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Occupation

Painters, Construction and Maintenance

Paint walls, equipment, buildings, bridges, and other structural surfaces, using brushes, rollers, and spray guns. May remove old paint to prepare surface prior to painting. May mix colors or oils to obtain desired color or consistency.

26 AI exposure
60 Human advantage
61 Market demand
41 AI leverage

Is Painters, Construction and Maintenance a safe career from AI?

Painters, Construction and Maintenance scores 26 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 60, which is high. This is work done with hands, with equipment, or in the same room as another person, and that is the part of any job that holds its value. Market demand scores 61 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 Painters, Construction and Maintenance pay

The median wage is $48,660 a year. The lower quarter earns under $42,510 and the upper quarter over $60,270. About 224,180 people do this work in the United States.

Where Painters, Construction and Maintenance can go next

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

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Brickmasons and Blockmasons 76% of the skills carry over $61k 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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