Interpreters and Translators — Occupational Outlook Handbook, with economic research on machine translation and translator demand

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United States employment of interpreters and translators is projected to grow 2% from 2024 to 2034, slower than the 4% average across occupations and revised down from a previous 3% projection, with about 7,500 openings a year projected mostly from replacement need; the reported median annual wage rose to USD 59,940 in 2024. Economic research summarised in the CEPR column reports slower growth in translator employment where machine translation use is higher, and reductions concentrated in routine rather than creative translation work. V55 verification basis: neither source was fetched. The BLS projection, the 4% comparison and the median wage were carried in search results attributing them to the Handbook, partly via industry reporting on the Handbook's revision; the elasticity and percentage-reduction figures appearing in retrieved summaries of the CEPR column were NOT traced to the underlying paper and are deliberately not quoted in this pack.

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