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Office Machine Operators, Except Computer

Operate one or more of a variety of office machines, such as photocopying, photographic, and duplicating machines, or other office machines.

51 AI exposure
27 Human advantage
40 Market demand
40 AI leverage

Is Office Machine Operators, Except Computer a safe career from AI?

Office Machine Operators, Except Computer 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 27, 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 40 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment falling 14.9% over ten years.

What Office Machine Operators, Except Computer pay

The median wage is $39,020 a year. The lower quarter earns under $34,420 and the upper quarter over $46,680. About 24,740 people do this work in the United States.

Where Office Machine Operators, Except Computer can go next

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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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