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Machine Feeders and Offbearers

Feed materials into or remove materials from machines or equipment that is automatic or tended by other workers.

39 AI exposure
44 Human advantage
43 Market demand
41 AI leverage

Is Machine Feeders and Offbearers a safe career from AI?

Machine Feeders and Offbearers scores 39 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 44. 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 43 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment falling 13.1% over ten years.

What Machine Feeders and Offbearers pay

The median wage is $39,700 a year. The lower quarter earns under $36,020 and the upper quarter over $48,220. About 46,690 people do this work in the United States.

Where Machine Feeders and Offbearers 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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