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Dietitians and Nutritionists

Occupation · SOC 29-1031.00

Plan and conduct food service or nutritional programs to assist in the promotion of health and control of disease. May supervise activities of a department providing quantity food services, counsel individuals, or conduct nutritional research.

Also called: Clinical Dietitian · Dietitian · Nutritionist · Registered Dietitian · Clinical Dietician · Clinical Nutritionist · Oncology Dietitian · Outpatient Dietitian · Registered Dietician · Renal Dietitian · Administrative Dietitian · Community Dietitian

Job family: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

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AI work map

A fast read on where AI already shows up in this occupation, where it stays a copilot, where humans remain in the loop, and what the labor market is doing. Built from observed Claude.ai conversations mapped to O*NET tasks and from published research — measures of usage and exposure, not advice or predictions that the job is going away.

Often handed to AI

Task areas most often handled directively in observed AI conversations — candidates to delegate with light review.

  • Develop curriculum and prepare manuals, visual aids, course outlines, and other materials used in teaching. · 1.5%
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Use as a copilot

Task areas where people work with AI — iterating, learning, or checking — staying in the loop rather than handing the task off.

  • Counsel individuals and groups on basic rules of good nutrition, healthy eating habits, and nutrition monitoring to improve their quality of life. · 12.2%
  • Write research reports and other publications to document and communicate research findings. · 8.2%
  • Advise patients and their families on nutritional principles, dietary plans and diet modifications, and food selection and preparation. · 6.2%
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Keep a human in the loop

Task areas where a human was still judged necessary in a large share of observed conversations — not a safety ruling, an observed-need signal.

  • Advise food service managers and organizations on sanitation, safety procedures, menu development, budgeting, and planning to assist with the establishment, operation, and evaluation of food service facilities and nutrition programs. · 100.0% need a human
  • Counsel individuals and groups on basic rules of good nutrition, healthy eating habits, and nutrition monitoring to improve their quality of life. · 98.3% need a human
  • Advise patients and their families on nutritional principles, dietary plans and diet modifications, and food selection and preparation. · 96.3% need a human
See the boundary tasks →

89th-percentile task overlap — yet about 6,200 openings a year (+5.5% projected, BLS), and observed AI use leans 7015% copilot, not hand-off (AEI) . What exposure means →

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.

Measure Rank vs all occupations Percentile Score
Overall AI exposure (Felten et al.) High 91st 1.3
LLM task exposure, γ (OpenAI / Eloundou) High 86th 1.0
AI assistant applicability (Microsoft) High 74th 0.2

OpenAI's exposure study scores tasks three ways: with a language model alone (α 0.1), with simple added tooling (β 0.5), and including AI-powered software (γ 1.0). Higher means more of the job's tasks could be done at least twice as fast — not that they will be automated away.

This job mostly cannot be done remotely (Dingel–Neiman) — its hands-on tasks sit outside what software-based AI reaches.

Historical automation estimate (2013)

A pre-LLM (2013) estimate of how automatable this job is by computerization and robotics. Shown for historical context only — it is not part of any current AI ranking.

Frey–Osborne probability 0.0 · 2nd percentile among occupations · Low

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.

Counsel individuals and groups on basic rules of good nutrition, healthy eating habits, and nutrition monitoring to improve their quality of life. 16.6%
Develop curriculum and prepare manuals, visual aids, course outlines, and other materials used in teaching. 7.5%
Write research reports and other publications to document and communicate research findings. 2.0%

Job outlook

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

Outlook About average · +5.5% by 2034
Projected annual openings 6,200
Employment 2024 → 2034 90,900 → 95,900

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

Where this work sits on the global GenAI gradient

The ILO's 2025 global study scores generative-AI exposure on the international ISCO-08 occupation system, not US SOC. Bridged through the published (and approximate, many-to-many) IBS O*NET-SOC ↔ ISCO-08 crosswalk, this US occupation corresponds to the international occupation below. Exposure here means how much of the work's tasks today's AI can attempt — task overlap, not automation, adoption, or jobs lost.

