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Model Makers, Wood

Construct full-size and scale wooden precision models of products. Includes wood jig builders and loft workers.

46 AI exposure
42 Human advantage
40 Market demand
44 AI leverage

Is Model Makers, Wood a safe career from AI?

Model Makers, Wood scores 46 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 42. 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 40 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment falling 3.3% over ten years.

What Model Makers, Wood pay

The median wage is $51,850 a year. The lower quarter earns under $40,420 and the upper quarter over $80,380. About 360 people do this work in the United States.

Where Model Makers, Wood can go next

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

Layout Workers, Metal and Plastic 89% of the skills carry over $62k median
Patternmakers, Wood 85% of the skills carry over $53k median
Petroleum Pump System Operators, Refinery Operators, and Gaugers 82% of the skills carry over $98k 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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