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Helpers--Extraction Workers

Help extraction craft workers, such as earth drillers, blasters and explosives workers, derrick operators, and mining machine operators, by performing duties requiring less skill. Duties include supplying equipment or cleaning work area.

27 AI exposure
66 Human advantage
51 Market demand
45 AI leverage

Is Helpers--Extraction Workers a safe career from AI?

Helpers--Extraction Workers scores 27 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 66, 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--Extraction Workers pay

The median wage is $48,400 a year. The lower quarter earns under $39,980 and the upper quarter over $57,560. About 6,720 people do this work in the United States.

Where Helpers--Extraction Workers can go next

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

Ship Engineers 92% of the skills carry over $101k median
Derrick Operators, Oil and Gas 95% of the skills carry over $63k median
Wind Turbine Service Technicians 85% of the skills carry over $63k median
Helpers, Painters, Paperhangers, Plasterers, and Stucco Masons 80% of the skills carry over $38k 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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