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Will AI replace Home Appliance Technician?
Installation, Maintenance, and Repair · $50,990 median pay · High school
Automation exposure
How much of the work AI can already do
More exposed than 8% of the occupations in the index.
Averaged across 29 O*NET tasks, weighted by importance.
AI assistance potential
How much AI tools make the worker more capable
Home Appliance Repairers rely primarily on hands-on physical labor, such as disassembling appliances, tracing circuits with physical tools, and replacing mechanical and electrical parts. While AI tools can provide marginal productivity gains by enabling faster searches through complex technical manuals, converting error codes into diagnostic trees, and assisting with administrative tasks like invoicing and scheduling, the core physical repair and diagnostic processes remain largely unaffected by AI.
What the work involves and who it suits, beyond AI.
What the two scores mean
Automation exposure is how much of the work current AI can already perform. A high score means the tasks are exposed, not that the job will disappear: how employers use that is a separate question.
AI assistance potential is how much AI tools make a worker in this occupation more capable. It is upside, not risk — a job can score high on both.
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