{
  "source": "Cooked Index — occupational AI risk register",
  "page": "https://cookedindex.com/jobs/self-enrichment-teachers/",
  "methodology": "https://cookedindex.com/methodology",
  "notice": "Verdicts are re-examined as evidence accumulates. Re-fetch before relying on this; the page above always carries the current score.",
  "scored_at": "2026-08-11",
  "model": "claude-opus-5",
  "occupation": {
    "title": "Self-Enrichment Teachers",
    "soc_code": "25-3021",
    "category": "Education",
    "us_employment": 332110,
    "median_annual_wage": 46800
  },
  "verdict": "EXPOSED",
  "risk_resistance": 50,
  "contested": false,
  "near_boundary": false,
  "dimensions": {
    "task_resistance": 11,
    "embodiment": 14,
    "liability_shield": 2,
    "trust_premium": 15,
    "judgment_accountability": 8
  },
  "reasoning": {
    "task_resistance": "Demonstrating a wheel-throwing pull, adjusting a student's fingering mid-scale, or catching a collapsing warrior-two in real time can't be pushed to a screen, but curriculum design, level-appropriate exercise sequencing, drill generation, and progress tracking — a large share of the prep hours — are already handled by free apps and generated content, which is what holds this at 11 rather than the high teens.",
    "embodiment": "The work happens in studios, dojos, pools, kitchens, and community-center rooms with your hands on clay, instruments, or students' shoulders, in spaces you often don't control (shared rooms, outdoor classes, borrowed equipment) — short of the 17+ reserved for jobs where the physical environment is actively hazardous or unpredictable.",
    "liability_shield": "Anyone can rent a room and advertise lessons; there is no state license, no board, and no protected title for teaching guitar or watercolor, and the 2 rather than 0 reflects only the narrow slice — swim instruction, yoga, martial arts — where insurers or venues demand a private certification (RYA, ACE, Red Cross WSI) that no statute actually requires.",
    "trust_premium": "Students re-enroll for you specifically — parents pick a piano teacher by reputation and referral, adults stay with the same yoga instructor for years, and word-of-mouth is the entire client-acquisition channel — but it sits at 15 rather than 19 because group classes, park-district catalogs, and franchised studios do place warm bodies in front of students who signed up for the subject, not the person.",
    "judgment_accountability": "You decide when a student is ready for a harder piece, how to modify a pose for a bad knee, and how to keep a distracted eight-year-old at the keyboard — real discretion exercised weekly — but the consequences of a wrong call are a slow month or a lost student, not a diagnosis or a fatality, and there is no external body reviewing your decisions."
  },
  "rationale": "The modal self-enrichment teacher — guitar lessons, yoga, pottery, conversational Spanish, cooking classes, test prep — sells live presence, physical correction, and group energy, which AI cannot replicate in a studio. But the content layer is already commoditized: lesson plans, exercise sequences, vocabulary drills, and practice materials are free and instant, and AI language tutors, form-checking fitness apps, and on-demand video courses eat directly into the beginner-instruction market that supports much of this workforce. There is no license protecting the role, so competition is purely about who students want to show up for.",
  "outlook": "Demand for live classes as social and physical experience holds up, but solo beginner instruction priced by the hour gets squeezed hard by apps and video — expect the field to consolidate around teachers with a studio, a cohort, or a specialty.",
  "what_would_raise_it": {
    "levers": [
      {
        "dimension": "trust_premium",
        "change": "Continued growth of in-person social-hobby spend as a deliberate antidote to screen time — visible already in run clubs, ceramics studio waitlists, and adult rec-league enrollment. If studios market explicitly on 'taught by a human, no app' and consumers keep paying a premium for the room rather than the curriculum, the beginner tier stops being the price-sensitive floor.",
        "plausibility": "already happening",
        "would_add": 3
      },
      {
        "dimension": "trust_premium",
        "change": "Chaperone/duty-of-care expectations for minors: if state child-safety rules or insurer requirements make a background-checked adult physically present mandatory for youth music, swim, gymnastics, and martial arts instruction, the human becomes a compliance requirement rather than a preference. Youth swim and gymnastics already operate this way via USA Swimming / USA Gymnastics safe-sport rules.",
        "plausibility": "plausible",
        "would_add": 2
      },
      {
        "dimension": "task_resistance",
        "change": "Task-mix shift within the genuinely two-tier segments: if AI absorbs beginner scales, vocabulary drill, and rep counting, the surviving paid hour is diagnosis of an individual's bad habit, injury-aware modification, performance/audition prep, and motivational adherence. This is real for music, movement, and language, and largely fake for crafts-as-entertainment.",
        "plausibility": "already happening",
        "would_add": 3
      },
      {
        "dimension": "liability_shield",
        "change": "Insurer-driven credentialing in the physical-risk subset: if studio liability carriers require documented certification (RYT-500 for yoga, ACE/NASM for fitness, WSI for swim) naming the individual instructor on the policy, a specific human becomes legally attached to the session. Partly in force already for gym chains and some yoga studios.",
        "plausibility": "plausible",
        "would_add": 3
      },
      {
        "dimension": "judgment_accountability",
        "change": "Formal scope-of-practice and injury-screening duties: if state boards or professional bodies (e.g., Yoga Alliance, Pilates Method Alliance) impose documented intake screening and referral-out obligations for students with medical conditions, the instructor owns a consequential triage call under ambiguity.",
        "plausibility": "plausible",
        "would_add": 2
      }
    ],
    "ceiling_note": "Realistic ceiling is roughly 60-65. The gains concentrate in the physical-risk and youth segments; the pure content teachers — conversational language, test prep, hobby coding, adult craft one-offs — have no credentialing body, no injury liability, and no chaperone requirement, and no plausible route to one. For that half of the 332,110, none of these levers apply."
  },
  "adjudication": null,
  "employment_history": {
    "points": [
      {
        "y": 2019,
        "emp": 252780,
        "wage": 39190
      },
      {
        "y": 2020,
        "emp": 222700,
        "wage": 39960
      },
      {
        "y": 2021,
        "emp": 216910,
        "wage": 43580
      },
      {
        "y": 2022,
        "emp": 248150,
        "wage": 44110
      },
      {
        "y": 2023,
        "emp": 272110,
        "wage": 45330
      },
      {
        "y": 2024,
        "emp": 308520,
        "wage": 45590
      },
      {
        "y": 2025,
        "emp": 332110,
        "wage": 46800
      }
    ],
    "from": 2019,
    "to": 2025,
    "change_pct": 31.4,
    "comparable_from": 2019,
    "spans_soc_revision": false
  },
  "pivots": [],
  "license": "https://cookedindex.com/terms"
}