Occupation

Environmental Engineering Technologists and Technicians

Apply theory and principles of environmental engineering to modify, test, and operate equipment and devices used in the prevention, control, and remediation of environmental problems, including waste treatment and site remediation, under the direction of engineering staff or scientists. May assist in the development of environmental remediation devices.

65 AI exposure

41 Human advantage

54 Market demand

54 AI leverage

Is Environmental Engineering Technologists and Technicians a safe career from AI?

Environmental Engineering Technologists and Technicians scores 65 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 41. 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 54 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 Environmental Engineering Technologists and Technicians pay

The median wage is $58,890 a year. The lower quarter earns under $48,250 and the upper quarter over $75,290. About 12,500 people do this work in the United States.

Where Environmental Engineering Technologists and Technicians can go next

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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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