As of June 2026, Crossing Guards and Flaggers has an AI-exposure score of 34/100 (Low exposure) on the AI-Safe Careers index, blending O*NET tasks, the Anthropic Economic Index, the Penn/OpenAI study, and BLS data. This is an estimate of task exposure, not a prediction of job loss.
Crossing Guards and Flaggers
More exposed than 4% of the roles we track. Median pay ~US$38,100. About 18,000 projected openings a year (BLS 2024–34 — growth plus replacement).
Pay & demand figures are US medians (BLS, in USD) — your local figures will differ. Your exposure score applies broadly.
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Your tasks, by AI exposure
No automatable tasks identified for this role — its real, individually-assessed tasks consistently read as augmentable (83%).
- Record license numbers of vehicles disregarding traffic signals, and report infractions to appropriate authorities.
- Communicate traffic and crossing rules and other information to students and adults.
- Inform drivers of detour routes through construction sites.
- Report unsafe behavior of children to school officials.
- Monitor traffic flow to locate safe gaps through which pedestrians can cross streets.
- Discuss traffic routing plans and control-point locations with superiors.
- Direct or escort pedestrians across streets, stopping traffic, as necessary.
- Guide or control vehicular or pedestrian traffic at such places as street and railroad crossings and construction sites.
- Direct traffic movement or warn of hazards, using signs, flags, lanterns, and hand signals.
- Learn the location and purpose of street traffic signs within assigned patrol areas.
- Stop speeding vehicles to warn drivers of traffic laws.
- Distribute traffic control signs and markers at designated points.
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