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Solar Photovoltaic Installers

Assemble, install, or maintain solar photovoltaic (PV) systems on roofs or other structures in compliance with site assessment and schematics. May include measuring, cutting, assembling, and bolting structural framing and solar modules. May perform minor electrical work such as current checks.

41 AI exposure
70 Human advantage
85 Market demand
54 AI leverage

Is Solar Photovoltaic Installers a safe career from AI?

Solar Photovoltaic Installers scores 41 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 70, 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 85 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment growing 36.5% over ten years.

What Solar Photovoltaic Installers pay

The median wage is $51,860 a year. The lower quarter earns under $46,040 and the upper quarter over $63,020. About 28,280 people do this work in the United States.

Where Solar Photovoltaic Installers can go next

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

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Brickmasons and Blockmasons 80% of the skills carry over $61k 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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