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First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers

Directly supervise and coordinate the activities of production and operating workers, such as inspectors, precision workers, machine setters and operators, assemblers, fabricators, and plant and system operators. Excludes team or work leaders.

62 AI exposure
52 Human advantage
62 Market demand
58 AI leverage

Is First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers a safe career from AI?

First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers scores 62 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 52. 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 62 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 First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers pay

The median wage is $71,190 a year. The lower quarter earns under $56,330 and the upper quarter over $86,770. About 685,140 people do this work in the United States.

Where First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating 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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