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Wind Turbine Service Technicians

Inspect, diagnose, adjust, or repair wind turbines. Perform maintenance on wind turbine equipment including resolving electrical, mechanical, and hydraulic malfunctions.

40 AI exposure
77 Human advantage
77 Market demand
57 AI leverage

Is Wind Turbine Service Technicians a safe career from AI?

Wind Turbine Service Technicians scores 40 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 77, 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 77 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment growing 29.5% over ten years.

What Wind Turbine Service Technicians pay

The median wage is $62,580 a year. The lower quarter earns under $58,910 and the upper quarter over $75,640. About 11,220 people do this work in the United States.

Where Wind Turbine Service Technicians can go next

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

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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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