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Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners

Repair percussion, stringed, reed, or wind instruments. May specialize in one area, such as piano tuning.

51 AI exposure
34 Human advantage
51 Market demand
43 AI leverage

Is Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners a safe career from AI?

Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners scores 51 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 34, 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 51 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 Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners pay

The median wage is $45,320 a year. The lower quarter earns under $35,820 and the upper quarter over $56,960. About 5,730 people do this work in the United States.

Where Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners 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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