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Home Appliance Repairers vs Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers

Side-by-side · O*NET · BLS · AI-exposure research · Anthropic Economic Index

A factual, source-backed comparison of Home Appliance Repairers and Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers on the dimensions both occupations carry. Every figure is a position within an independent published dataset — not a verdict on which job is better, safer, or more “future-proof.”

Home Appliance Repairers Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers
Median pay · BLS OEWS
$49,410
$38,860
Employment · BLS OEWS
31,940
97,540
AI exposure (percentile) · task overlap, not automation
40th pct
15th pct

At a glance

Dimension Home Appliance Repairers Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers
Median pay $49,410 $38,860
Employment 31,940 97,540
Employment outlook (2024–34) · BLS projection About average (+2.6%) About average (+2.3%)
Annual openings · BLS projection 3,100 11,800
Typical education · O*NET Usually requires a high school diploma or GED, though some occupations may not. Usually requires a high school diploma or GED, though some occupations may not.
AI exposure · published exposure studies Moderate · 40th pct Low · 15th pct
Global GenAI gradient · ILO ISCO-08 · via crosswalk 24th pct · 17% of tasks 4th pct · 11% of tasks
Observed AI use · Anthropic Economic Index — —
Mostly remote-capable · Dingel–Neiman No No

Pay and employment are BLS OEWS estimates; outlook and openings are BLS 2024–2034 projections; AI exposure and observed-use figures come from separate research and reflect exposure and usage, not predictions that either job will disappear. Compare like with like.

Skills

Shared: Customer and Personal Service, Mechanical, Repairing, Arm-Hand Steadiness, Critical Thinking, Oral Expression, Problem Sensitivity, Manual Dexterity, Finger Dexterity, Near Vision, Equipment Maintenance, Troubleshooting, Oral Comprehension, Speaking, Operations Monitoring, Quality Control Analysis, English Language, Active Listening, Computers and Electronics, Information Ordering, Visualization, Extent Flexibility, Deductive Reasoning, Engineering and Technology, Flexibility of Closure, Selective Attention.

Specific to Home Appliance Repairers

  • Administration and Management
  • Administrative
  • Sales and Marketing
  • Reading Comprehension
  • Complex Problem Solving
  • Written Comprehension
  • Service Orientation
  • Equipment Selection

Specific to Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers

  • Building and Construction
  • Control Precision
  • Public Safety and Security
  • Multilimb Coordination
  • Mathematics
  • Design
  • Production and Processing
  • Monitoring

Knowledge, skills & abilities O*NET rates as important for each occupation. “Shared” are common to both; the columns list what is distinctive to each (top by the order O*NET surfaces).

Tools & technology

Shared: Spreadsheet software , Office suite software , Electronic mail software , Operating system software , Word processing software , Data base user interface and query software .

Specific to Home Appliance Repairers

Specific to Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers

Full profiles

This page is a summary. See the complete source-backed profile for Home Appliance Repairers or Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers — tasks, the full skill graph, tools, work context, preparation, wages by percentile, industries, AI exposure and the AI work map.

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Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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Singulariki. "Home Appliance Repairers vs Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; BLS Employment Projections 2024–2034; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); Microsoft “Working with AI” working-with-ai; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans; ILO / Gmyrek et al. GenAI exposure gradient 2025; IBS O*NET-SOC ↔ ISCO-08 occupation crosswalk 2022; Frey & Osborne (2013) frey-osborne-automation; Dingel & Neiman (2020) dingel-neiman-workathome. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/compare/home-appliance-repairers-vs-helpers-installation-maintenance-and-repair-workers

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Singulariki. (2026). Home Appliance Repairers vs Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/compare/home-appliance-repairers-vs-helpers-installation-maintenance-and-repair-workers

BibTeX 
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  title  = {Home Appliance Repairers vs Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers},
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