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How Replaceable Am I?

Every other tool scores your job title, which tells you nothing — two people with the same title do completely different work. This one scores you.

Ask the internet whether AI is coming for your job and you get an average for your job title. That is the wrong unit. A title is a label attached to wildly different jobs — two people who both write “Operations Manager” on LinkedIn can share almost no daily work — and replacement doesn't happen to titles anyway. It happens to people whose particular contribution turns out to be easy to reproduce.

So this asks about you instead: how deep your skills go, how current they are, whether you've actually learned anything recently, how far your range extends, and how fluent you are with the tools that are changing your field. Five answers, one score.

Depth that's genuinely hard to hire for — not just how busy you are.
Takes a while to ramp
Measured against what your field is hiring for now, not what it wanted three years ago.
About par
Your own AI fluency — using these tools makes you harder to replace, not easier.
Occasionally
New capability, not repetition of what you already knew.
Some
Operating across adjacent functions is hard to automate and hard to replace.
Sometimes
Used to name the area you're most exposed in. It does not change the score.
Your replacement risk
40/100
Medium risk · most exposed: General execution

You're not exposed, but nothing here is protecting you either. This is the band that quietly becomes High over a couple of years of staying still.

What this is not. It cannot tell you how automatable your role is — nobody honestly can, and the tools claiming to are reading an average off your job title. It tells you how replaceable you are within whatever role you hold, which is the part you can actually do something about.

What the five inputs are doing

They aren't weighted equally. In descending order of how much they move your score:

01
Skill depth — how hard you are to replace
The heaviest input, because replacement turns on exactly this question. Depth that takes months to rebuild protects you; volume of work does not. Being busy and being irreplaceable are unrelated, and conflating them is the most common way people misjudge their own position.
02
Skill freshness — measured against today's market
Not against what you knew when you joined. Roughly half of technical skills lose most of their market value within about five years, and the decay is invisible from inside a role you're still performing well in.
03
AI fluency — which cuts the opposite way to what people assume
Using AI heavily makes you harderto replace, not easier. The clearest pattern in the 2026 data is that the risk sits with people who don't use these tools, not with people who do — professionals with AI skills are commanding meaningful pay premiums rather than being first out.
04
Recent upskilling — new capability, not repetition
Ten years of experience and one year of experience repeated ten times score very differently here, and only one of them is protective.
05
Cross-functional range — the quiet one
The lightest weight of the five, but it compounds. Work that spans teams carries context that isn't written down anywhere, which is precisely the kind of work that resists both automation and handover.

Where the anxiety is, in numbers.In IIM Ahmedabad's 2024 study of Indian white-collar workers, 68% feared their role could be automated within five years — including among those who had already adopted AI tools and been trained on them. A LinkedIn survey published in January 2026 found 84% of Indian professionals felt unprepared to find a new job, while 72% were looking anyway.

Both numbers describe a feeling. Neither tells you where you stand, which is the gap this is for.

Reading your band

Low (0–34). Hard to replace on your own answers. Re-check yearly — this band decays quietly if you stop moving. Medium (35–64). Nothing is exposing you, but nothing is protecting you either. This is the band that becomes High after two uneventful years. High (65+). Most of what you do could be picked up by someone or something else without much of a gap. It is a portfolio problem rather than a verdict on your work, and it is the most fixable of the three.

A note on the arithmetic: the score is built from five inputs that each contribute a maximum, so a genuinely worst-case set of answers lands around 80 rather than 100. Treat it as a position on a scale, not a probability that you'll be replaced.

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What to do about a score you don't like

The score names your most exposed area on purpose — one thing, not five. Attack that first; the others move more slowly and matter less. If the answer was AI fluency, the fix is unglamorous and fast: use the tools on real work in your own field until you know where they break, which is the knowledge that actually transfers. If it was depth, the fix is slower and involves saying no to breadth for a while.

Worth being clear about the limits of a five-question tool: this measures the part of your position you control. It says nothing about whether your employer is healthy, whether your pay has kept up, or how quickly you could move if you had to — those are separate questions with separate answers, and they interact. The longer read on checking your own AI risk goes deeper on the reasoning, and the Career Health Score puts replaceability next to the other five.

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Figures on this page are directional estimates based on published market data and Pathwise's own model — not financial, legal, or career advice. Individual outcomes vary.