Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary
Teach courses in drama, music, and the arts including fine and applied art, such as painting and sculpture, or design and crafts. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.
93,560 people do this job in the US. $78,620 a year.
of the working time. Estimate.
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- 7%
- 12%
Measured, from Anthropic's usage data (2025). Counts help on part of a task.
On the chosen pace and reliability. Estimate.
Share of the working time within reach, now to 2030
What each choice means: , , , , . Every pace starts from .
At this date and pace, models finish tasks up to 4.4 h long four times in five.
How far this has come
With GPT-4, measured in March 2023, 0% of this job's working time was within reach at . With Claude 3.7 Sonnet, measured in February 2025, 0%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 16%. Today's estimate: 22%.
A backcast: today's task data with the best model METR had measured by each date. It shows how fast the models have moved, not what anyone forecast at the time.
The tasks
Sorted by . 28 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conduct research in a particular field of knowledge and publish findings in professional journals, books, or electronic media.Done more than yearly by most who do it. AI observed on this task. | 16% | 3.5 work weeks4.2 work days to 2.4 work months | 0%Half by Jan 2030 | |
| Perform administrative duties, such as serving as department head.Done more than weekly by most who do it. | 14% | 6.7 h3.3 h to 2.1 work days | 10%Half by May 2027 | |
| Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, course materials, and methods of instruction.Done more than yearly by most who do it. AI observed on this task. | 11% | 1.7 work days3.3 h to 4.2 work days | 2%Half by Feb 2028 | |
| Write grant proposals to procure external research funding.Done yearly or less by most who do it. | 6% | 1.3 work weeks2.1 work days to 3.3 work weeks | 0%Half by Jan 2029 | |
| Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.Done more than monthly by most who do it. AI observed on this task. | 5% | 5 h1.7 h to 1.7 work days | 17%Half by Apr 2027 | |
| Prepare students for performances, exams, or assessments.Done daily by most who do it. | 5% | 1.7 h38 min to 5 h | 66%Half by now | |
| Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as acting techniques, fundamentals of music, and art history.Done daily by most who do it. | 4% | 2.5 h1.3 h to 5 h | 70%Half by now | |
| Organize performance groups and direct their rehearsals.Done more than weekly by most who do it. | 4% | 2.5 h1.3 h to 5 h | Stays with people | |
| Explain and demonstrate artistic techniques.Done daily by most who do it. | 4% | 38 min17 min to 1.3 h | Stays with people | |
| Evaluate and grade students' class work, performances, projects, assignments, and papers.Done more than weekly by most who do it. AI observed on this task. | 3% | 1.3 h25 min to 2.5 h | 87%Half by now | |
| Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.Done more than weekly by most who do it. | 3% | 3.3 h1.7 h to 1 work day | 43%Half by Oct 2026 | |
| Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.Done daily by most who do it. | 3% | 1.1 h38 min to 1.7 h | Stays with people |
Within reach, per task: the share of the task's time whose instances are short enough for a model to finish at the chosen date, pace and reliability. Half by: the date half of that time comes within reach.
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