this field of study leads to it is 45% — 68th percentile of all fields of study. The independent Felten/Raj/Seamans AI Occupational Exposure index averages 0.90 here.

Computed across the 34 of 35 occupations this field leads to that carry a published exposure score.

The most-exposed fields of study lead to knowledge, language and analytical work; the least-exposed lead to physical trades and hands-on production. Exposure measures where AI could assist tasks, not a prediction that these jobs will be automated; high exposure most often means augmentation. Bands are comparable across the cluster, education, job-zone and field-of-study tiers (same two studies, same percentile method).

Where this field of study leads

The largest occupations connected to this field by the CIP–SOC crosswalk, by employment. Wage and employment describe the occupation, not an individual.

Programs in this field

A sample of the detailed CIP programs within this family. The full family contains 92 programs.

• 26.0912 Aerospace Physiology and Medicine
• 26.0403 Anatomy
• 26.0708 Animal Behavior and Ethology
• 26.0804 Animal Genetics
• 26.0707 Animal Physiology
• 26.1304 Aquatic Biology/Limnology
• 26.0202 Biochemistry
• 26.0210 Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• 26.0299 Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Other
• 26.1103 Bioinformatics
• 26.9999 Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Other
• 26.0101 Biology/Biological Sciences, General
• 26.1199 Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, Other
• 26.0913 Biomechanics
• 26.0102 Biomedical Sciences, General
• 26.1101 Biometry/Biometrics
• 26.0203 Biophysics
• 26.1102 Biostatistics
• 26.1201 Biotechnology
• 26.0301 Botany/Plant Biology
• 26.0399 Botany/Plant Biology, Other
• 26.0907 Cardiovascular Science
• 26.0407 Cell Biology and Anatomy
• 26.0903 Cell Physiology
• 26.0499 Cell/Cellular Biology and Anatomical Sciences, Other
• 26.0401 Cell/Cellular Biology and Histology
• 26.0406 Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology
• 26.1104 Computational Biology
• 26.1307 Conservation Biology
• 26.0404 Developmental Biology and Embryology

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.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
• CIP-2020 2020 U.S. National Center for Education Statistics
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic
• AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans academic

Data compiled June 3, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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  title  = {Biological and Biomedical Sciences},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; CIP-2020 2020; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/programs/biological-and-biomedical-sciences}
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