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Extruding and Forming Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Synthetic and Glass Fibers

Set up, operate, or tend machines that extrude and form continuous filaments from synthetic materials, such as liquid polymer, rayon, and fiberglass.

43 AI exposure
45 Human advantage
49 Market demand
44 AI leverage

Is Extruding and Forming Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Synthetic and Glass Fibers a safe career from AI?

Extruding and Forming Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Synthetic and Glass Fibers scores 43 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 45. 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 49 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment falling 3.3% over ten years.

What Extruding and Forming Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Synthetic and Glass Fibers pay

The median wage is $44,980 a year. The lower quarter earns under $38,990 and the upper quarter over $54,690. About 14,900 people do this work in the United States.

Where Extruding and Forming Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Synthetic and Glass Fibers 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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