The Task Exposure Indexv2026.Q3
Comparison

Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary vs Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education

Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary carries the higher exposed share at 38.7% against 35.3%, a gap of 3.5 points. The difference is driven by both capability and friction: the two jobs differ in what a system can produce and in what stops it, by roughly the same amount. Release v2026.Q3.

OccupationExposedAssistedUntouchedCapabilityFrictionMedian payRankBand
Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary38.7%20.8%40.4%0.600.40$78,620292exposed
Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education35.3%20.4%44.3%0.560.43$72,040361exposed

What stands in the way, in each

Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary: the dominant friction is that it runs on knowledge of the organisation that a model cannot hold. Capability sits at 0.60 of 1 and friction at 0.40 of 1.

Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education: the dominant friction is that it runs on knowledge of the organisation that a model cannot hold. Capability sits at 0.56 of 1 and friction at 0.43 of 1.

Capability asks whether a generally available system can produce the work product at all. Friction asks what stops it finishing the job: physical work, being present, being accountable, unseen context, or the cost of checking the output. The rubric is here.

Read each in full

Exposure is not displacement. A higher score does not rank two jobs by how safe they are, and nothing here models adoption, employment or pay.