Occupation
Remote Sensing Technicians
Apply remote sensing technologies to assist scientists in areas such as natural resources, urban planning, or homeland security. May prepare flight plans or sensor configurations for flight trips.
Is Remote Sensing Technicians a safe career from AI?
Remote Sensing Technicians 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 25, 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 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 Remote Sensing Technicians 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.
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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.