Occupation
Subway and Streetcar Operators
Operate subway or elevated suburban trains with no separate locomotive, or electric-powered streetcar, to transport passengers. May handle fares.
Is Subway and Streetcar Operators a safe career from AI?
Subway and Streetcar Operators scores 49 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 50. 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 54 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 Subway and Streetcar Operators pay
The median wage is $84,830 a year. The lower quarter earns under $59,500 and the upper quarter over $87,940. About 9,200 people do this work in the United States.
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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.