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Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians

Apply electrical and electronic theory and related knowledge, usually under the direction of engineering staff, to design, build, repair, adjust, and modify electrical components, circuitry, controls, and machinery for subsequent evaluation and use by engineering staff in making engineering design decisions.

72 AI exposure
36 Human advantage
58 Market demand
56 AI leverage

Is Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians a safe career from AI?

Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians scores 72 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 36, 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 58 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 Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians pay

The median wage is $77,180 a year. The lower quarter earns under $60,610 and the upper quarter over $94,810. About 92,710 people do this work in the United States.

Where Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians can go next

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

Electronics Engineers, Except Computer 86% of the skills carry over $128k median
Telecommunications Engineering Specialists 75% of the skills carry over $130k median
Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers 76% of the skills carry over $107k 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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