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Glass Blowers, Molders, Benders, and Finishers

Shape molten glass according to patterns.

35 AI exposure
37 Human advantage
59 Market demand
36 AI leverage

Is Glass Blowers, Molders, Benders, and Finishers a safe career from AI?

Glass Blowers, Molders, Benders, and Finishers scores 35 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 37, 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 59 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 Glass Blowers, Molders, Benders, and Finishers pay

The median wage is $45,690 a year. The lower quarter earns under $38,500 and the upper quarter over $51,340. About 34,750 people do this work in the United States.

Where Glass Blowers, Molders, Benders, and Finishers can go next

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

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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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