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Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand

Manually move freight, stock, luggage, or other materials, or perform other general labor. Includes all manual laborers not elsewhere classified.

23 AI exposure
55 Human advantage
66 Market demand
37 AI leverage

Is Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand a safe career from AI?

Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand scores 23 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 66 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 Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand pay

The median wage is $38,940 a year. The lower quarter earns under $35,410 and the upper quarter over $46,370. About 2,982,530 people do this work in the United States.

Where Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand 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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