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Pesticide Handlers, Sprayers, and Applicators, Vegetation

Mix or apply pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, or insecticides through sprays, dusts, vapors, soil incorporation, or chemical application on trees, shrubs, lawns, or crops. Usually requires specific training and state or federal certification.

43 AI exposure
51 Human advantage
56 Market demand
47 AI leverage

Is Pesticide Handlers, Sprayers, and Applicators, Vegetation a safe career from AI?

Pesticide Handlers, Sprayers, and Applicators, Vegetation scores 43 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 51. 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 Pesticide Handlers, Sprayers, and Applicators, Vegetation pay

The median wage is $45,200 a year. The lower quarter earns under $38,040 and the upper quarter over $50,960. About 25,200 people do this work in the United States.

Where Pesticide Handlers, Sprayers, and Applicators, Vegetation can go next

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

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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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