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Construction and Building Inspectors

Inspect structures using engineering skills to determine structural soundness and compliance with specifications, building codes, and other regulations. Inspections may be general in nature or may be limited to a specific area, such as electrical systems or plumbing.

70 AI exposure
50 Human advantage
57 Market demand
61 AI leverage

Is Construction and Building Inspectors a safe career from AI?

Construction and Building Inspectors scores 70 out of 100 for AI exposure, around the middle of the US labor market. Parts of this work overlap with what AI does well and parts do not.

Its human advantage score is 50. 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 Construction and Building Inspectors pay

The median wage is $72,120 a year. The lower quarter earns under $57,300 and the upper quarter over $92,330. About 137,210 people do this work in the United States.

Where Construction and Building Inspectors can go next

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

Occupational Health and Safety Specialists 87% of the skills carry over $84k median
First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives 81% of the skills carry over $106k median
Detectives and Criminal Investigators 81% of the skills carry over $94k 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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