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Cutters and Trimmers, Hand

Use hand tools or hand-held power tools to cut and trim a variety of manufactured items, such as carpet, fabric, stone, glass, or rubber.

41 AI exposure
31 Human advantage
34 Market demand
37 AI leverage

Is Cutters and Trimmers, Hand a safe career from AI?

Cutters and Trimmers, Hand scores 41 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 31, 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 34 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment falling 18.9% over ten years.

What Cutters and Trimmers, Hand pay

The median wage is $38,800 a year. The lower quarter earns under $33,860 and the upper quarter over $48,790. About 7,070 people do this work in the United States.

Where Cutters and Trimmers, Hand can go next

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

Molders, Shapers, and Casters, Except Metal and Plastic 83% of the skills carry over $46k median
Graders and Sorters, Agricultural Products 85% of the skills carry over $35k median
Petroleum Pump System Operators, Refinery Operators, and Gaugers 70% of the skills carry over $98k 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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