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Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickmasons

Build or repair equipment such as furnaces, kilns, cupolas, boilers, converters, ladles, soaking pits, and ovens, using refractory materials.

34 AI exposure
67 Human advantage
34 Market demand
49 AI leverage

Is Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickmasons a safe career from AI?

Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickmasons scores 34 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 67, which is high. This is work done with hands, with equipment, or in the same room as another person, and that is the part of any job that holds its value. Market demand scores 34 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment falling 13.7% over ten years.

What Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickmasons pay

The median wage is $58,540 a year. The lower quarter earns under $48,380 and the upper quarter over $73,940. About 1,100 people do this work in the United States.

Where Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickmasons can go next

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

Rail Car Repairers 80% of the skills carry over $66k median
Continuous Mining Machine Operators 80% of the skills carry over $63k median
Tree Trimmers and Pruners 78% of the skills carry over $50k median
Construction Laborers 70% of the skills carry over $47k 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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