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Signal and Track Switch Repairers

Install, inspect, test, maintain, or repair electric gate crossings, signals, signal equipment, track switches, section lines, or intercommunications systems within a railroad system.

43 AI exposure
52 Human advantage
52 Market demand
47 AI leverage

Is Signal and Track Switch Repairers a safe career from AI?

Signal and Track Switch Repairers scores 43 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 52. 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 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 Signal and Track Switch Repairers pay

The median wage is $83,600 a year. The lower quarter earns under $75,680 and the upper quarter over $95,620. About 8,210 people do this work in the United States.

Where Signal and Track Switch Repairers can go next

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

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Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers 77% 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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