Occupation
Rotary Drill Operators, Oil and Gas
Set up or operate a variety of drills to remove underground oil and gas, or remove core samples for testing during oil and gas exploration.
Is Rotary Drill Operators, Oil and Gas a safe career from AI?
Rotary Drill Operators, Oil and Gas scores 45 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 52 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 Rotary Drill Operators, Oil and Gas pay
The median wage is $65,010 a year. The lower quarter earns under $52,600 and the upper quarter over $81,550. About 13,090 people do this work in the United States.
Where Rotary Drill Operators, Oil and Gas can go next
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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.