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Cutting and Slicing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

Set up, operate, or tend machines that cut or slice materials, such as glass, stone, cork, rubber, tobacco, food, paper, or insulating material.

38 AI exposure
54 Human advantage
54 Market demand
45 AI leverage

Is Cutting and Slicing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders a safe career from AI?

Cutting and Slicing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders scores 38 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 54. 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 54 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 Cutting and Slicing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders pay

The median wage is $45,700 a year. The lower quarter earns under $38,540 and the upper quarter over $52,000. About 47,540 people do this work in the United States.

Where Cutting and Slicing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders can go next

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

Non-Destructive Testing Specialists 87% of the skills carry over $77k median
Stationary Engineers and Boiler Operators 87% of the skills carry over $75k median
Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians 84% of the skills carry over $79k 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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