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Fast Food and Counter Workers

Perform duties such as taking orders and serving food and beverages. Serve customers at counter or from a steam table. May take payment. May prepare food and beverages.

52 AI exposure
46 Human advantage
70 Market demand
49 AI leverage

Is Fast Food and Counter Workers a safe career from AI?

Fast Food and Counter Workers scores 52 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 46. 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 70 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment growing 5.8% over ten years.

What Fast Food and Counter Workers pay

The median wage is $30,480 a year. The lower quarter earns under $27,150 and the upper quarter over $35,440. About 3,780,930 people do this work in the United States.

Where Fast Food and Counter Workers 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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