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Automotive Engineering Technicians

Assist engineers in determining the practicality of proposed product design changes and plan and carry out tests on experimental test devices or equipment for performance, durability, or efficiency.

61 AI exposure
48 Human advantage
55 Market demand
55 AI leverage

Is Automotive Engineering Technicians a safe career from AI?

Automotive Engineering Technicians scores 61 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 55 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 Automotive Engineering Technicians pay

The median wage is $68,730 a year. The lower quarter earns under $57,330 and the upper quarter over $82,980. About 37,450 people do this work in the United States.

Where Automotive Engineering Technicians can go next

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

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Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers 83% of the skills carry over $107k median
Ship Engineers 84% of the skills carry over $101k 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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