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Translator, interpreter
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Key facts
+2%jobs, 2025 to 2035
United StatesEmployment in this job is holding up or growing in the United States, but it is highly exposed to AI. AI exposure: high according to the ILO, very high according to the BLS. Employment change in the United States by 2035: +2% (BLS). Working well with AI is becoming an asset.
The job
Translates written documents or interprets spoken exchanges from one language to another.
136 job titles linked to this page
Titles from the European ESCO classification. They are also used for search.
- advocate interpreter
- africanist
- americanist
- anglist
- arabist
- baltist
- bilateral interpreter
- bilingual dictionaries lexicographer
- bilingual dictionary editor
- bilingual health advocate
- book translator
- business interpreter
- business sign language interpreter
- business translator
- caption editor
- caption writer
- captioner
- CART provider
- closed caption editor
- community interpreter
- community sign language interpreter
- computational lexicographer
- computational linguist
- conference interpreter
- conference sign language interpreter
- consecutive interpreter
- court interpreter
- court sign language interpreter
- dictionary editor
- editorial translator
- film subtitler
- financial translator
- forensic document examiner
- forensic handwriting expert
- freelance legal translator
- germanist
- graphologist
- graphologists
- guide interpreter
- guide sign language interpreter
- handwriting expert
- handwriting specialist
- hellenist
- indologist
- interpreter
- interpreter of sign language
- interpreters
- japanologist
- jurilinguist
- koreanist
- language leader
- language specialist
- language specialist consultant
- latinist
- lawyer linguist
- lawyer linguists
- legal interpreter
- legal linguist
- legal linguistic expert
- legal linguistic specialist
- legal linguistics expert
- legal linguistics specialist
- legal linguists
- legal translator
- lexicographer
- lexicologist
- linguist
- linguist lawyer
- linguistic coordinator
- linguistic lawyer
- linguistic lexicographer
- linguistic research scientist
- linguistic researcher
- linguistic scholar
- linguistic science researcher
- linguistic scientist
- linguistics lawyer
- linguists
- literary translator
- live subtitler
- localisation games tester
- localisation project manager
- localisation tester
- localisation translator
- localiser
- localiser QA tester
- localiser quality assurance tester
- localizer
- medical interpreter
- medical sign language interpreter
- medical translator
- philologist
- phonetics specialist
- police interpreter
- police sign language interpreter
- post-editor
- public service interpreter
- public service sign language interpreter
- remote interpreter
- remote sign language interpreter
- reviser
- romanist
- scandinavist
- scientific translator
- semitist
- senior lexicographer
- sign language interpreter
- simultaneous interpreter
- sinologist
- slavist
- social interpreter
- social sign language interpreter
- speech-to-text interpreter
- subtitler
- subtitler / adapter
- subtitler / adaptor
- subtitler and surtitler
- subtitlers
- subtitles adapter
- subtitles adaptor
- sworn interpreter
- sworn sign language interpreter
- sworn translator
- technical translator
- telephone interpreter
- television interpreter
- television sign language interpreter
- terminologist
- tibetologist
- translation project manager
- translator
- translator coordinator
- translator reviser
- translators
- video game translator
- video subtitler
Training
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Gauges
Risk 4/5 · High
AI exposureVery highBLS AI exposure category "very high" (2026), higher than the ILO 2025 index (high)
Employment outlookStableBLS, 2025-2035 projections (Interpreters and translators)
Hiring difficultyNot availableNo US indicator measures hiring difficulty job by job
PayAverageBLS, 2025 median annual wage: $60,170
EntryLongBLS, typical education needed for entry
No US indicator measures hiring difficulty job by job: this gauge stays empty. How countries are compared
Sources
- AI exposure categories and employment projections, 2025-2035 (XLSX file)Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States · August 2026 · official statistics
- Generative AI and Jobs: a refined global index of occupational exposureInternational Labour Organization and NASK · May 2025 · large survey
- Jobs in 2030: projections by occupational family (summary table)Dares and France Stratégie · March 2022 · official statistics
- Labour needs survey (BMO) 2026France Travail · 2026 · large survey
- EURES report on labour shortages and surpluses 2025, annexEuropean Labour Authority · June 2026 · official statistics
Checked on 27 October 2026.