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Public Administration and Social Service Professions

Field of study · CIP 2020

Public Administration and Social Service Professions is one of the fields of study in the U.S. Department of Education's Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP). It contains 14 detailed programs and, through the official CIP–SOC crosswalk, connects to 28 occupations employing about 7,872,690 workers, with a median wage of $74,150. The crosswalk shows which jobs a field of study is related to — not a guarantee of entry.

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.

Median occupation wage $74,150
Middle range (p25–p75) $58,548 – $102,245
Occupations with wage data 28 of 28

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% — 63rd percentile of all fields of study. The independent Felten/Raj/Seamans AI Occupational Exposure index averages 1.04 here.

Computed across the 25 of 28 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.

Occupation Workers Median pay
General and Operations Managers 3,584,420 $102,950
Managers, All Other 630,980 $136,550
Medical and Health Services Managers 565,840 $117,960
Social and Human Service Assistants 424,220 $45,120
Child, Family, and School Social Workers 382,960 $58,570
Construction Managers 348,330 $106,980
Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary 229,720 $105,620
Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers 213,000 $102,010
Chief Executives 211,850 $206,420
Social and Community Service Managers 195,490 $78,240
Healthcare Social Workers 185,940 $68,090
Eligibility Interviewers, Government Programs 156,260 $51,500
Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Workers 125,910 $60,060
Community and Social Service Specialists, All Other 110,390 $54,940
Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialists 86,820 $64,520
Marriage and Family Therapists 65,870 $63,780
Social Workers, All Other 64,940 $69,480
Education Teachers, Postsecondary 59,090 $72,090
Urban and Regional Planners 43,040 $83,720
Social Scientists and Related Workers, All Other 36,970 $100,340
Counselors, All Other 33,340 $49,830
Social Science Research Assistants 32,940 $58,040
Legislators 26,510 $44,810
Political Science Teachers, Postsecondary 17,170 $94,680
Postmasters and Mail Superintendents 13,810 $92,730
Social Work Teachers, Postsecondary 13,350 $76,210
Traffic Technicians 7,580 $58,480
Political Scientists 5,950 $139,380

Programs in this field

A sample of the detailed CIP programs within this family. The full family contains 14 programs.

  • 44.0201 Community Organization and Advocacy
  • 44.0502 Education Policy Analysis
  • 44.0703 Forensic Social Work
  • 44.0503 Health Policy Analysis
  • 44.0000 Human Services, General
  • 44.0504 International Policy Analysis
  • 44.0401 Public Administration
  • 44.0499 Public Administration, Other
  • 44.0501 Public Policy Analysis, General
  • 44.0402 Public Works Management
  • 44.0701 Social Work
  • 44.0799 Social Work, Other
  • 44.0403 Transportation and Infrastructure Planning/Studies
  • 44.0702 Youth Services/Administration

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 3, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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Plain

Singulariki. "Public Administration and Social Service Professions." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from 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. https://singulariki.com/programs/public-administration-and-social-service-professions

APA

Singulariki. (2026). Public Administration and Social Service Professions. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/programs/public-administration-and-social-service-professions

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