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Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing

Set up, operate, or tend woodworking machines, such as drill presses, lathes, shapers, routers, sanders, planers, and wood nailing machines. May operate computer numerically controlled (CNC) equipment.

37 AI exposure
50 Human advantage
53 Market demand
43 AI leverage

Is Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing a safe career from AI?

Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing scores 37 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 50. 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 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 2.5% over ten years.

What Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing pay

The median wage is $40,440 a year. The lower quarter earns under $36,260 and the upper quarter over $47,650. About 63,350 people do this work in the United States.

Where Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing 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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