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Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers

Install, set up, rearrange, or remove switching, distribution, routing, and dialing equipment used in central offices or headends. Service or repair telephone, cable television, Internet, and other communications equipment on customers' property. May install communications equipment or communications wiring in buildings.

43 AI exposure
55 Human advantage
54 Market demand
48 AI leverage

Is Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers a safe career from AI?

Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers scores 43 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 55. 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 falling 3.3% over ten years.

What Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers pay

The median wage is $62,630 a year. The lower quarter earns under $50,580 and the upper quarter over $80,040. About 153,890 people do this work in the United States.

Where Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers can go next

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

Ship Engineers 86% of the skills carry over $101k median
Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairers 86% of the skills carry over $71k median
Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers 77% of the skills carry over $93k 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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