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Print Binding and Finishing Workers

Bind books and other publications or finish printed products by hand or machine. May set up binding and finishing machines.

42 AI exposure
41 Human advantage
39 Market demand
42 AI leverage

Is Print Binding and Finishing Workers a safe career from AI?

Print Binding and Finishing Workers scores 42 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 41. 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 39 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment falling 17.5% over ten years.

What Print Binding and Finishing Workers pay

The median wage is $39,820 a year. The lower quarter earns under $36,070 and the upper quarter over $48,240. About 36,470 people do this work in the United States.

Where Print Binding and Finishing Workers 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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