41% mean task exposure (2025)
78th percentile of 427 placed occupations
+3 pts shift 2023 → 2025
International occupation (ISCO-08) Task exposure (2025) Most tasks fall in
Dieticians and Nutritionists · 2265 41% Minimal

Read the whole six-band gradient on the GenAI exposure gradient page. The crosswalk is approximate: a US occupation can map to several international ones, and the ILO scores describe the international occupation, not this exact US role.

Working with AI in this job

How people actually apply AI to this occupation's tasks, from Claude.ai (Free and Pro) conversations in the Anthropic Economic Index, 2026-01-15. This is one AI assistant's consumer sample — not all AI, not the whole workforce. Autonomy and the collaboration mix are model-rated estimates; figures below the sample floor are hidden.

Augmentation vs. automation 70.2% working with AI · 27.6% handed to AI
Most common way people use AI here Learning · you ask AI to explain or teach
Typical AI autonomy 4.0 / 5 · higher = AI acts more independently
Used for work (vs. personal / coursework) 16.2%

What people delegate to AI

The role's most common tasks in AI conversations, each tagged with how people work with the AI on it. “Usage” is the share of observed conversations, not of the job.

Task How Usage
Counsel individuals and groups on basic rules of good nutrition, healthy eating habits, and nutrition monitoring to improve their quality of life. Learning 12.2%
Write research reports and other publications to document and communicate research findings. Iteration 8.2%
Advise patients and their families on nutritional principles, dietary plans and diet modifications, and food selection and preparation. Learning 6.2%
Assess nutritional needs, diet restrictions and current health plans to develop and implement dietary-care plans and provide nutritional counseling. Iteration 4.4%
Develop curriculum and prepare manuals, visual aids, course outlines, and other materials used in teaching. Directive 1.5%
Advise food service managers and organizations on sanitation, safety procedures, menu development, budgeting, and planning to assist with the establishment, operation, and evaluation of food service facilities and nutrition programs. Iteration 0.4%

Where a human is still needed

Tasks where the model most often judged that a person remained necessary — a useful read on the current boundary, not a guarantee.

Advise food service managers and organizations on sanitation, safety procedures, menu development, budgeting, and planning to assist with the establishment, operation, and evaluation of food service facilities and nutrition programs. 100.0%
Counsel individuals and groups on basic rules of good nutrition, healthy eating habits, and nutrition monitoring to improve their quality of life. 98.3%
Advise patients and their families on nutritional principles, dietary plans and diet modifications, and food selection and preparation. 96.3%
Write research reports and other publications to document and communicate research findings. 91.3%
Develop curriculum and prepare manuals, visual aids, course outlines, and other materials used in teaching. 89.0%
Assess nutritional needs, diet restrictions and current health plans to develop and implement dietary-care plans and provide nutritional counseling. 86.2%

What people most often hand AI here

Example prompts phrased from the tasks people most often delegate to AI in this occupation (Anthropic Economic Index). Each shows the underlying measured task and its share of observed AI use. They are suggested phrasings of real tasks — starting points, not endorsed instructions.

  • Help me counsel individuals and groups on basic rules of good nutrition, healthy eating habits, and nutrition monitoring to improve their quality of life.

    From: Counsel individuals and groups on basic rules of good nutrition, healthy eating habits, and nutrition monitoring to improve their quality of life. · 12.2% of measured AI use · learning

  • Help me write research reports and other publications to document and communicate research findings.

    From: Write research reports and other publications to document and communicate research findings. · 8.2% of measured AI use · task iteration

  • Help me advise patients and their families on nutritional principles, dietary plans and diet modifications, and food selection and preparation.

    From: Advise patients and their families on nutritional principles, dietary plans and diet modifications, and food selection and preparation. · 6.2% of measured AI use · learning

  • Help me assess nutritional needs, diet restrictions and current health plans to develop and implement dietary-care plans and provide nutritional counseling.

    From: Assess nutritional needs, diet restrictions and current health plans to develop and implement dietary-care plans and provide nutritional counseling. · 4.4% of measured AI use · task iteration

Tasks

All 28 tasks O*NET lists for this occupation, ordered by importance. Each links to its own page with AI-exposure and observed-use detail.

