Occupation

Sailors and Marine Oilers

Stand watch to look for obstructions in path of vessel, measure water depth, turn wheel on bridge, or use emergency equipment as directed by captain, mate, or pilot. Break out, rig, overhaul, and store cargo-handling gear, stationary rigging, and running gear. Perform a variety of maintenance tasks to preserve the painted surface of the ship and to maintain line and ship equipment. Must hold government-issued certification and tankerman certification when working aboard liquid-carrying vessels. Includes able seamen and ordinary seamen.

36 AI exposure

55 Human advantage

56 Market demand

45 AI leverage

Is Sailors and Marine Oilers a safe career from AI?

Sailors and Marine Oilers scores 36 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 55. 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 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 Sailors and Marine Oilers pay

The median wage is $49,610 a year. The lower quarter earns under $38,450 and the upper quarter over $65,370. About 31,360 people do this work in the United States.

Where Sailors and Marine Oilers can go next

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

Commercial Pilots 84% of the skills carry over $123k median

Ship Engineers 87% of the skills carry over $101k median

Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay 76% of the skills carry over $101k median

Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers 83% of the skills carry over $93k 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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