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Quality Control Systems Managers

Plan, direct, or coordinate quality assurance programs. Formulate quality control policies and control quality of laboratory and production efforts.

76 AI exposure
30 Human advantage
60 Market demand
55 AI leverage

Is Quality Control Systems Managers a safe career from AI?

Quality Control Systems Managers scores 76 out of 100 for AI exposure, which is high. A large share of this work is the kind current AI systems are measurably good at. That is not a prediction the job disappears, and the research does not support one. It means more of this role is likely to change than most.

Its human advantage score is 30, 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 60 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 Systems Managers pay

The median wage is $121,440 a year. The lower quarter earns under $94,620 and the upper quarter over $156,330. About 234,380 people do this work in the United States.

Where Quality Control Systems Managers 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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