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Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood

Set up, operate, or tend wood sawing machines. May operate computer numerically controlled (CNC) equipment. Includes lead sawyers.

36 AI exposure
49 Human advantage
53 Market demand
42 AI leverage

Is Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood a safe career from AI?

Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood 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 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 53 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 Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood pay

The median wage is $39,950 a year. The lower quarter earns under $35,550 and the upper quarter over $47,770. About 43,140 people do this work in the United States.

Where Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood 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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