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Using hand-collected data on robo-advisors, I study the impact of robo-advisors on the corresponding high-skilled (financial advisors) labor market. I find that robo-advisors and financial advisors are complements. This complementarity can be explained by the expansion in market for financial services through (1) an increase in financial advisors at firms that directly compete with robo-advisors in terms of services provided (relative to the rest of the firms) and (2) an increase in investor-level demand for financial advisors. I also find that the observed increase in the number of financial advisors is due to a reduction in separations and an increase in hirings. This is associated with an increase in the average experience of a financial advisor with no e