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Merchandise Displayers and Window Trimmers

Plan and erect commercial displays, such as those in windows and interiors of retail stores and at trade exhibitions.

40 AI exposure
47 Human advantage
60 Market demand
43 AI leverage

Is Merchandise Displayers and Window Trimmers a safe career from AI?

Merchandise Displayers and Window Trimmers 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 47. 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 60 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 Merchandise Displayers and Window Trimmers pay

The median wage is $37,350 a year. The lower quarter earns under $33,580 and the upper quarter over $44,750. About 192,480 people do this work in the United States.

Where Merchandise Displayers and Window Trimmers can go next

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

Public Relations Specialists 77% of the skills carry over $70k median
Transportation Security Screeners 78% of the skills carry over $63k median
First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives 70% of the skills carry over $106k median
Detectives and Criminal Investigators 71% of the skills carry over $94k 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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