Occupation
Dispatchers, Except Police, Fire, and Ambulance
Schedule and dispatch workers, work crews, equipment, or service vehicles for conveyance of materials, freight, or passengers, or for normal installation, service, or emergency repairs rendered outside the place of business. Duties may include using radio, telephone, or computer to transmit assignments and compiling statistics and reports on work progress.
Is Dispatchers, Except Police, Fire, and Ambulance a safe career from AI?
Dispatchers, Except Police, Fire, and Ambulance scores 93 out of 100 for AI exposure, which is high. A large share of this work is the kind current AI systems are measurably good at. That is not a prediction the job disappears, and the research does not support one. It means more of this role is likely to change than most.
Its human advantage score is 34, 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 57 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 Dispatchers, Except Police, Fire, and Ambulance pay
The median wage is $48,880 a year. The lower quarter earns under $40,240 and the upper quarter over $61,520. About 211,000 people do this work in the United States.
Where Dispatchers, Except Police, Fire, and Ambulance 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.