Occupation
Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers
Pilot and navigate the flight of fixed-wing aircraft, usually on scheduled air carrier routes, for the transport of passengers and cargo. Requires Federal Air Transport certificate and rating for specific aircraft type used. Includes regional, national, and international airline pilots and flight instructors of airline pilots.
Is Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers a safe career from AI?
Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers scores 59 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 43. 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 63 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment growing 8.3% over ten years.
What Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers pay
The median wage is $226,600 a year. About 99,300 people do this work in the United States.
Where Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers can go next
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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.