Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education vs Teaching Assistants, Postsecondary
Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education carries the higher exposed share at 35.3% against 33.0%, a gap of 2.3 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.
| Occupation | Exposed | Assisted | Untouched | Capability | Friction | Median pay | Rank | Band |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education | 35.3% | 20.4% | 44.3% | 0.56 | 0.43 | $72,040 | 361 | exposed |
| Teaching Assistants, Postsecondary | 33.0% | 19.4% | 47.7% | 0.52 | 0.40 | $42,910 | 396 | exposed |
What stands in the way, in each
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.
Teaching Assistants, Postsecondary: the dominant friction is that it runs on knowledge of the organisation that a model cannot hold. Capability sits at 0.52 of 1 and friction at 0.40 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.