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Motorboat Mechanics and Service Technicians
Mostly untouched
AI barely touches this work so far. The BLS expects 4.9% more of these jobs by 2035, faster than the 3.5% average.
- Rank
- #570 of 785 jobs, by how much of the work AI does
- US jobs, 2025 to 2035
- +4.9% All jobs: +3.5%
- Median US pay
- $57,550 a year, 2025
- People doing it
- 25,000 in the US, with about 2,600 openings a year
The work, 11 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: Repair vehicle components18%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Monitor equipment operation13%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Inspect vehicles12%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
AI helps with this: Adjust equipment to ensure adequate performance11%
People asked AI for help with this in about 1 in 510 conversations, and it got them there 94% of the time.
Still yours: Repair tools or equipment10%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Position tools or equipment7%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
AI does this: Document technical designs, procedures, or activities7%
AI performed this in about 1 in 779 Copilot conversations and completed it 93% of the time.
Still yours: Maintain vehicles in working condition7%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Position materials or components for assembly6%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Disassemble equipment6%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Repair electrical or electronic equipment5%
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 105 in 2035. Across all US jobs, about 104.
About 2,600 openings a year, from growth and from people who retire or move on.
Nearby
Where your skills travel.
Jobs that share the most work with this one, where AI does less of it.
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The wire
On the wire.
Nothing filed about this job yet. The latest from the Work 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 0.07, higher than 20% 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, 49-3051 · BLS Employment Projections 2025 to 2035
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