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Agricultural Inspectors

Inspect agricultural commodities, processing equipment, and facilities, and fish and logging operations, to ensure compliance with regulations and laws governing health, quality, and safety.

68 AI exposure
48 Human advantage
53 Market demand
59 AI leverage

Is Agricultural Inspectors a safe career from AI?

Agricultural Inspectors scores 68 out of 100 for AI exposure, around the middle of the US labor market. Parts of this work overlap with what AI does well and parts do not.

Its human advantage score is 48. There is a real physical and in-person component to this work, alongside a good deal that could be done from anywhere. Market demand scores 53 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment roughly flat over ten years.

What Agricultural Inspectors pay

The median wage is $50,990 a year. The lower quarter earns under $42,740 and the upper quarter over $64,960. About 12,090 people do this work in the United States.

Where Agricultural Inspectors can go next

Occupations that share most of what this job already requires, ranked by how much carries over.

Transportation Inspectors 86% of the skills carry over $86k median
Environmental Compliance Inspectors 90% of the skills carry over $78k median
Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers 77% of the skills carry over $227k median
Commercial Pilots 77% of the skills carry over $123k median

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Where this comes from

Work content and transitions from O*NET, the US Department of Labor's occupational database. Wages and employment projections from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. AI exposure from published research measuring which occupations current AI capabilities overlap with. None of it is a forecast, and none of these numbers are ours: they are public data, put next to each other.

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