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Occupation

Bus Drivers, Transit and Intercity

Drive bus or motor coach, including regular route operations, charters, and private carriage. May assist passengers with baggage. May collect fares or tickets.

49 AI exposure
37 Human advantage
61 Market demand
44 AI leverage

Is Bus Drivers, Transit and Intercity a safe career from AI?

Bus Drivers, Transit and Intercity scores 49 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 37, which is low. Most of this role can be done through a screen, and that is the half of the labor market AI has reached first. 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 roughly flat over ten years.

What Bus Drivers, Transit and Intercity pay

The median wage is $57,440 a year. The lower quarter earns under $46,050 and the upper quarter over $69,090. About 148,980 people do this work in the United States.

Where Bus Drivers, Transit and Intercity can go next

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

Subway and Streetcar Operators 90% of the skills carry over $85k median
Commercial Pilots 77% of the skills carry over $123k median
Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers 67% of the skills carry over $93k 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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