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Agricultural Equipment Operators
Mostly untouched
AI barely touches this work so far. The BLS expects 8.6% more of these jobs by 2035, faster than the 3.5% average.
- Rank
- Joint #685 of 785 jobs, by how much of the work AI does
- US jobs, 2025 to 2035
- +8.6% All jobs: +3.5%
- Median US pay
- $41,730 a year, 2025
- People doing it
- 66,900 in the US, with about 10,100 openings a year
The work, 13 activities
The job description, marked up.
Every activity in this job, the biggest first. Tap a line for the evidence.
- deleAI does this
- +AIAI helps
- stetStill yours
Still yours: Operate agricultural or forestry equipment28%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Maintain tools or equipment16%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
AI helps with this: Set up equipment9%
People asked AI for help with this in about 1 in 511 conversations, and it got them there 95% of the time.
Still yours: Load products, materials, or equipment for transportation or further processing9%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Inspect commercial, industrial, or production systems or equipment8%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
AI helps with this: Prepare mixtures or solutions7%
People asked AI for help with this in about 1 in 714 conversations, and it got them there 93% of the time.
Still yours: Apply protective solutions or coatings6%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
AI helps with this: Communicate with others about operational plans or activities6%
People asked AI for help with this in about 1 in 1,065 conversations, and it got them there 93% of the time. In this job the work is hands-on, so AI can only assist.
Still yours: Manage agricultural or forestry operations3%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Perform agricultural activities2%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
AI helps with this: Measure physical characteristics of materials, products, or equipment2%
People asked AI for help with this in about 1 in 1,656 conversations, and it got them there 84% of the time.
Still yours: Maintain operational records2%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Operate industrial processing or production equipment2%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
2025 to 2035
Ten years from now.
For every 100 of these jobs in 2025, the BLS projects 109 in 2035. Across all US jobs, about 104.
About 10,100 openings a year, from growth and from people who retire or move on.
Nearby
Where your skills travel.
The jobs closest to this one. None of them is much less exposed.
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The wire
On the wire.
Nothing filed about this job yet. The latest from the Planet front:
How to read this file.
deleAI does this. In US Bing Copilot conversations from January to September 2024, AI itself performed the activity, completed it and made a real difference often enough to count.
+AIAI helps. People brought the activity to AI as their own goal, and it usually got them there.
stetStill yours. It barely shows up in AI use, AI rarely finishes it, or in this job it needs hands.
Shares are weighted by how much each activity matters in the job, using O*NET. Microsoft’s own AI applicability score for this job is 0.08, higher than 25% of jobs.
Doing an activity is not doing a job. The researchers behind this data warn against reading it as job loss, and so do we. It is US data; the shape of the work travels.
Sources: Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025) · O*NET OnLine, 45-2091 · BLS Employment Projections 2025 to 2035
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