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Occupational Health and Safety Technicians

Collect data on work environments for analysis by occupational health and safety specialists. Implement and conduct evaluation of programs designed to limit chemical, physical, biological, and ergonomic risks to workers.

73 AI exposure
48 Human advantage
70 Market demand
62 AI leverage

Is Occupational Health and Safety Technicians a safe career from AI?

Occupational Health and Safety Technicians scores 73 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 48. 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 70 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment growing 19.4% over ten years.

What Occupational Health and Safety Technicians pay

The median wage is $58,440 a year. The lower quarter earns under $49,510 and the upper quarter over $74,810. About 31,450 people do this work in the United States.

Where Occupational Health and Safety Technicians can go next

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

Occupational Health and Safety Specialists 94% of the skills carry over $84k median
First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives 87% of the skills carry over $106k median
Detectives and Criminal Investigators 89% 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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