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Reinforcing Iron and Rebar Workers

Position and secure steel bars or mesh in concrete forms in order to reinforce concrete. Use a variety of fasteners, rod-bending machines, blowtorches, and hand tools. Includes rod busters.

17 AI exposure
64 Human advantage
47 Market demand
38 AI leverage

Is Reinforcing Iron and Rebar Workers a safe career from AI?

Reinforcing Iron and Rebar Workers scores 17 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 64, 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 47 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment falling 5.3% over ten years.

What Reinforcing Iron and Rebar Workers pay

The median wage is $59,280 a year. The lower quarter earns under $47,300 and the upper quarter over $74,190. About 14,140 people do this work in the United States.

Where Reinforcing Iron and Rebar Workers 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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