Culinary, Entertainment, and Personal Services

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 23% — 14th percentile of all fields of study. The independent Felten/Raj/Seamans AI Occupational Exposure index averages -0.29 here.

Computed across the 29 of 31 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 31 programs.

• 12.0409 Aesthetician/Esthetician and Skin Care Specialist
• 12.0501 Baking and Pastry Arts/Baker/Pastry Chef
• 12.0402 Barbering/Barber
• 12.0502 Bartending/Bartender
• 12.0602 Casino Dealing
• 12.0601 Casino Operations and Services, General
• 12.0500 Cooking and Related Culinary Arts, General
• 12.0499 Cosmetology and Related Personal Grooming Arts, Other
• 12.0413 Cosmetology, Barber/Styling, and Nail Instructor
• 12.0401 Cosmetology/Cosmetologist, General
• 12.0503 Culinary Arts/Chef Training
• 12.0509 Culinary Science/Culinology
• 12.9999 Culinary, Entertainment, and Personal Services, Other
• 12.0404 Electrolysis/Electrology and Electrolysis Technician
• 12.0408 Facial Treatment Specialist/Facialist
• 12.0505 Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant
• 12.0507 Food Service, Waiter/Waitress, and Dining Room Management/Manager
• 12.0302 Funeral Direction/Service
• 12.0301 Funeral Service and Mortuary Science, General
• 12.0399 Funeral Service and Mortuary Science, Other
• 12.0407 Hair Styling/Stylist and Hair Design
• 12.0508 Institutional Food Workers
• 12.0406 Make-Up Artist/Specialist
• 12.0414 Master Aesthetician/Esthetician
• 12.0506 Meat Cutting/Meat Cutter
• 12.0303 Mortuary Science and Embalming/Embalmer
• 12.0410 Nail Technician/Specialist and Manicurist
• 12.0411 Permanent Cosmetics/Makeup and Tattooing
• 12.0504 Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager
• 12.0412 Salon/Beauty Salon Management/Manager

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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  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},
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