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Septic Tank Servicers and Sewer Pipe Cleaners

Clean and repair septic tanks, sewer lines, or drains. May patch walls and partitions of tank, replace damaged drain tile, or repair breaks in underground piping.

35 AI exposure
61 Human advantage
60 Market demand
47 AI leverage

Is Septic Tank Servicers and Sewer Pipe Cleaners a safe career from AI?

Septic Tank Servicers and Sewer Pipe Cleaners scores 35 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 61, 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 60 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment growing 7.8% over ten years.

What Septic Tank Servicers and Sewer Pipe Cleaners pay

The median wage is $49,140 a year. The lower quarter earns under $42,700 and the upper quarter over $60,320. About 29,050 people do this work in the United States.

Where Septic Tank Servicers and Sewer Pipe Cleaners can go next

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

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Wind Turbine Service Technicians 70% 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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