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Outdoor Power Equipment and Other Small Engine Mechanics

Diagnose, adjust, repair, or overhaul small engines used to power lawn mowers, chain saws, recreational sporting equipment, and related equipment.

42 AI exposure
54 Human advantage
56 Market demand
47 AI leverage

Is Outdoor Power Equipment and Other Small Engine Mechanics a safe career from AI?

Outdoor Power Equipment and Other Small Engine Mechanics scores 42 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 54. 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 56 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 Outdoor Power Equipment and Other Small Engine Mechanics pay

The median wage is $46,560 a year. The lower quarter earns under $38,260 and the upper quarter over $56,080. About 34,240 people do this work in the United States.

Where Outdoor Power Equipment and Other Small Engine Mechanics 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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