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Nuclear Monitoring Technicians

Collect and test samples to monitor results of nuclear experiments and contamination of humans, facilities, and environment.

68 AI exposure
50 Human advantage
51 Market demand
60 AI leverage

Is Nuclear Monitoring Technicians a safe career from AI?

Nuclear Monitoring Technicians 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 50. 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 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 Nuclear Monitoring Technicians pay

The median wage is $104,240 a year. The lower quarter earns under $83,330 and the upper quarter over $113,710. About 5,990 people do this work in the United States.

Where Nuclear Monitoring Technicians can go next

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

Chemical Engineers 87% of the skills carry over $122k median
Geoscientists, Except Hydrologists and Geographers 87% of the skills carry over $99k median
Medical Dosimetrists 85% of the skills carry over $138k median
Detectives and Criminal Investigators 80% 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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