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Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers

Smooth and finish surfaces of poured concrete, such as floors, walks, sidewalks, roads, or curbs using a variety of hand and power tools. Align forms for sidewalks, curbs, or gutters; patch voids; and use saws to cut expansion joints.

21 AI exposure
71 Human advantage
59 Market demand
44 AI leverage

Is Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers a safe career from AI?

Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers scores 21 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 71, which is high. This is work done with hands, with equipment, or in the same room as another person, and that is the part of any job that holds its value. Market demand scores 59 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 Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers pay

The median wage is $54,660 a year. The lower quarter earns under $46,020 and the upper quarter over $65,840. About 205,230 people do this work in the United States.

Where Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers can go next

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

Brickmasons and Blockmasons 87% of the skills carry over $61k median
Carpenters 84% of the skills carry over $59k 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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