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Data Entry Keyers

Operate data entry device, such as keyboard or photo composing perforator. Duties may include verifying data and preparing materials for printing.

71 AI exposure
22 Human advantage
35 Market demand
49 AI leverage

Is Data Entry Keyers a safe career from AI?

Data Entry Keyers scores 71 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 22, 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 35 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment falling 25.5% over ten years.

What Data Entry Keyers pay

The median wage is $39,850 a year. The lower quarter earns under $34,900 and the upper quarter over $47,260. About 135,280 people do this work in the United States.

Where Data Entry Keyers can go next

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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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