Occupation
Manufacturing Engineers
Design, integrate, or improve manufacturing systems or related processes. May work with commercial or industrial designers to refine product designs to increase producibility and decrease costs.
Is Manufacturing Engineers a safe career from AI?
Manufacturing Engineers scores 91 out of 100 for AI exposure, which is high. A large share of this work is the kind current AI systems are measurably good at. That is not a prediction the job disappears, and the research does not support one. It means more of this role is likely to change than most.
Its human advantage score is 37, which is low. Most of this role can be done through a screen, and that is the half of the labor market AI has reached first. Market demand scores 70 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment growing 12.4% over ten years.
What Manufacturing Engineers pay
The median wage is $101,140 a year. The lower quarter earns under $81,910 and the upper quarter over $127,480. About 350,230 people do this work in the United States.
Where Manufacturing Engineers can go next
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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.