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Quality Control Analysts

Conduct tests to determine quality of raw materials, bulk intermediate and finished products. May conduct stability sample tests.

74 AI exposure
45 Human advantage
59 Market demand
61 AI leverage

Is Quality Control Analysts a safe career from AI?

Quality Control Analysts scores 74 out of 100 for AI exposure, around the middle of the US labor market. Parts of this work overlap with what AI does well and parts do not.

Its human advantage score is 45. 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 59 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 Quality Control Analysts pay

The median wage is $60,130 a year. The lower quarter earns under $46,270 and the upper quarter over $77,990. About 71,400 people do this work in the United States.

Where Quality Control Analysts 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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