Occupation
Dental Laboratory Technicians
Construct and repair full or partial dentures or dental appliances.
Is Dental Laboratory Technicians a safe career from AI?
Dental Laboratory Technicians scores 64 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 33, 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 49 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment falling 5.9% over ten years.
What Dental Laboratory Technicians pay
The median wage is $48,310 a year. The lower quarter earns under $39,250 and the upper quarter over $62,320. About 33,920 people do this work in the United States.
Where Dental Laboratory Technicians can go next
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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.