Occupation
Non-Destructive Testing Specialists
Test the safety of structures, vehicles, or vessels using x-ray, ultrasound, fiber optic or related equipment.
Is Non-Destructive Testing Specialists a safe career from AI?
Non-Destructive Testing Specialists scores 68 out of 100 for AI exposure, around the middle of the US labor market. Parts of this work overlap with what AI does well and parts do not.
Its human advantage score is 56. 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 58 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 Non-Destructive Testing Specialists pay
The median wage is $77,390 a year. The lower quarter earns under $59,700 and the upper quarter over $97,760. About 64,410 people do this work in the United States.
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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.