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Maintenance and Repair Workers, General

Perform work involving the skills of two or more maintenance or craft occupations to keep machines, mechanical equipment, or the structure of a building in repair. Duties may involve pipe fitting; HVAC maintenance; insulating; welding; machining; carpentry; repairing electrical or mechanical equipment; installing, aligning, and balancing new equipment; and repairing buildings, floors, or stairs.

39 AI exposure
62 Human advantage
66 Market demand
49 AI leverage

Is Maintenance and Repair Workers, General a safe career from AI?

Maintenance and Repair Workers, General 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 62, which is high. This is work done with hands, with equipment, or in the same room as another person, and that is the part of any job that holds its value. 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 Maintenance and Repair Workers, General pay

The median wage is $48,620 a year. The lower quarter earns under $39,050 and the upper quarter over $61,710. About 1,531,700 people do this work in the United States.

Where Maintenance and Repair Workers, General can go next

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

Ship Engineers 90% of the skills carry over $101k median
Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians 87% of the skills carry over $79k median
Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers 78% of the skills carry over $93k median
Wind Turbine Service Technicians 86% of the skills carry over $63k 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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