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Cabinetmakers and Bench Carpenters

Cut, shape, and assemble wooden articles or set up and operate a variety of woodworking machines, such as power saws, jointers, and mortisers to surface, cut, or shape lumber or to fabricate parts for wood products.

32 AI exposure
49 Human advantage
53 Market demand
40 AI leverage

Is Cabinetmakers and Bench Carpenters a safe career from AI?

Cabinetmakers and Bench Carpenters scores 32 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 49. 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 53 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment falling 2.9% over ten years.

What Cabinetmakers and Bench Carpenters pay

The median wage is $46,020 a year. The lower quarter earns under $38,240 and the upper quarter over $54,010. About 79,540 people do this work in the United States.

Where Cabinetmakers and Bench Carpenters 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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