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Helpers--Carpenters

Help carpenters by performing duties requiring less skill. Duties include using, supplying, or holding materials or tools, and cleaning work area and equipment.

30 AI exposure
67 Human advantage
51 Market demand
47 AI leverage

Is Helpers--Carpenters a safe career from AI?

Helpers--Carpenters scores 30 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 67, 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 51 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 Helpers--Carpenters pay

The median wage is $41,600 a year. The lower quarter earns under $35,870 and the upper quarter over $46,780. About 24,610 people do this work in the United States.

Where Helpers--Carpenters can go next

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

Brickmasons and Blockmasons 79% of the skills carry over $61k median
Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers 82% of the skills carry over $55k median
Wind Turbine Service Technicians 72% of the skills carry over $63k median
Structural Iron and Steel Workers 71% of the skills carry over $63k 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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