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Avionics Technicians

Install, inspect, test, adjust, or repair avionics equipment, such as radar, radio, navigation, and missile control systems in aircraft or space vehicles.

59 AI exposure
40 Human advantage
61 Market demand
50 AI leverage

Is Avionics Technicians a safe career from AI?

Avionics Technicians 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 40. 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 61 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment growing 9.4% over ten years.

What Avionics Technicians pay

The median wage is $81,390 a year. The lower quarter earns under $65,170 and the upper quarter over $98,990. About 20,900 people do this work in the United States.

Where Avionics Technicians can go next

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

Ship Engineers 86% of the skills carry over $101k median
Commercial Pilots 76% of the skills carry over $123k median
Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers 85% of the skills carry over $107k 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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