Occupation

Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors

Supervise and coordinate the activities of ground crew in the loading, unloading, securing, and staging of aircraft cargo or baggage. May determine the quantity and orientation of cargo and compute aircraft center of gravity. May accompany aircraft as member of flight crew and monitor and handle cargo in flight, and assist and brief passengers on safety and emergency procedures. Includes loadmasters.

47 AI exposure

58 Human advantage

59 Market demand

52 AI leverage

Is Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors a safe career from AI?

Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors scores 47 out of 100 for AI exposure, which is low. Most of what this job involves is not the kind of task current AI systems are good at, largely because it happens in a physical place rather than on a screen.

Its human advantage score is 58. 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 59 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment growing 9.2% over ten years.

What Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors pay

The median wage is $63,940 a year. The lower quarter earns under $49,020 and the upper quarter over $79,600. About 10,160 people do this work in the United States.

Where Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors can go next

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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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