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Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairers

Install and repair telecommunications cable, including fiber optics.

38 AI exposure
64 Human advantage
53 Market demand
50 AI leverage

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

Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairers 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 64, which is high. This is work done with hands, with equipment, or in the same room as another person, and that is the part of any job that holds its value. Market demand scores 53 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment falling 3.4% over ten years.

What Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairers pay

The median wage is $70,500 a year. The lower quarter earns under $50,620 and the upper quarter over $95,520. About 98,360 people do this work in the United States.

Where Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairers can go next

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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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