RetrainMap · Occupation-transition reports
No fake safe-lists.
Real routes, real prices, real sources.
A $29 one-time report on leaving your occupation: an honest reading of what the published AI-exposure research says about your job — including where the sources disagree — followed by the part nobody ships free: named retraining routes with published catalog prices, government wage records, and funding pointers. Every figure on this site names its source and its date.
The question everyone is typing
“Will AI take my job — and what do I do about it?” It is not an abstract worry. In announced U.S. layoffs in the first five months of 2026, employers cited AI in 87,714 cuts — 22% of all cuts announced in that period — and AI has led all cited reasons for five consecutive months through the July report.
Source: Challenger, Gray & Christmas monthly job-cut reports (YTD figure: May 2026 report, published 2026-06-04; streak: July 2026 report), checked 2026-08-15. Disclosure we think you deserve: Challenger sells outplacement services, so it benefits from attention to these numbers. They are announcement attributions, not verified causes. That is how every figure is treated here — named, dated, and flagged when the publisher has an interest.
A dozen websites will answer that question with a “risk score” and a list of “AI-safe jobs your skills transfer to.” Some charge $7.99–$19.99 for it. Before selling you anything, we tested whether that product can be honest. It cannot. Here is the measurement.
We ran the “safe pivot” engine. It returns almost nothing.
We joined the U.S. Department of Labor’s O*NET 30.3 related-occupations graph (18,460 occupation pairs) with the Felten–Raj–Seamans AI Occupational Exposure index, re-derived on 2026-08-15. The question: for workers in AI-exposed jobs, do their skills-adjacent occupations offer lower exposure?
Correlation between an occupation’s AI-exposure percentile and the mean exposure of its ~20 skills-related occupations, across all 782 scoreable occupations. Exposure runs nearly smoothly along the skills graph: jobs that share your skills mostly share your exposure.
Top-quartile-exposed occupations — 63.5% — have zero related occupations below median exposure. For most exposed workers, the “safe pivot next door” does not exist in the data. On average only 6.4% of their related occupations sit below median.
What sellers charge today for reports promising exactly that pivot list (observed prices $7.99–$19.99, checked 2026-08-15). We publish the measurement that undercuts the promise — and sell what survives it instead.
| Occupation | Employment (2024) | Median wage (2025) | BLS outlook 2024–34 | AI-exposure pctl (AIOE) | Related occs below median exposure |
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| Customer Service Representatives | 2,814,000 | $44,770 | Decline (−1% or lower) | 73rd | 1 of 19 — Cashiers, at a 27% pay cut, itself declining |
| Bookkeeping, Accounting & Auditing Clerks | 1,613,400 | $50,670 | Decline (−1% or lower) | 77th | 0 of 20 |
| Paralegals & Legal Assistants | 376,200 | $62,890 | Little or no change — disagrees with the index; we print both | 87th | 0 of 18 |
| Graphic Designers | 265,900 | $62,960 | Slower than average (1–2%) | 67th | 6 of 16 — mostly fine-art occupations; the strongest real destination carries no index score at all |
| Heavy & Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers control case | 2,235,100 | $58,640 | Average (3–4%) | 14th | 14 of 15 — adjacency works fine where exposure is low |
Derived 2026-08-15 from: O*NET 30.3 database (related occupations, job zones — onetcenter.org, CC BY 4.0) · Felten–Raj–Seamans AIOE appendix (github.com/AIOE-Data/AIOE) · wages/employment/outlook from O*NET OnLine, republishing BLS OEWS May 2025 and Employment Projections 2024–2034. Full method and every number: the source ledger. The free per-occupation write-ups: the Pivot Audits — 22 occupations.
So this report will not hand you a list of “AI-safe jobs adjacent to your skills.” The data says that list is close to empty for the people who most want it. The routes that genuinely reduce exposure are mostly retraining jumps — hands-on healthcare, skilled trades, licensed technical work. Those routes have real named programs, real published prices, real wage records. That is what we sell: the priced menu, not the fiction.
What the $29 report contains
One report per occupation, per state, assembled per order and checked by a person before it is sent. Four sections, all evidence:
1 · Your occupation, read honestly
Employment, median wage, and the official BLS 2024–34 outlook. All four public AI-exposure readings for your occupation — with each index’s own caveats, its vintage, and every case where the sources contradict each other, printed side by side.
2 · The adjacency truth
Your occupation’s ~20 skills-related occupations with their exposure, wages and outlooks — what a “safe pivot” engine would actually return for you, shown rather than promised.
3 · The priced escape menu
Named retraining routes reachable from your state: certificate programs with published catalog prices, registered apprenticeships that pay from day one, employer-paid training, BLS wage and outlook records per destination, program-level earnings records (College Scorecard / Census PSEO) where published — and whether WIOA money can cover it. Plus the rungs of the AI-credential registry that matter for your destination.
4 · What we cannot tell you
The limits page. What exposure indices measure, what they cannot predict, and the exact wording of the researchers’ own disclaimers. No forecast dressed as fact.
