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Watch and Clock Repairers

Repair, clean, and adjust mechanisms of timing instruments, such as watches and clocks. Includes watchmakers, watch technicians, and mechanical timepiece repairers.

59 AI exposure
29 Human advantage
46 Market demand
46 AI leverage

Is Watch and Clock Repairers a safe career from AI?

Watch and Clock Repairers scores 59 out of 100 for AI exposure, around the middle of the US labor market. Parts of this work overlap with what AI does well and parts do not.

Its human advantage score is 29, which is low. Most of this role can be done through a screen, and that is the half of the labor market AI has reached first. Market demand scores 46 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 Watch and Clock Repairers pay

The median wage is $60,690 a year. The lower quarter earns under $46,530 and the upper quarter over $77,340. About 1,300 people do this work in the United States.

Where Watch and Clock 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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