Occupation

Forest and Conservation Technicians

Provide technical assistance regarding the conservation of soil, water, forests, or related natural resources. May compile data pertaining to size, content, condition, and other characteristics of forest tracts under the direction of foresters, or train and lead forest workers in forest propagation and fire prevention and suppression. May assist conservation scientists in managing, improving, and protecting rangelands and wildlife habitats.

48 AI exposure

55 Human advantage

52 Market demand

51 AI leverage

Is Forest and Conservation Technicians a safe career from AI?

Forest and Conservation Technicians scores 48 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 55. 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 52 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment falling 2.1% over ten years.

What Forest and Conservation Technicians pay

The median wage is $54,310 a year. The lower quarter earns under $42,560 and the upper quarter over $66,020. About 31,080 people do this work in the United States.

Where Forest and Conservation Technicians 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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