Also called: Central Bank Economist
Researches the economy to help the Federal Reserve decide interest rates.
Analyzes the latest jobs report, updates a forecast model, and writes a briefing that goes to the people who set interest rates for the whole country.
Estimate.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Doctorate (PhD), about 10 years after high school. A bachelor's in economics or math, often a couple of years as a research assistant at a Federal Reserve bank, then a PhD in economics.
Ways in: 4-year college, Graduate school. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Economics, Mathematics.
Growing slowly (about 1% over 10 years). Estimate.
Medium risk for 10 years. AI nowcasts the economy and drafts briefings; the Fed still wants PhD economists whose judgment it can question.
Classes: AP Macroeconomics, AP Calculus, AP Statistics.
Official data: O*NET occupation 19-3011.
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.