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Electricians

Install, maintain, and repair electrical wiring, equipment, and fixtures. Ensure that work is in accordance with relevant codes. May install or service street lights, intercom systems, or electrical control systems.

45 AI exposure
73 Human advantage
69 Market demand
58 AI leverage

Is Electricians a safe career from AI?

Electricians scores 45 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 73, which is high. This is work done with hands, with equipment, or in the same room as another person, and that is the part of any job that holds its value. Market demand scores 69 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment growing 9.2% over ten years.

What Electricians pay

The median wage is $62,350 a year. The lower quarter earns under $48,820 and the upper quarter over $81,730. About 742,580 people do this work in the United States.

Where Electricians can go next

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

Ship Engineers 86% of the skills carry over $101k median
Solar Energy Installation Managers 87% of the skills carry over $79k median
Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters 81% of the skills carry over $63k median
Industrial Machinery Mechanics 80% of the skills carry over $64k 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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