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Jewelers and Precious Stone and Metal Workers

Design, fabricate, adjust, repair, or appraise jewelry, gold, silver, other precious metals, or gems.

60 AI exposure
36 Human advantage
50 Market demand
49 AI leverage

Is Jewelers and Precious Stone and Metal Workers a safe career from AI?

Jewelers and Precious Stone and Metal Workers scores 60 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 36, which is low. Most of this role can be done through a screen, and that is the half of the labor market AI has reached first. 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 3.2% over ten years.

What Jewelers and Precious Stone and Metal Workers pay

The median wage is $49,140 a year. The lower quarter earns under $38,030 and the upper quarter over $63,210. About 23,420 people do this work in the United States.

Where Jewelers and Precious Stone and Metal Workers can go next

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

Glass Blowers, Molders, Benders, and Finishers 76% of the skills carry over $46k median
Dental Laboratory Technicians 75% of the skills carry over $48k median
Biofuels Production Managers 66% of the skills carry over $121k median
Construction Managers 67% of the skills carry over $107k 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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