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Wellhead Pumpers

Operate power pumps and auxiliary equipment to produce flow of oil or gas from wells in oil field.

38 AI exposure
46 Human advantage
50 Market demand
42 AI leverage

Is Wellhead Pumpers a safe career from AI?

Wellhead Pumpers 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 46. 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 50 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 Wellhead Pumpers pay

The median wage is $70,010 a year. The lower quarter earns under $54,450 and the upper quarter over $80,720. About 17,350 people do this work in the United States.

Where Wellhead Pumpers can go next

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

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Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers 76% of the skills carry over $107k 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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