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Aviation Inspectors

Inspect aircraft, maintenance procedures, air navigational aids, air traffic controls, and communications equipment to ensure conformance with Federal safety regulations.

59 AI exposure
53 Human advantage
55 Market demand
56 AI leverage

Is Aviation Inspectors a safe career from AI?

Aviation Inspectors 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 53. 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 Aviation Inspectors pay

The median wage is $85,750 a year. The lower quarter earns under $58,650 and the upper quarter over $105,020. About 23,320 people do this work in the United States.

Where Aviation Inspectors 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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