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Geodetic Surveyors

Measure large areas of the Earth's surface using satellite observations, global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), light detection and ranging (LIDAR), or related sources.

67 AI exposure
39 Human advantage
60 Market demand
54 AI leverage

Is Geodetic Surveyors a safe career from AI?

Geodetic Surveyors scores 67 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 39, 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 60 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment growing 5.8% over ten years.

What Geodetic Surveyors pay

The median wage is $72,740 a year. The lower quarter earns under $53,590 and the upper quarter over $94,550. About 53,080 people do this work in the United States.

Where Geodetic Surveyors 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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