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Camera Operators, Television, Video, and Film

Operate television, video, or film camera to record images or scenes for television, video, or film productions.

53 AI exposure
41 Human advantage
54 Market demand
48 AI leverage

Is Camera Operators, Television, Video, and Film a safe career from AI?

Camera Operators, Television, Video, and Film scores 53 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 41. 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 54 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 Camera Operators, Television, Video, and Film pay

The median wage is $68,810 a year. The lower quarter earns under $48,060 and the upper quarter over $102,400. About 24,460 people do this work in the United States.

Where Camera Operators, Television, Video, and Film can go next

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

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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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