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Industrial Machinery Mechanics

Repair, install, adjust, or maintain industrial production and processing machinery or refinery and pipeline distribution systems. May also install, dismantle, or move machinery and heavy equipment according to plans.

37 AI exposure
54 Human advantage
75 Market demand
45 AI leverage

Is Industrial Machinery Mechanics a safe career from AI?

Industrial Machinery Mechanics scores 37 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 54. 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 75 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment growing 17.8% over ten years.

What Industrial Machinery Mechanics pay

The median wage is $63,760 a year. The lower quarter earns under $52,710 and the upper quarter over $78,070. About 421,940 people do this work in the United States.

Where Industrial Machinery Mechanics can go next

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

Ship Engineers 88% of the skills carry over $101k median
Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers 76% of the skills carry over $93k median
Wind Turbine Service Technicians 86% 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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