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Professionals · code 2120

Mathematicians, actuaries and statisticians

Mathematicians, actuaries and statisticians conduct research and improve or develop mathematical, actuarial and statistical concepts, theories and operational methods and techniques and advise on or engage in their practical application in such fields as engineering, business and social and other sciences. Tasks include - (a) studying, improving and developing mathematical, actuarial and statistical theories and techniques; (b) advising on or applying mathematical principles, models and techniques to a wide range of tasks in the fields of engineering, natural, social or life sciences; (c) conducting logical analyses of management problems, especially in terms of input-output effectiveness, and formulating mathematical models of each problem usually for programming and solution by computer; (d) designing and putting into operation pension schemes and life, health, social and other types of insurance systems; (e) applying mathematics, statistics, probability and risk theory to assess potential financial impacts of future events; (f) planning and organizing surveys and other statistical collections, and designing questionnaires; (g) evaluating, processing, analysing and interpreting statistical data and preparing them for publication; (h) advising on or applying various data collection methods and statistical methods and techniques, and determining reliability of findings, especially in such fields as business or medicine as well as in other areas of natural, social or life sciences; (i) preparing scientific papers and reports; (j) supervising the work of mathematical, actuarial and statistical assistants and statistical clerks. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Actuary - Demographer - Mathematician - Operations research analyst - Statistician Some related occupations classified elsewhere: - Information systems analyst - 2511 - Actuarial assistant - 3314 - Mathematical assistant - 3314 - Statistical assistant - 3314 - Actuarial clerk - 4312 - Statistical clerk - 4312

Most of the tasks are affected. It ranks 401 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • demographer
  • gambling, betting, and lottery game developer
  • mathematician
  • gambling, betting, and lottery quality assurance engineer
  • actuarial consultant
  • statistician

Job titles from the EU's ESCO list. Search for any of them on the jobs page and you'll end up here.

43.8
Holds up
against AI Exposed: Gradient 3

AI could take on 56.2 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 56.2 = 43.8

That's the whole sum, and you can check it against the ILO's study.

7.2
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, averaged across 6 US jobs

4.4
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 9.8 · hand skill 1.4 · cramped spaces 2 · averaged

Kind of hands-on work · hands-on under 50 Less than half hands-on

Less than half of this job is hands-on. Robots still matter, but for a smaller part of the work, so we don't sort it any further.

estimated O*NET 31.0 BLS occupational crosswalk chain ISCO-08 to 2010 SOC (Aug 2012, rev. Jun 2015); 2010 to 2018 SOC (Nov 2017); O*NET-SOC 2019 taxonomy data 0.7-work-setting measures chosen by Frey & Osborne (2017) · the grouping is a sorting, not a measurement

What this number leaves out This job rates 7.2 out of 100 for how hands-on it is. The score above only looks at AI tools, not robots, but for work this far from the physical that matters less.

The tasks behind the score

The score is the average of these. A job is really a bundle of tasks, and an average can hide how uneven that bundle is.

The task AI could do most of scores 67.3, while the average is 56.2. A big gap means some of this job is wide open to AI and some of it barely at all. That's quite different from a job where everything sits somewhere in the middle, even when the averages match.

  1. 67.3

    Planning and organizing surveys and other statistical collections, and designing questionnaires

    Medium
  2. 63.3

    Designing and putting into operation pension schemes and life, health, social and other types of insurance systems

    Medium
  3. 63

    Evaluating, processing, analysing, and interpreting statistical data and preparing them for publication

    Medium
  4. 58.3

    Advising on or applying various data collection methods and statistical methods and techniques, and determining reliability of findings, especially in such fields as business or medicine as well as in other areas of natural, social or life sciences

    Medium
  5. 56.8

    Applying mathematics, statistics, probability and risk theory to assess potential financial impacts of future events

    Medium
  6. 56

    Advising on or applying mathematical principles, models and techniques to a wide range of tasks in the fields of engineering, natural, social or life sciences

    Medium
  7. 55

    Conducting logical analyses of management problems, especially in terms of input-output effectiveness, and formulating mathematical models of each problem usually for programmeming and solution by computer

    Medium
  8. 54.3

    Studying, improving and developing mathematical, actuarial and statistical theories and techniques

    Medium
  9. 52.8

    Preparing scientific papers and reports

    Medium
  10. 35

    Supervising the work of mathematical, actuarial and statistical assistants and statistical clerks.

    Low

10 tasks · the High to Very Low labels are the ILO's

from the source Working Paper 140, Generative AI and Jobs 2025 index data 0.7-work-setting

Helped, or replaced?

The score above can't tell a tool that makes you faster from one that does the task instead of you. Jobs and Skills Australia looked at those two things separately, and this is their result, matched to this job.

One Australian job matches, but only partly: not everyone in it does this job. Treat the numbers as a rough guide.

AI helps you
77
AI does it for you
58

Helping wins by 19 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 2241

Compared with similar jobs

There are 92 jobs in the “Professionals” group, averaging 61.5. This one is below that.