Occupation

Food and Tobacco Roasting, Baking, and Drying Machine Operators and Tenders

Operate or tend food or tobacco roasting, baking, or drying equipment, including hearth ovens, kiln driers, roasters, char kilns, and vacuum drying equipment.

46 AI exposure

43 Human advantage

53 Market demand

45 AI leverage

Is Food and Tobacco Roasting, Baking, and Drying Machine Operators and Tenders a safe career from AI?

Food and Tobacco Roasting, Baking, and Drying Machine Operators and Tenders scores 46 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 43. 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 53 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 Food and Tobacco Roasting, Baking, and Drying Machine Operators and Tenders pay

The median wage is $42,730 a year. The lower quarter earns under $36,610 and the upper quarter over $48,680. About 19,500 people do this work in the United States.

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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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