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Mechanical Door Repairers

Install, service, or repair automatic door mechanisms and hydraulic doors. Includes garage door mechanics.

31 AI exposure
65 Human advantage
59 Market demand
46 AI leverage

Is Mechanical Door Repairers a safe career from AI?

Mechanical Door Repairers scores 31 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 65, 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 59 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment growing 6.4% over ten years.

What Mechanical Door Repairers pay

The median wage is $51,050 a year. The lower quarter earns under $44,720 and the upper quarter over $61,350. About 27,970 people do this work in the United States.

Where Mechanical Door Repairers 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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