Public Safety Telecommunicators

Most exposed tasks

Highest structured exposure values in this role’s task mix — the work AI systems can already do most of.

• Receive incoming telephone or alarm system calls regarding emergency and non-emergency police and fire service, emergency ambulance service, information, and after-hours calls for departments within a city.98
• Record details of calls, dispatches, and messages.98
• Enter, update, and retrieve information from teletype networks and computerized data systems regarding such things as wanted persons, stolen property, vehicle registration, and stolen vehicles.98

Most durable tasks

Lowest exposure — typically judgment, relationships, physical presence, or accountability. This is the human moat.

The current data release does not distinguish durable tasks for this role.

Task exposure values and classifications come from the versioned data release — they are structured data, not model output. Bars show exposure contribution relative to this role’s task mix.

What this means

A score of 87 puts Public Safety Telecommunicators in the most-exposed quarter of analyzed occupations. In practice, exposure this high is about the mix: 18 of 18 analyzed tasks lean automatable, 0 augmentable, and 0 durable. The useful question isn’t “will AI take this job” — it’s which tasks go first, which get faster, and where to reposition time. That’s what the personalized report maps against your actual week.

One next move: audit how much of your week sits in the exposed tasks above — then shift time toward the durable set or investigate the adjacent roles below.

Lower-exposure adjacent roles

Shown only when the target is at least 10 points lower under the same score version and skill overlap is at least 50%. These are adjacent roles with lower task exposure — not guaranteed “safe careers”.

Labor-market context

• $53,040median wage
• 102,500employed
• 10,700annual openings
• +3.5%projected growth

Context only — labor statistics are not inputs to the exposure score. See methodology.

Related roles

Adjacent by skills or family — no exposure claim implied.

• Dispatchers, Except Police, Fire, and Ambulance 86
• Switchboard Operators, Including Answering Service 84
• Paramedic 18
• Ambulance Drivers and Attendants, Except Emergency Medical Technicians 47
• Telephone Operators 87
• Airfield Operations Specialists 70

FAQ — Public Safety Telecommunicators

What does a score of 87 mean for a Public Safety Telecommunicators?

It means that, weighted across the 18 tasks we analyzed for this role, the task mix sits at 87 on a 0–100 exposure scale — in the most-exposed quarter of analyzed occupations. It measures task exposure to current and near-term AI capabilities, not the probability of losing a job.

Which tasks in this role are most exposed to AI?

The highest-exposure tasks are: Receive incoming telephone or alarm system calls regarding emergency and non-emergency police and fire service, emergency ambulance service, information, and after-hours calls for departments within a city; Record details of calls, dispatches, and messages; Enter, update, and retrieve information from teletype networks and computerized data systems regarding such things as wanted persons, stolen property, vehicle registration, and stolen vehicles. Exposure is scored per task from structured data, not generated by a language model.

Which parts of this job are most durable?

The current data release does not distinguish durable tasks for this role.

Is this score personalized to me?

No — this page shows the occupation-level baseline. Two people with the same title often do different work. The $9 personalized report recalculates the score from the tasks you actually do and builds a concrete 7/30/90-day plan around them.