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Pest Control Workers

Apply or release chemical solutions or toxic gases and set traps to kill or remove pests and vermin that infest buildings and surrounding areas.

46 AI exposure
54 Human advantage
61 Market demand
50 AI leverage

Is Pest Control Workers a safe career from AI?

Pest Control Workers scores 46 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 61 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment growing 5.5% over ten years.

What Pest Control Workers pay

The median wage is $44,730 a year. The lower quarter earns under $37,060 and the upper quarter over $49,300. About 96,110 people do this work in the United States.

Where Pest Control Workers can go next

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

Detectives and Criminal Investigators 79% of the skills carry over $94k median
Fire Inspectors and Investigators 77% of the skills carry over $78k median
Firefighters 75% of the skills carry over $60k median
Paramedics 73% of the skills carry over $58k 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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