fortune teller
Fortune tellers use their intuition and other skills to foretell future events about a person's life and provide clients with their interpretation. They often use various techniques such as card reading, palm reading or tea-leaves reading.
fortune teller fortune tellers use their intuition and other skills to foretell future events about a person's life and provide clients with their interpretation. They often use various techniques such as card reading, palm reading or tea-leaves reading. The role shows moderate AI exposure (0.61 on a 0-1 scale) — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. The most in-demand skills for the role include body language, fortune-telling techniques, rhetoric, occultism, give advice on personal matters.
Pay in the UK
UK: median £25,344 a year for Other elementary services occupations n.e.c. (ONS ASHE 2025, full-time)
UK jobs are grouped differently; this is the closest UK occupation group (ONS SOC 2020 9269). ONS rates this estimate precise. 2025 provisional figures; ONS revises them a year later. Source: ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (Open Government Licence)
Pay in India (occupation group)
Average monthly earnings of salaried employees in the occupation group “Service and sales workers” in India, from the Government of India's Periodic Labour Force Survey (January–December 2025). It covers everyone in this group, not only fortune teller, and it is not US pay converted to rupees.
Source: MoSPI (Government of India), Periodic Labour Force Survey Annual Report 2025, Table 51 — average wage/salary earnings of regular wage/salaried employees, NCO-2015 division 5. Official India data gives one average per occupation group: there are no official India figures for single careers, experience levels or cities. Read the report
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Frequently asked questions
What does fortune teller do?
Fortune tellers use their intuition and other skills to foretell future events about a person's life and provide clients with their interpretation. They often use various techniques such as card reading, palm reading or tea-leaves reading.
What skills does fortune teller need?
The most in-demand skills for this role include body language, fortune-telling techniques, rhetoric, occultism, give advice on personal matters, use consulting techniques. These are the skills O*NET identifies as most important for competent performance.
Will AI replace fortune teller?
Our AI-durability model gives fortune teller a score of 0.61 on a 0-1 scale (higher = more exposure). That places it at moderate AI exposure — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. Learning to work with AI tools rather than against them is the path forward.