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Farm Equipment Mechanics and Service Technicians

Diagnose, adjust, repair, or overhaul farm machinery and vehicles, such as tractors, harvesters, dairy equipment, and irrigation systems.

35 AI exposure
61 Human advantage
63 Market demand
47 AI leverage

Is Farm Equipment Mechanics and Service Technicians a safe career from AI?

Farm Equipment Mechanics and Service Technicians scores 35 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 61, 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 63 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment growing 10.7% over ten years.

What Farm Equipment Mechanics and Service Technicians pay

The median wage is $52,080 a year. The lower quarter earns under $45,660 and the upper quarter over $63,070. About 36,880 people do this work in the United States.

Where Farm Equipment Mechanics and Service Technicians can go next

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

Photonics Technicians 86% of the skills carry over $77k median
Industrial Machinery Mechanics 87% of the skills carry over $64k median
Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers 70% of the skills carry over $93k median
Wind Turbine Service Technicians 81% of the skills carry over $63k 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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