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Sound Engineering Technicians

Assemble and operate equipment to record, synchronize, mix, edit, or reproduce sound, including music, voices, or sound effects, for theater, video, film, television, podcasts, sporting events, and other productions.

75 AI exposure
32 Human advantage
49 Market demand
56 AI leverage

Is Sound Engineering Technicians a safe career from AI?

Sound Engineering Technicians scores 75 out of 100 for AI exposure, which is high. A large share of this work is the kind current AI systems are measurably good at. That is not a prediction the job disappears, and the research does not support one. It means more of this role is likely to change than most.

Its human advantage score is 32, which is low. Most of this role can be done through a screen, and that is the half of the labor market AI has reached first. Market demand scores 49 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment falling 3.1% over ten years.

What Sound Engineering Technicians pay

The median wage is $66,430 a year. The lower quarter earns under $47,680 and the upper quarter over $99,950. About 13,050 people do this work in the United States.

Where Sound Engineering Technicians can go next

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

Media Technical Directors/Managers 82% of the skills carry over $83k median
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Telecommunications Engineering Specialists 76% of the skills carry over $130k 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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