Occupation

Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door

Install, repair, and maintain mechanical regulating and controlling devices, such as electric meters, gas regulators, thermostats, safety and flow valves, and other mechanical governors.

45 AI exposure

61 Human advantage

58 Market demand

52 AI leverage

Is Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door a safe career from AI?

Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door scores 45 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 61, 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 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 Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door pay

The median wage is $74,690 a year. The lower quarter earns under $53,060 and the upper quarter over $97,400. About 46,920 people do this work in the United States.

Where Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door can go next

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

Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers 86% of the skills carry over $107k median

Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay 87% of the skills carry over $101k median

Electricians 82% of the skills carry over $62k median

Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters 82% of the skills carry over $63k 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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