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Maintenance Workers, Machinery

Lubricate machinery, change parts, or perform other routine machinery maintenance.

40 AI exposure
57 Human advantage
53 Market demand
48 AI leverage

Is Maintenance Workers, Machinery a safe career from AI?

Maintenance Workers, Machinery scores 40 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 57. 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 53 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 Workers, Machinery pay

The median wage is $60,500 a year. The lower quarter earns under $48,600 and the upper quarter over $72,260. About 56,540 people do this work in the United States.

Where Maintenance Workers, Machinery can go next

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

Industrial Machinery Mechanics 90% of the skills carry over $64k median
Rail Car Repairers 86% of the skills carry over $66k median
Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers 75% of the skills carry over $93k median
Wind Turbine Service Technicians 80% 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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