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Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators

Operate industrial trucks or tractors equipped to move materials around a warehouse, storage yard, factory, construction site, or similar location.

30 AI exposure
55 Human advantage
62 Market demand
41 AI leverage

Is Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators a safe career from AI?

Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators 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 55. 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 62 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 Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators pay

The median wage is $46,390 a year. The lower quarter earns under $39,780 and the upper quarter over $53,680. About 805,770 people do this work in the United States.

Where Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators can go next

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

Stationary Engineers and Boiler Operators 84% of the skills carry over $75k median
Locomotive Engineers 86% of the skills carry over $77k median
Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians 79% of the skills carry over $79k median
Wind Turbine Service Technicians 79% 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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