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Occupation

Engine and Other Machine Assemblers

Construct, assemble, or rebuild machines, such as engines, turbines, and similar equipment used in such industries as construction, extraction, textiles, and paper manufacturing.

41 AI exposure
53 Human advantage
39 Market demand
46 AI leverage

Is Engine and Other Machine Assemblers a safe career from AI?

Engine and Other Machine Assemblers scores 41 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 53. There is a real physical and in-person component to this work, alongside a good deal that could be done from anywhere. Market demand scores 39 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment falling 17% over ten years.

What Engine and Other Machine Assemblers pay

The median wage is $52,540 a year. The lower quarter earns under $42,790 and the upper quarter over $70,050. About 38,420 people do this work in the United States.

Where Engine and Other Machine Assemblers can go next

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

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Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers 72% 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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