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Graders and Sorters, Agricultural Products

Grade, sort, or classify unprocessed food and other agricultural products by size, weight, color, or condition.

31 AI exposure
42 Human advantage
50 Market demand
36 AI leverage

Is Graders and Sorters, Agricultural Products a safe career from AI?

Graders and Sorters, Agricultural Products scores 31 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 42. 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 50 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment falling 3.4% over ten years.

What Graders and Sorters, Agricultural Products pay

The median wage is $35,430 a year. The lower quarter earns under $33,550 and the upper quarter over $38,010. About 26,870 people do this work in the United States.

Where Graders and Sorters, Agricultural Products 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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