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Potters, Manufacturing

Operate production machines such as pug mill, jigger machine, or potter's wheel to process clay in manufacture of ceramic, pottery and stoneware products.

35 AI exposure
33 Human advantage
59 Market demand
34 AI leverage

Is Potters, Manufacturing a safe career from AI?

Potters, Manufacturing 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 33, which is low. Most of this role can be done through a screen, and that is the half of the labor market AI has reached first. Market demand scores 59 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment growing 5.8% over ten years.

What Potters, Manufacturing pay

The median wage is $45,690 a year. The lower quarter earns under $38,500 and the upper quarter over $51,340. About 34,750 people do this work in the United States.

Where Potters, Manufacturing can go next

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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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