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Helpers--Painters, Paperhangers, Plasterers, and Stucco Masons

Help painters, paperhangers, plasterers, or stucco masons by performing duties requiring less skill. Duties include using, supplying, or holding materials or tools, and cleaning work area and equipment.

15 AI exposure
57 Human advantage
51 Market demand
34 AI leverage

Is Helpers--Painters, Paperhangers, Plasterers, and Stucco Masons a safe career from AI?

Helpers--Painters, Paperhangers, Plasterers, and Stucco Masons scores 15 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 57. 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 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--Painters, Paperhangers, Plasterers, and Stucco Masons pay

The median wage is $38,140 a year. The lower quarter earns under $35,230 and the upper quarter over $45,290. About 7,220 people do this work in the United States.

Where Helpers--Painters, Paperhangers, Plasterers, and Stucco Masons 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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