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Environmental Science and Protection Technicians, Including Health

Perform laboratory and field tests to monitor the environment and investigate sources of pollution, including those that affect health, under the direction of an environmental scientist, engineer, or other specialist. May collect samples of gases, soil, water, and other materials for testing.

64 AI exposure
41 Human advantage
60 Market demand
54 AI leverage

Is Environmental Science and Protection Technicians, Including Health a safe career from AI?

Environmental Science and Protection Technicians, Including Health scores 64 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 60 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment growing 6.9% over ten years.

What Environmental Science and Protection Technicians, Including Health pay

The median wage is $49,490 a year. The lower quarter earns under $38,050 and the upper quarter over $64,170. About 39,390 people do this work in the United States.

Where Environmental Science and Protection Technicians, Including Health can go next

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

Environmental Compliance Inspectors 94% of the skills carry over $78k median
Nuclear Monitoring Technicians 82% of the skills carry over $104k median
Acute Care Nurses 79% of the skills carry over $94k 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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