Fitness and Wellness Coordinators

AI & job outlook

What today's research says about this occupation's exposure to AI, how AI is actually being used in it, and where employment is headed. These are positions within published studies — measures of exposure and usage, not predictions that this job will disappear.

Exposure to current AI

Each study uses its own scale, so the raw scores are not comparable across rows — the percentile (this job's rank among all U.S. occupations with data) is the comparable figure, and sizes the bars.

OpenAI's exposure study scores tasks three ways: with a language model alone (α 0.1), with simple added tooling (β 0.4), and including AI-powered software (γ 0.7). Higher means more of the job's tasks could be done at least twice as fast — not that they will be automated away.

How AI is actually used in this job

Among measured AI assistant conversations mapped to this occupation (Anthropic Economic Index, 2026-01-15), these task types came up most. These are shares of observed AI conversations — not shares of the job, of worker time, or of what could be automated.

Job outlook

Independent U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics employment projection for 2024–2034 — a labor-market forecast, not an AI-impact forecast.

“Annual openings” counts new jobs plus replacements for workers who leave the occupation, so it can be large even when growth is modest.

Tasks

All 24 tasks O*NET lists for this occupation, ordered by importance. Each links to its own page with AI-exposure and observed-use detail.

• Maintain wellness- and fitness-related schedules, records, or reports. Core · importance 4.5
• Develop or coordinate fitness and wellness programs or services. Core · importance 4.4
• Recommend or approve new program or service offerings to promote wellness and fitness, produce revenues, or minimize costs. Core · importance 4.3
• Manage or oversee fitness or recreation facilities, ensuring safe and clean facilities and equipment. Core · importance 4.3
• Supervise fitness or wellness specialists, such as fitness instructors, nutritionists, or health educators. Core · importance 4.2
• Track attendance, participation, or performance data related to wellness events. Core · importance 4.2
• Conduct or facilitate training sessions or seminars for wellness and fitness staff. Core · importance 4.2
• Maintain or arrange for maintenance of fitness equipment or facilities. Core · importance 4.1
• Prepare or implement budgets and strategic, operational, purchasing, or maintenance plans. Core · importance 4.0
• Develop fitness or wellness classes, such as yoga, aerobics, strength training, or aquatics, ensuring a diversity of class offerings. Core · importance 4.0
• Evaluate fitness and wellness programs to determine their effectiveness. Core · importance 4.0
• Demonstrate proper operation of fitness equipment, such as resistance machines, cardio machines, free weights, or fitness assessment devices. Core · importance 3.8
• Conduct needs assessments or surveys to determine interest in, or satisfaction with, wellness and fitness programs, events, or services. Core · importance 3.8
• Teach fitness classes to improve strength, flexibility, cardiovascular conditioning, or general fitness of participants. Core · importance 3.7
• Develop marketing campaigns to promote a healthy lifestyle or participation in fitness or wellness programs. Core · importance 3.7
• Select or supervise contractors, such as event hosts or health, fitness, and wellness practitioners. Core · importance 3.7
• Track cost-containment strategies and programs to evaluate effectiveness. Core · importance 3.6
• Organize and oversee health screenings or other preventive measures, such as mammography, blood pressure, or cholesterol screenings or flu vaccinations. Supplemental · importance 3.5
• Provide individual support or counseling in general wellness or nutrition. Core · importance 3.4
• Use computer skills and software to manage Web sites or databases, publish newsletters, or provide webinars. Core · importance 3.4
• Respond to customer, public, or media requests for information about wellness programs or services. Core · importance 3.4
• Organize and oversee fitness or wellness programs, such as information presentations, blood drives, or training in first aid or cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Core · importance 3.3
• Interpret insurance data or Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) data to develop programs that address specific needs of target populations. Supplemental · importance 3.2
• Organize and oversee events such as organized runs or walks. Core · importance 3.2

Work activities

• Maintain records, documents, or other files.
• Provide health and wellness advice to patients, program participants, or caregivers.
• Perform manual service or maintenance tasks.
• Develop marketing plans or strategies.
• Conduct opinion surveys or needs assessments.
• Teach classes in area of specialization.
• Supervise employees.
• Hire personnel.
• Present information to the public.
• Recommend organizational process or policy changes.
• Implement organizational process or policy changes.
• Prepare operational budgets.
• Manage outreach activities.
• Coordinate special events or programs.
• Manage guest services.
• Schedule activities or facility use.
• Maintain personnel records.
• Conduct employee training programs.
• Develop training materials.
• Analyze data to inform personnel decisions.
• Train employees on environmental awareness, conservation, or safety topics.
• Evaluate program effectiveness.

