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Multiple Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

Set up, operate, or tend more than one type of cutting or forming machine tool or robot.

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

Is Multiple Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic a safe career from AI?

Multiple Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic 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 57 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 Multiple Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic pay

The median wage is $46,060 a year. The lower quarter earns under $38,320 and the upper quarter over $56,220. About 129,850 people do this work in the United States.

Where Multiple Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic can go next

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

Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians 86% of the skills carry over $79k median
Stationary Engineers and Boiler Operators 90% of the skills carry over $75k median
Ship Engineers 83% of the skills carry over $101k 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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