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Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters

Place and detonate explosives to demolish structures or to loosen, remove, or displace earth, rock, or other materials. May perform specialized handling, storage, and accounting procedures.

46 AI exposure
62 Human advantage
50 Market demand
53 AI leverage

Is Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters a safe career from AI?

Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters scores 46 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 62, 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 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 Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters pay

The median wage is $59,110 a year. The lower quarter earns under $49,860 and the upper quarter over $80,050. About 5,680 people do this work in the United States.

Where Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters 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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