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Riggers

Set up or repair rigging for construction projects, manufacturing plants, logging yards, ships and shipyards, or for the entertainment industry.

35 AI exposure
68 Human advantage
56 Market demand
50 AI leverage

Is Riggers a safe career from AI?

Riggers scores 35 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 68, 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 56 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 Riggers pay

The median wage is $62,060 a year. The lower quarter earns under $47,940 and the upper quarter over $79,340. About 24,190 people do this work in the United States.

Where Riggers can go next

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

Petroleum Pump System Operators, Refinery Operators, and Gaugers 87% of the skills carry over $98k median
Hydroelectric Plant Technicians 83% of the skills carry over $100k median
Wind Turbine Service Technicians 77% of the skills carry over $63k median
Brickmasons and Blockmasons 78% of the skills carry over $61k 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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