Acupuncturists
SOC Code: 29-1291
Acupuncturistss maintain and follow standard quality, safety, environmental, and infection control policies and procedures. This career typically requires extensive preparation (4+ years). With an AI-proof score of 95.6/100, this role has high resilience to automation. Key skills include Active Listening, Social Perceptiveness, Reading Comprehension.
AI-Proof Score: 95.6 — Very High
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Median Salary
$78,140
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Job Growth
6.8%
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Training Time
Extensive preparation (4+ years)
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Job Zone
Zone 5 / 5
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Training Cost
~$80,000
Key Skills
- •Active Listening
- •Social Perceptiveness
- •Reading Comprehension
- •Speaking
- •Critical Thinking
- •Service Orientation
Common Tasks
- ✓Maintain and follow standard quality, safety, environmental, and infection control policies and procedures.
- ✓Treat patients using tools, such as needles, cups, ear balls, seeds, pellets, or nutritional supplements.
- ✓Adhere to local, state, and federal laws, regulations, and statutes.
- ✓Identify correct anatomical and proportional point locations based on patients' anatomy and positions, contraindications, and precautions related to treatments, such as intradermal needles, moxibustion, electricity, guasha, or bleeding.
- ✓Develop individual treatment plans and strategies.
Training & Resources
Why AI-Proof?
- ✅Requires hands-on physical presence and dexterity
- ✅Demands human empathy, judgment, and trust
- ✅Operates in unpredictable, variable environments
- ✅Social and regulatory barriers to full automation