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Captains, Mates, and Pilots of Water Vessels

Command or supervise operations of ships and water vessels, such as tugboats and ferryboats. Required to hold license issued by U.S. Coast Guard.

53 AI exposure
56 Human advantage
57 Market demand
54 AI leverage

Is Captains, Mates, and Pilots of Water Vessels a safe career from AI?

Captains, Mates, and Pilots of Water Vessels 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 56. 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 57 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 Captains, Mates, and Pilots of Water Vessels pay

The median wage is $85,540 a year. The lower quarter earns under $60,800 and the upper quarter over $124,530. About 35,390 people do this work in the United States.

Where Captains, Mates, and Pilots of Water Vessels can go next

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

Commercial Pilots 88% of the skills carry over $123k median
Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers 82% of the skills carry over $93k median
Transit and Railroad Police 82% of the skills carry over $82k 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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