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Roustabouts, Oil and Gas

Assemble or repair oil field equipment using hand and power tools. Perform other tasks as needed.

27 AI exposure
62 Human advantage
57 Market demand
43 AI leverage

Is Roustabouts, Oil and Gas a safe career from AI?

Roustabouts, Oil and Gas scores 27 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 62, 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 57 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 Roustabouts, Oil and Gas pay

The median wage is $47,510 a year. The lower quarter earns under $38,330 and the upper quarter over $57,170. About 45,330 people do this work in the United States.

Where Roustabouts, Oil and Gas can go next

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

Captains, Mates, and Pilots of Water Vessels 83% of the skills carry over $86k median
Rotary Drill Operators, Oil and Gas 86% of the skills carry over $65k median
Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers 76% of the skills carry over $93k median
Wind Turbine Service Technicians 76% of the skills carry over $63k 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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