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Fire Inspectors and Investigators

Inspect buildings to detect fire hazards and enforce local ordinances and state laws, or investigate and gather facts to determine cause of fires and explosions.

65 AI exposure
49 Human advantage
55 Market demand
58 AI leverage

Is Fire Inspectors and Investigators a safe career from AI?

Fire Inspectors and Investigators scores 65 out of 100 for AI exposure, around the middle of the US labor market. Parts of this work overlap with what AI does well and parts do not.

Its human advantage score is 49. 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 55 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 Fire Inspectors and Investigators pay

The median wage is $78,060 a year. The lower quarter earns under $60,700 and the upper quarter over $105,390. About 14,050 people do this work in the United States.

Where Fire Inspectors and Investigators can go next

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

Compliance Managers 90% of the skills carry over $137k median
First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives 91% of the skills carry over $106k median
Physical Therapists 84% of the skills carry over $101k median
Dental Hygienists 85% of the skills carry over $94k 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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