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Occupation

Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers

Inspect, test, sort, sample, or weigh nonagricultural raw materials or processed, machined, fabricated, or assembled parts or products for defects, wear, and deviations from specifications. May use precision measuring instruments and complex test equipment.

63 AI exposure
47 Human advantage
62 Market demand
56 AI leverage

Is Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers a safe career from AI?

Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers scores 63 out of 100 for AI exposure, around the middle of the US labor market. Parts of this work overlap with what AI does well and parts do not.

Its human advantage score is 47. 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 Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers pay

The median wage is $47,460 a year. The lower quarter earns under $38,740 and the upper quarter over $59,970. About 591,180 people do this work in the United States.

Where Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers 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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