Correctional Officers and Jailers
SOC Code: 33-3012
Correctional Officers and Jailerss conduct head counts to ensure that each prisoner is present. This career typically requires moderate-term on-the-job training (months to 1 year). With an AI-proof score of 76.3/100, this role has high resilience to automation. Key skills include Monitoring, Social Perceptiveness, Active Listening.
AI-Proof Score: 76.3 — High
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Median Salary
$57,970
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Job Growth
-7.8%
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Training Time
Moderate-term on-the-job training (months to 1 year)
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Job Zone
Zone 2 / 5
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Training Cost
~$5,000
Key Skills
- •Monitoring
- •Social Perceptiveness
- •Active Listening
- •Speaking
- •Critical Thinking
- •Reading Comprehension
Common Tasks
- ✓Conduct head counts to ensure that each prisoner is present.
- ✓Inspect conditions of locks, window bars, grills, doors, and gates at correctional facilities to ensure security and help prevent escapes.
- ✓Monitor conduct of prisoners in housing unit, or during work or recreational activities, according to established policies, regulations, and procedures, to prevent escape or violence.
- ✓Search prisoners and vehicles and conduct shakedowns of cells for valuables and contraband, such as weapons or drugs.
- ✓Guard facility entrances to screen visitors.
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