Occupation
Pipelayers
Lay pipe for storm or sanitation sewers, drains, and water mains. Perform any combination of the following tasks: grade trenches or culverts, position pipe, or seal joints.
Is Pipelayers a safe career from AI?
Pipelayers scores 34 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 51 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment falling 3.1% over ten years.
What Pipelayers pay
The median wage is $48,710 a year. The lower quarter earns under $42,320 and the upper quarter over $60,980. About 33,580 people do this work in the United States.
Where Pipelayers can go next
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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.