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Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers

Assemble, install, repair, or maintain electric or hydraulic freight or passenger elevators, escalators, or dumbwaiters.

43 AI exposure
61 Human advantage
58 Market demand
51 AI leverage

Is Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers a safe career from AI?

Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers scores 43 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 61, 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 58 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment growing 5.7% over ten years.

What Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers pay

The median wage is $106,580 a year. The lower quarter earns under $76,700 and the upper quarter over $131,740. About 23,340 people do this work in the United States.

Where Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers can go next

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

Ship Engineers 87% of the skills carry over $101k median
Wind Turbine Service Technicians 88% of the skills carry over $63k median
Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers 82% of the skills carry over $93k 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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