Occupation

Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers

Help installation, maintenance, and repair workers in maintenance, parts replacement, and repair of vehicles, industrial machinery, and electrical and electronic equipment. Perform duties such as furnishing tools, materials, and supplies to other workers; cleaning work area, machines, and tools; and holding materials or tools for other workers.

32 AI exposure

58 Human advantage

61 Market demand

44 AI leverage

Is Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers a safe career from AI?

Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers scores 32 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 58. 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 61 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment growing 5.3% over ten years.

What Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers pay

The median wage is $38,860 a year. The lower quarter earns under $33,760 and the upper quarter over $46,600. About 97,540 people do this work in the United States.

Where Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers can go next

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

Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers 83% of the skills carry over $107k median

Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay 82% of the skills carry over $101k median

Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers 79% of the skills carry over $93k median

Electricians 76% of the skills carry over $62k 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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