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Helpers--Production Workers

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

30 AI exposure
51 Human advantage
50 Market demand
39 AI leverage

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

Helpers--Production Workers 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 51. 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 50 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment falling 8.2% over ten years.

What Helpers--Production Workers pay

The median wage is $38,220 a year. The lower quarter earns under $34,390 and the upper quarter over $44,980. About 167,490 people do this work in the United States.

Where Helpers--Production Workers 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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