Work activities

Knowledge, skills & abilities

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

Knowledge

Biology 4.4
Medicine and Dentistry 4.3
English Language 4.1
Therapy and Counseling 4.1
Customer and Personal Service 4.0
Psychology 3.9
Education and Training 3.8
Mathematics 3.6
Computers and Electronics 3.4
Chemistry 3.4
Sociology and Anthropology 3.3

Essential skills

Reading Comprehension 4.0
Active Listening 4.0
Speaking 4.0
Critical Thinking 4.0
Writing 3.9
Monitoring 3.9
Learning Strategies 3.8
Active Learning 3.6
Science 3.3

Transferable skills

Social Perceptiveness 4.0
Judgment and Decision Making 4.0
Service Orientation 3.9
Complex Problem Solving 3.9
Coordination 3.8
Instructing 3.8
Persuasion 3.4

Abilities

Oral Comprehension 4.0
Written Comprehension 4.0
Oral Expression 4.0
Written Expression 4.0
Problem Sensitivity 4.0
Deductive Reasoning 4.0
Inductive Reasoning 4.0
Speech Clarity 4.0
Category Flexibility 3.9
Information Ordering 3.8
Speech Recognition 3.6
Originality 3.5
Near Vision 3.4

Skills in demand

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

Showing the top 40 of 42.

Tools & technology

Example Category
Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet software Hot technology
Microsoft Office software Office suite software Hot technology
Microsoft Outlook Electronic mail software Hot technology
Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation software Hot technology
Microsoft Word Word processing software Hot technology
Allergenic diet software Analytical or scientific software
Aurora FoodPro Analytical or scientific software
Axxya Systems Nutritionist Pro Analytical or scientific software
BioEx Systems Nutrition Maker Plus Medical software
Compu-Cal Nutrition Assistant Analytical or scientific software
Cronometer Analytical or scientific software
CyberSoft NutriBase Data base user interface and query software
Database software Data base user interface and query software
DietMaster Systems DietMaster Data base user interface and query software
ESHA Research The Food Processor Analytical or scientific software
Google Drive Cloud-based data access and sharing software
Graphics software Graphics or photo imaging software
Ketogenic planning software Analytical or scientific software
Lifestyles Technologies DietMaster Pro Medical software
MNT Northwest MNT Assistant Medical software
Monash University Low FODMAP Diet App Analytical or scientific software
Mosby's Nutritrac Analytical or scientific software
MyFitnessPal Analytical or scientific software
Nutrient analysis software Analytical or scientific software
PICS DietMate Professional Analytical or scientific software
ReadyTalk Network conferencing software
Skype Desktop communications software
Statistical software Analytical or scientific software
SureQuest Systems Square 1 Medical software
The Nutrition Company FoodWorks Analytical or scientific software
ValuSoft MasterCook Data base user interface and query software
Web browser software Internet browser software

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.

E-Mail 4.9
Face-to-Face Discussions with Individuals and Within Teams 4.9
Telephone Conversations 4.6
Indoors, Environmentally Controlled 4.6
Contact With Others 4.6
Freedom to Make Decisions 4.5
Determine Tasks, Priorities and Goals 4.2
Importance of Being Exact or Accurate 4.0
Work With or Contribute to a Work Group or Team 3.9
Time Pressure 3.8
Written Letters and Memos 3.7
Deal With External Customers or the Public in General 3.7
Spend Time Sitting 3.6
Exposed to Disease or Infections 3.6
Physical Proximity 3.5
Frequency of Decision Making 3.3
Health and Safety of Other Workers 3.3
Level of Competition 3.2
Coordinate or Lead Others in Accomplishing Work Activities 3.2
Dealing With Unpleasant, Angry, or Discourteous People 3.1
Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results 3.0
Work Outcomes and Results of Other Workers 2.9
Public Speaking 2.8
Exposed to Sounds, Noise Levels that are Distracting or Uncomfortable 2.6
Conflict Situations 2.6
Importance of Repeating Same Tasks 2.5
Spend Time Standing 2.4
Consequence of Error 2.3
Spend Time Walking or Running 2.0
Wear Common Protective or Safety Equipment such as Safety Shoes, Glasses, Gloves, Hearing Protection, Hard Hats, or Life Jackets 1.9
Dealing with Violent or Physically Aggressive People 1.7
Exposed to Contaminants 1.7
Spend Time Making Repetitive Motions 1.7
Degree of Automation 1.7
In an Enclosed Vehicle or Operate Enclosed Equipment 1.7
Wear Specialized Protective or Safety Equipment such as Breathing Apparatus, Safety Harness, Full Protection Suits, or Radiation Protection 1.6
Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls 1.5
Exposed to Minor Burns, Cuts, Bites, or Stings 1.5
Indoors, Not Environmentally Controlled 1.3
Exposed to Hazardous Equipment 1.3

