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Fence Erectors

Erect and repair fences and fence gates, using hand and power tools.

18 AI exposure
69 Human advantage
58 Market demand
41 AI leverage

Is Fence Erectors a safe career from AI?

Fence Erectors scores 18 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 69, 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 58 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment growing 5.6% over ten years.

What Fence Erectors pay

The median wage is $46,940 a year. The lower quarter earns under $39,040 and the upper quarter over $57,070. About 22,640 people do this work in the United States.

Where Fence Erectors can go next

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

Structural Iron and Steel Workers 81% of the skills carry over $63k median
Insulation Workers, Mechanical 85% of the skills carry over $57k median
Wind Turbine Service Technicians 63% 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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