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Fire-Prevention and Protection Engineers

Research causes of fires, determine fire protection methods, and design or recommend materials or equipment such as structural components or fire-detection equipment to assist organizations in safeguarding life and property against fire, explosion, and related hazards.

87 AI exposure
31 Human advantage
57 Market demand
62 AI leverage

Is Fire-Prevention and Protection Engineers a safe career from AI?

Fire-Prevention and Protection Engineers scores 87 out of 100 for AI exposure, which is high. A large share of this work is the kind current AI systems are measurably good at. That is not a prediction the job disappears, and the research does not support one. It means more of this role is likely to change than most.

Its human advantage score is 31, which is low. Most of this role can be done through a screen, and that is the half of the labor market AI has reached first. Market demand scores 57 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment growing 5.4% over ten years.

What Fire-Prevention and Protection Engineers pay

The median wage is $109,660 a year. The lower quarter earns under $85,400 and the upper quarter over $136,150. About 23,220 people do this work in the United States.

Where Fire-Prevention and Protection Engineers can go next

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

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Telecommunications Engineering Specialists 88% of the skills carry over $130k 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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