How to get in

Job zone
Zone 5 — Job Zone Five: Extensive Preparation Needed
Education
Most of these occupations require graduate school. For example, they may require a master's degree, and some require a Ph.D., M.D., or J.D. (law degree).
Typical entry-level education
Bachelor's degree · BLS, the typical path — not a requirement
Related experience
Extensive skill, knowledge, and experience are needed for these occupations. Many require more than five years of experience. For example, surgeons must complete four years of college and an additional five to seven years of specialized medical training to be able to do their job.
Preparation level
SVP (8.0 and above) — total schooling plus on-the-job experience.

What to study: Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences , Health Professions and Related Programs , Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies . 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.

Post-Baccalaureate Certificate 53.3%
Master's Degree 33.3%
Bachelor's Degree 10.0%
Associate's Degree (or other 2-year degree) 3.3%

Interests & work styles

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

Work styles

Dependability 8.0
Attention to Detail 7.0
Integrity 6.0
Intellectual Curiosity 5.0
Cooperation 4.0

Interest areas

Health Care Service 5.8
Professional Advising 5.1
Personal Service 5.0
Medical Science 4.5
Teaching/Education 4.3
Life Science 4.0
Culinary Art 3.8
Public Speaking 3.8
Social Science 3.6

Career interests (Holland / RIASEC)

Social 5.5
Investigative 4.8

Wages & employment

U.S. · annual wages (BLS OEWS)

$49k10th$61k25th$74kMedian$85k75th$102k90th
Annual wages by percentile — U.S. (BLS OEWS). The light band spans the 10th–90th percentile; the darker band is the middle half (25th–75th); the line is the median.
91k202496k2034 (proj.)+5.5% · About average
Projected U.S. employment, 2024–2034 (BLS Employment Projections). A labor-market forecast for the occupation, not an AI-impact forecast.
10th percentile $48,830
25th percentile $61,260
Median (50th) $73,850
75th percentile $85,200
90th percentile $101,760
People employed 76,570

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.

Industry Workers National median pay
Health Care and Social Assistance · Sector 51,390 $75,060
Accommodation and Food Services · Sector 7,250 $70,650
Educational Services · Sector 2,550 $62,150
Other Services (except Public Administration) · Sector 1,320 $66,060
Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services · Sector 1,200 $72,110
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services · Sector 1,110 $66,880
Management of Companies and Enterprises · Sector 940 $76,870
Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation · Sector 730 $62,400
Services for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities · National industry 570 $64,290
Fitness and Recreational Sports Centers · National industry 500 $62,400
Retail Trade · Sector 480 $74,880
Outpatient Mental Health and Substance Abuse Centers · National industry 430 $65,500

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).

Industry Concentration Workers
Health Care and Social Assistance · Sector 4.48× 51,390
Outpatient Mental Health and Substance Abuse Centers · National industry 2.8× 430
Residential Mental Health and Substance Abuse Facilities · National industry 2.41× 310
Offices of Mental Health Practitioners (except Physicians) · National industry 1.75× 210
Fitness and Recreational Sports Centers · National industry 1.6× 500
Residential Intellectual and Developmental Disability Facilities · National industry 1.03× 200
Accommodation and Food Services · Sector 1.03× 7,250
Offices of Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapists, and Audiologists · National industry 1.01× 240

Part of the Healthcare & Human Services career cluster.

