Runs a community center that offers meals, classes, trips, and services for older adults.
Plans a month of activities — tai chi, computer classes, bingo — oversees a meals program, and writes a grant to fund rides to medical appointments.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 5 years after high school. Bachelor's in recreation, gerontology, or social work.
Ways in: 4-year college, On-the-job training. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Gerontology, Recreation Management, Social Work.
Growing faster than average (about 6% over 10 years).
Low risk for 10 years. AI helps with grants and scheduling; running meals, classes and trips for older adults stays human.
Classes: Business, Health, Speech.
Official data: O*NET occupation 11-9151.
Career Universe is an early version. Pay, training and AI-risk figures are estimates to start your own research, not verified facts. The research was written with AI research assistants, checked by validation scripts and spot-checked by hand. Check anything important with schools, employers and official sources. How the numbers work.