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Food Batchmakers

Set up and operate equipment that mixes or blends ingredients used in the manufacturing of food products. Includes candy makers and cheese makers.

55 AI exposure
45 Human advantage
63 Market demand
51 AI leverage

Is Food Batchmakers a safe career from AI?

Food Batchmakers scores 55 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 45. 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 63 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment growing 6.5% over ten years.

What Food Batchmakers pay

The median wage is $40,790 a year. The lower quarter earns under $35,340 and the upper quarter over $49,010. About 171,660 people do this work in the United States.

Where Food Batchmakers 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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