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Occupation

Rolling Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

Set up, operate, or tend machines to roll steel or plastic forming bends, beads, knurls, rolls, or plate, or to flatten, temper, or reduce gauge of material.

38 AI exposure
49 Human advantage
46 Market demand
43 AI leverage

Is Rolling Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic a safe career from AI?

Rolling Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic scores 38 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 49. 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 46 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment falling 8.3% over ten years.

What Rolling Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic pay

The median wage is $48,630 a year. The lower quarter earns under $41,600 and the upper quarter over $57,730. About 22,350 people do this work in the United States.

Where Rolling Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic can go next

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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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