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Etchers and Engravers

Engrave or etch metal, wood, rubber, or other materials. Includes such workers as etcher-circuit processors, pantograph engravers, and silk screen etchers.

48 AI exposure
37 Human advantage
50 Market demand
43 AI leverage

Is Etchers and Engravers a safe career from AI?

Etchers and Engravers scores 48 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 37, which is low. Most of this role can be done through a screen, and that is the half of the labor market AI has reached first. Market demand scores 50 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 Etchers and Engravers pay

The median wage is $40,450 a year. The lower quarter earns under $35,650 and the upper quarter over $48,510. About 8,390 people do this work in the United States.

Where Etchers and Engravers 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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