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Stationary Engineers and Boiler Operators

Operate or maintain stationary engines, boilers, or other mechanical equipment to provide utilities for buildings or industrial processes. Operate equipment such as steam engines, generators, motors, turbines, and steam boilers.

52 AI exposure
58 Human advantage
56 Market demand
55 AI leverage

Is Stationary Engineers and Boiler Operators a safe career from AI?

Stationary Engineers and Boiler Operators scores 52 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 58. 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 56 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 Stationary Engineers and Boiler Operators pay

The median wage is $75,190 a year. The lower quarter earns under $60,110 and the upper quarter over $96,420. About 30,780 people do this work in the United States.

Where Stationary Engineers and Boiler Operators can go next

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

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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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