Exposure quadrant: AI task-overlap percentile vs Median pay Dietitians and Nutritionists sits at the 89th percentile of AI task-overlap and the 63rd percentile of median pay, placed here against 10 adjacent occupations on the same two axes. Lower overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · lower pay Lower overlap · lower pay Dietitians and Nutritionists Exercise Physiologists Nurse Midwives Naturopathic Physicians Clinical Nurse Specialists Dietetic Technicians Health Education Specialists Family Medicine Physicians AI task-overlap percentile → ↑ Median pay
AI task-overlap percentile (horizontal) vs. median-pay percentile (vertical), across all scored occupations. This occupation is highlighted; related occupations are plotted alongside it. Overlap measures shared tasks with AI, not automation.

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 Dietitians and Nutritionists — not advice or a forecast. Each is a real cross-link you can follow into the evidence.

Skills that travel

Capabilities this work builds that are used across many other occupations.

Paths in

How people typically prepare for this work.

Zoom out

On the global GenAI exposure gradient this work sits around the 78th percentile of 427 international occupations.

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Dietitians and Nutritionists show 89th-percentile AI task overlap — and about 6,200 annual U.S. openings

  • Dietitians and Nutritionists rank in the 89th percentile (High band) for AI task overlap across U.S. occupations — a measure of how much of the work today's AI can attempt, not how much is automated.Eloundou et al. (GPTs are GPTs) + Felten AIOE
  • The occupation is projected to see about 6,200 U.S. job openings per year (2024–34), counting growth and replacement — a labor-demand projection made independently of AI.BLS Employment Projections 2024–34
  • BLS projects employment to be about average (+5.5%) from 2024 to 2034.BLS Employment Projections 2024–34
  • Median annual pay is $73,850, across about 76,570 U.S. workers.BLS OEWS (May 2024)
  • Of the AI use actually observed for this work, 70% looks like augmentation (drafting, iterating, checking) rather than hands-off automation — from a Claude.ai usage sample, not a census.2026-01-15-v4-plus-2025-03-27-v2
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Dietitians and Nutritionists show 89th-percentile AI task overlap — and about 6,200 annual U.S. openings

• Dietitians and Nutritionists rank in the 89th percentile (High band) for AI task overlap across U.S. occupations — a measure of how much of the work today's AI can attempt, not how much is automated. (Eloundou et al. (GPTs are GPTs) + Felten AIOE)
• The occupation is projected to see about 6,200 U.S. job openings per year (2024–34), counting growth and replacement — a labor-demand projection made independently of AI. (BLS Employment Projections 2024–34)
• BLS projects employment to be about average (+5.5%) from 2024 to 2034. (BLS Employment Projections 2024–34)
• Median annual pay is $73,850, across about 76,570 U.S. workers. (BLS OEWS (May 2024))
• Of the AI use actually observed for this work, 70% looks like augmentation (drafting, iterating, checking) rather than hands-off automation — from a Claude.ai usage sample, not a census. (2026-01-15-v4-plus-2025-03-27-v2)

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Singulariki. "Dietitians and Nutritionists." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; BLS Employment Projections 2024–2034; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); Microsoft “Working with AI” working-with-ai; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans; ILO / Gmyrek et al. GenAI exposure gradient 2025; IBS O*NET-SOC ↔ ISCO-08 occupation crosswalk 2022; Frey & Osborne (2013) frey-osborne-automation; Dingel & Neiman (2020) dingel-neiman-workathome. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/roles/role-29-1031-00

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@misc{singulariki-role-29-1031-00,
  title  = {Dietitians and Nutritionists},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; BLS Employment Projections 2024–2034; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); Microsoft “Working with AI” working-with-ai; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans; ILO / Gmyrek et al. GenAI exposure gradient 2025; IBS O*NET-SOC ↔ ISCO-08 occupation crosswalk 2022; Frey & Osborne (2013) frey-osborne-automation; Dingel & Neiman (2020) dingel-neiman-workathome. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/roles/role-29-1031-00}
}

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