Occupation

Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Underground Mining

Operate underground loading or moving machine to load or move coal, ore, or rock using shuttle or mine car or conveyors. Equipment may include power shovels, hoisting engines equipped with cable-drawn scraper or scoop, or machines equipped with gathering arms and conveyor.

32 AI exposure

54 Human advantage

36 Market demand

42 AI leverage

Is Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Underground Mining a safe career from AI?

Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Underground Mining scores 32 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 36 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment falling 15.8% over ten years.

What Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Underground Mining pay

The median wage is $68,860 a year. The lower quarter earns under $59,130 and the upper quarter over $76,820. About 6,130 people do this work in the United States.

Where Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Underground Mining can go next

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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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