Occupation

Calibration Technologists and Technicians

Execute or adapt procedures and techniques for calibrating measurement devices, by applying knowledge of measurement science, mathematics, physics, chemistry, and electronics, sometimes under the direction of engineering staff. Determine measurement standard suitability for calibrating measurement devices. May perform preventive maintenance on equipment. May perform corrective actions to address identified calibration problems.

68 AI exposure

34 Human advantage

56 Market demand

53 AI leverage

Is Calibration Technologists and Technicians a safe career from AI?

Calibration Technologists and Technicians scores 68 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 34, 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 56 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 Calibration Technologists and Technicians pay

The median wage is $65,040 a year. The lower quarter earns under $52,250 and the upper quarter over $83,600. About 15,320 people do this work in the United States.

Where Calibration Technologists and Technicians 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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