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Carpet Installers

Lay and install carpet from rolls or blocks on floors. Install padding and trim flooring materials.

26 AI exposure
46 Human advantage
38 Market demand
35 AI leverage

Is Carpet Installers a safe career from AI?

Carpet Installers scores 26 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 46. 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 38 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment falling 16.4% over ten years.

What Carpet Installers pay

The median wage is $49,850 a year. The lower quarter earns under $39,140 and the upper quarter over $65,530. About 14,980 people do this work in the United States.

Where Carpet Installers can go next

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

Brickmasons and Blockmasons 79% of the skills carry over $61k median
Glaziers 82% of the skills carry over $55k median
Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers 71% of the skills carry over $93k median
Petroleum Pump System Operators, Refinery Operators, and Gaugers 74% of the skills carry over $98k 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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