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Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers

Tend, control, or operate power-driven, stationary, or portable pumps and manifold systems to transfer gases, oil, other liquids, slurries, or powdered materials to and from various vessels and processes.

44 AI exposure
51 Human advantage
55 Market demand
47 AI leverage

Is Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers a safe career from AI?

Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers scores 44 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 51. 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 55 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment roughly flat over ten years.

What Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers pay

The median wage is $60,020 a year. The lower quarter earns under $47,270 and the upper quarter over $75,160. About 12,600 people do this work in the United States.

Where Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers can go next

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

Ship Engineers 86% of the skills carry over $101k median
Gas Plant Operators 86% of the skills carry over $83k median
Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians 81% of the skills carry over $79k 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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