Occupation
Refuse and Recyclable Material Collectors
Collect and dump refuse or recyclable materials from containers into truck. May drive truck.
Is Refuse and Recyclable Material Collectors a safe career from AI?
Refuse and Recyclable Material Collectors scores 33 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 48. 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 Refuse and Recyclable Material Collectors pay
The median wage is $48,350 a year. The lower quarter earns under $38,330 and the upper quarter over $61,010. About 139,180 people do this work in the United States.
Where Refuse and Recyclable Material Collectors can go next
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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.