Social 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 49% — 73rd percentile of all fields of study. The independent Felten/Raj/Seamans AI Occupational Exposure index averages 1.13 here.

Computed across the 30 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 40 programs.

• 45.1002 American Government and Politics (United States)
• 45.0201 Anthropology, General
• 45.0299 Anthropology, Other
• 45.0502 Applied Demography
• 45.0602 Applied Economics
• 45.1102 Applied/Public Sociology
• 45.0301 Archeology
• 45.1003 Canadian Government and Politics
• 45.0401 Criminology
• 45.0204 Cultural Anthropology
• 45.0501 Demography and Population Studies
• 45.0599 Demography, Other
• 45.0604 Development Economics and International Development
• 45.0603 Econometrics and Quantitative Economics
• 45.0601 Economics, General
• 45.0699 Economics, Other
• 45.0205 Forensic Anthropology
• 45.0702 Geographic Information Science and Cartography
• 45.0701 Geography
• 45.1501 Geography and Anthropology
• 45.0799 Geography, Other
• 45.0605 International Economics
• 45.0901 International Relations and Affairs
• 45.0999 International Relations and National Security Studies, Other
• 45.0203 Medical Anthropology
• 45.0902 National Security Policy Studies
• 45.0202 Physical and Biological Anthropology
• 45.1004 Political Economy
• 45.1001 Political Science and Government, General
• 45.1099 Political Science and Government, Other

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.

@misc{singulariki-social-sciences,
  title  = {Social 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/social-sciences}
}