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Pourers and Casters, Metal

Operate hand-controlled mechanisms to pour and regulate the flow of molten metal into molds to produce castings or ingots.

40 AI exposure
43 Human advantage
45 Market demand
41 AI leverage

Is Pourers and Casters, Metal a safe career from AI?

Pourers and Casters, Metal scores 40 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 43. 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 45 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% over ten years.

What Pourers and Casters, Metal pay

The median wage is $48,940 a year. The lower quarter earns under $41,410 and the upper quarter over $59,850. About 5,830 people do this work in the United States.

Where Pourers and Casters, Metal 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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