An excerpt from the real sample — the escape-menu ledger
| Route | Median wage (2025) | BLS outlook 2024–34 | Training, published price | Source, date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medical Assistant | $45,690 | ▲ Much faster than average (7%+) | Clinical Medical Assistant certificate: $5,491 in-district total, 2025–26 (Northeast Texas CC) · $8,999 incl. national CCMA exam fee (Brookdale CC, NJ) | ntcc.edu · brookdalecc.edu, fetched 2026-08-15 |
| Electrician (IBEW registered apprenticeship) | $63,190 | ▲ Much faster than average (7%+) | Paid from day one — first-year apprentice rate example: $19.25/hr (NYC Local 3, effective 2026-04-15); rates published per local | jibei.org rate sheet, fetched 2026-08-15 |
| Truck Driver (CDL-A) | $58,640 | → Average (3–4%) | $4,000–$6,000, 160 hours (~4 weeks); WIOA grants can cover up to 100%; employer-paid $0 routes exist | 160drivingacademy.com, fetched 2026-08-15 |
Check our work before you pay us
The free shelf is the same discipline as the paid report, in public. Start here.
One page per high-exposure occupation: the honest exposure read with disagreements shown, the real BLS numbers, what the “related occupations” pivot list actually offers, and priced escape routes.
Every major AI certification — price, format, prerequisites, launch and retirement dates — verified and dated per row, including what retired or launched this year.
Marketing claims set against the public record for heavily searched AI training programs — links to the filed documents, no characterizations, just both numbers.
One report. One price. No subscription.
one-time · your occupation · your state
- The four-section report described above, as a clean web page + PDF
- Assembled per order, human-checked, emailed within 24 hours — usually within hours
- Every figure carries its source and its fetch date
- 7-day, no-questions, full refund — one email
- If we cannot honestly cover your occupation, we refund immediately and say why
Why $29?
Established self-serve career-decision reports sell for $19.95–$99.90 (Truity $29 · CareerFitter $19.95–$39.95 · JobTest.org $24.90–$99.90, checked 2026-08-15). The $7.99–$19.99 tier below that sells the score-plus-safe-pivots product our own measurement says cannot be honest. We price at the bottom of the honest band, not the top of the junk band.
What $29 is not
Not a prediction of your future, not a coaching upsell, not a subscription you must remember to cancel. One document, built from the public record, that would take you a long weekend and thirty browser tabs to assemble yourself.
How delivery works
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Check out — $29
Card checkout through our payment provider. Your receipt arrives by email immediately.
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Tell us occupation + state
The order form takes under a minute: your occupation, your state, your email. It sends as a plain email — nothing else is collected.
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Report arrives by email
Assembled from the primary sources for your occupation and state, checked by a person, and emailed within 24 hours — usually within hours.
- ◉Every figure is sourced and dated
- Each number on this site names where it came from and when we fetched it. The full ledger, figure by figure, is public: sources & dates.
- ◭Where sources disagree, we print the disagreement
- Example, live on this page: paralegals sit at the 87th exposure percentile on the AIOE index, while the government’s own 2024–34 projection is “little or no change.” Both facts appear. Neither is smoothed away.
- ◈Exposure research is quoted with its own warnings
- The freshest exposure dataset (Anthropic Economic Index, May 2026 period) ships with this
instruction, which we honor and show you:
“This data alone cannot support conclusions about job displacement or job security, and cannot ground advice on career choices in either direction.” — served with the dataset, anthropic.com/economic-index, retrieved 2026-08-15
The AIOE index dates to 2021, before modern LLMs; the Eloundou et al. Science (2024) framework measures task overlap, not displacement. Scores are readings, not fortunes. - ◬Prices and wage records are facts, so that is what we sell
- Program catalog prices, apprenticeship wage sheets, BLS wage records and projections, program-level earnings records where published. Facts with dates — the only thing worth $29.
- ◎Refunds are unconditional for 7 days
- One email. No questions, no forms, no retention flow. Details in the plain-language terms.
Questions, answered plainly
Will this report tell me whether I will lose my job?
No — and be suspicious of anything that claims it can. Exposure indices measure how much of an occupation’s task content overlaps with what AI systems can do. Their own authors state they cannot ground career advice. What the report gives you is every published reading for your occupation, the disagreements between them, and the documented facts about routes out. The decision stays yours, made with real numbers.
Why is there no list of “safe jobs my skills transfer to”?
Because we measured it, and for most exposed occupations it is nearly empty: 63.5% of top-quartile-exposed occupations have zero skills-related occupations below median exposure (derived 2026-08-15; method on the sources page). Products that sell that list anyway are selling a contradiction. The routes that really lower exposure are retraining jumps — which is exactly what the report prices out.
What exactly arrives for $29?
A per-occupation, per-state report — web page and PDF — with the four sections shown above: the honest exposure reading, the adjacency truth, the priced escape menu (named programs, catalog prices, apprenticeship wage sheets, WIOA funding pointers, earnings records where published), and the limits page. The sample is a complete, real specimen of the product, and the product page lists the contents item by item.
Which occupations can you cover?
The free Pivot Audits already cover 22 of the biggest high-exposure occupations. The $29 report can be ordered for any of the 774 AIOE-scored occupations — same discipline, your numbers. If we cannot cover yours honestly, we tell you and refund in full, immediately.
How fast does it arrive, really?
Reports are assembled per order and checked by a person before sending — that check is the product. Delivery by email within 24 hours of your order form, usually within hours. If we ever cannot meet that, we say so before you pay, on this page.
What is your refund policy?
Seven days from delivery, full refund, no questions asked. Email info@steelyardclinical.com with your order email address. That is the whole process.
Is this career, financial, or legal advice?
No. It is a research report built from published public data, with sources and dates. It does not predict outcomes and does not tell you what to choose. Plain-language details: terms.
Who is behind RetrainMap?
RetrainMap is a product of Steelyard Ventures LLC, a North Carolina company. We build evidence products: documents where every figure can be traced to a primary source with a date. Contact: info@steelyardclinical.com.