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Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters

Fabricate, position, align, and fit parts of structural metal products.

38 AI exposure
51 Human advantage
49 Market demand
44 AI leverage

Is Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters a safe career from AI?

Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters scores 38 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 51. 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 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 6.2% over ten years.

What Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters pay

The median wage is $49,900 a year. The lower quarter earns under $44,290 and the upper quarter over $59,810. About 53,380 people do this work in the United States.

Where Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters can go next

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

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Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters 73% 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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