Knowledge, skills & abilities

O*NET importance rating, from 1 (not important) to 5 (extremely important).

Knowledge

Abilities

Essential skills

Transferable skills

Skills in demand

Skills employers ask for in job postings for this occupation (Lightcast), with whether each is a common or specialized skill.

• Deductive Reasoning Common Skill
• Speech Recognition Specialized Skill
• Social Perceptiveness Common Skill
• Active Listening Common Skill
• Reading Comprehension Common Skill
• Information Ordering Specialized Skill
• Inductive Reasoning Common Skill
• Critical Thinking Common Skill
• English Language Common Skill
• Writing Common Skill
• Microsoft Excel Common Skill
• Learning Strategies Specialized Skill
• Instructing Specialized Skill
• Active Learning Common Skill
• Psychology Specialized Skill
• Time Management Common Skill
• Systems Analysis Specialized Skill
• Complex Problem Solving Common Skill
• Negotiation Common Skill
• Microsoft Word Common Skill
• Microsoft Windows Common Skill
• Microsoft PowerPoint Common Skill
• Microsoft Outlook Common Skill
• Adobe Acrobat Specialized Skill
• Visualization Specialized Skill
• Mathematics Common Skill
• Telecommunications Specialized Skill
• Biology Specialized Skill
• Finger Dexterity Common Skill
• Microsoft Publisher Specialized Skill
• Email Software Specialized Skill
• Depth Perception Common Skill
• Airtable Specialized Skill
• Equipment Selection Specialized Skill
• Foreign Language Common Skill
• Physics Specialized Skill
• Chemistry Specialized Skill
• Equipment Maintenance Specialized Skill
• Geography Specialized Skill
• Presentation Software Specialized Skill

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Tools & technology

Work context

How characteristic each condition is of the job, on O*NET's 1–5 context scale (higher = more present in day-to-day work). Each condition links to how it varies across all occupations.

How to get in

Job zone

Zone 4 — Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed

Education

Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.

Typical entry-level education

High school diploma or equivalent · BLS, the typical path — not a requirement

Related experience

A considerable amount of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.

Preparation level

SVP (7.0 to < 8.0) — total schooling plus on-the-job experience.

What to study: Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services , Culinary, Entertainment, and Personal Services . Fields of study crosswalked to this occupation (NCES CIP–SOC), not a requirement.

Education of current workers

Share of people in this occupation at each level of education.

Interests & work styles

The interests and personal qualities O*NET associates with people who do this work.

Interest areas

Career interests (Holland / RIASEC)

Work styles

Wages & employment

U.S. · annual wages (BLS OEWS)

Wages and employment are reported by BLS for the broader occupation group this specialty belongs to (SOC 11-9179), not for the specialty alone.

Industries that employ this occupation

Where these workers are employed, by number of jobs (national, BLS OEWS). Pay shown is the occupation's national median, not industry-specific.

Where this work is most concentrated

Industries where this occupation is far more common than in the economy as a whole. The location quotient is how many times more concentrated it is here (a value of 5 means five times its economy-wide share).

Related occupations

Part of the Arts, Entertainment, & Design and Management & Entrepreneurship career clusters.

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Side-by-side comparisons place two occupations’ pay, preparation, skills, and AI exposure on the same page — same data, same scale, no forecast.

What you can do with this

Options the data surfaces for Fitness and Wellness Coordinators — not advice or a forecast. Each is a real cross-link you can follow into the evidence.

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
• BLS Employment Projections 2024–2034 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27) Anthropic
• Microsoft “Working with AI” working-with-ai Microsoft Research
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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