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Computer Network Support Specialists

Analyze, test, troubleshoot, and evaluate existing network systems, such as local area networks (LAN), wide area networks (WAN), cloud networks, servers, and other data communications networks. Perform network maintenance to ensure networks operate correctly with minimal interruption.

82 AI exposure
29 Human advantage
58 Market demand
58 AI leverage

Is Computer Network Support Specialists a safe career from AI?

Computer Network Support Specialists scores 82 out of 100 for AI exposure, which is high. A large share of this work is the kind current AI systems are measurably good at. That is not a prediction the job disappears, and the research does not support one. It means more of this role is likely to change than most.

Its human advantage score is 29, 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 58 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 Computer Network Support Specialists pay

The median wage is $73,340 a year. The lower quarter earns under $56,720 and the upper quarter over $95,710. About 146,450 people do this work in the United States.

Where Computer Network Support Specialists can go next

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

Computer and Information Research Scientists 84% of the skills carry over $141k median
Information Security Analysts 89% of the skills carry over $125k median
Telecommunications Engineering Specialists 80% of the skills carry over $130k median
Medical Dosimetrists 76% of the skills carry over $138k 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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