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Geothermal Technicians

Perform technical activities at power plants or individual installations necessary for the generation of power from geothermal energy sources. Monitor and control operating activities at geothermal power generation facilities and perform maintenance and repairs as necessary. Install, test, and maintain residential and commercial geothermal heat pumps.

50 AI exposure
56 Human advantage
60 Market demand
53 AI leverage

Is Geothermal Technicians a safe career from AI?

Geothermal Technicians scores 50 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 56. 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 60 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 Geothermal Technicians pay

The median wage is $48,640 a year. The lower quarter earns under $40,700 and the upper quarter over $61,090. About 183,690 people do this work in the United States.

Where Geothermal Technicians can go next

Occupations that share most of what this job already requires, ranked by how much carries over.

Hydroelectric Plant Technicians 88% of the skills carry over $100k median
Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers 78% of the skills carry over $93k median
Electricians 83% of the skills carry over $62k median

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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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