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Pile Driver Operators

Operate pile drivers mounted on skids, barges, crawler treads, or locomotive cranes to drive pilings for retaining walls, bulkheads, and foundations of structures such as buildings, bridges, and piers.

35 AI exposure
62 Human advantage
43 Market demand
47 AI leverage

Is Pile Driver Operators a safe career from AI?

Pile Driver Operators scores 35 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 62, 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 43 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment falling 5.7% over ten years.

What Pile Driver Operators pay

The median wage is $70,510 a year. The lower quarter earns under $54,750 and the upper quarter over $103,960. About 3,040 people do this work in the United States.

Where Pile Driver Operators can go next

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

Locomotive Engineers 84% of the skills carry over $77k median
Rail Car Repairers 88% of the skills carry over $66k median
Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers 80% of the skills carry over $93k median
Wind Turbine Service Technicians 78% of the skills carry over $63k 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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