Occupation
Petroleum Pump System Operators, Refinery Operators, and Gaugers
Operate or control petroleum refining or processing units. May specialize in controlling manifold and pumping systems, gauging or testing oil in storage tanks, or regulating the flow of oil into pipelines.
Is Petroleum Pump System Operators, Refinery Operators, and Gaugers a safe career from AI?
Petroleum Pump System Operators, Refinery Operators, and Gaugers scores 55 out of 100 for AI exposure, around the middle of the US labor market. Parts of this work overlap with what AI does well and parts do not.
Its human advantage score is 56. 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 52 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 Petroleum Pump System Operators, Refinery Operators, and Gaugers pay
The median wage is $97,540 a year. The lower quarter earns under $77,970 and the upper quarter over $104,660. About 34,860 people do this work in the United States.
Where Petroleum Pump System Operators, Refinery Operators, and Gaugers can go next
Occupations that share most of what this job already requires, ranked by how much carries over.
Thinking about moving out of Petroleum Pump System Operators, Refinery Operators, and Gaugers?
Answer three questions and see which jobs you could move into, what carries over from your own experience, and who is hiring.
Show me where to goWhere 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.