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Crossing Guards and Flaggers

Guide or control vehicular or pedestrian traffic at such places as streets, schools, railroad crossings, or construction sites.

50 AI exposure
46 Human advantage
59 Market demand
48 AI leverage

Is Crossing Guards and Flaggers a safe career from AI?

Crossing Guards and Flaggers scores 50 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 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 Crossing Guards and Flaggers pay

The median wage is $37,700 a year. The lower quarter earns under $34,280 and the upper quarter over $46,920. About 90,180 people do this work in the United States.

Where Crossing Guards and Flaggers can go next

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

Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners 73% of the skills carry over $35k median
Fast Food and Counter Workers 70% of the skills carry over $30k median
First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives 48% of the skills carry over $106k median
Detectives and Criminal Investigators 50% 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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