Occupation

Hazardous Materials Removal Workers

Identify, remove, pack, transport, or dispose of hazardous materials, including asbestos, lead-based paint, waste oil, fuel, transmission fluid, radioactive materials, or contaminated soil. Specialized training and certification in hazardous materials handling or a confined entry permit are generally required. May operate earth-moving equipment or trucks.

47 AI exposure

62 Human advantage

56 Market demand

54 AI leverage

Is Hazardous Materials Removal Workers a safe career from AI?

Hazardous Materials Removal Workers scores 47 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 62, which is high. This is work done with hands, with equipment, or in the same room as another person, and that is the part of any job that holds its value. Market demand scores 56 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 Hazardous Materials Removal Workers pay

The median wage is $48,490 a year. The lower quarter earns under $42,710 and the upper quarter over $62,150. About 50,570 people do this work in the United States.

Where Hazardous Materials Removal Workers can go next

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

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Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairers 74% of the skills carry over $71k 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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