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Roof Bolters, Mining

Operate machinery to install roof support bolts in underground mine.

25 AI exposure
67 Human advantage
31 Market demand
44 AI leverage

Is Roof Bolters, Mining a safe career from AI?

Roof Bolters, Mining scores 25 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 67, 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 31 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment falling 18.9% over ten years.

What Roof Bolters, Mining pay

The median wage is $76,640 a year. The lower quarter earns under $67,110 and the upper quarter over $80,230. About 2,230 people do this work in the United States.

Where Roof Bolters, Mining 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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