# Media and Communication Equipment Workers

> SOC minor group 27-4000 within Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations — 8 detailed occupations.

- **SOC minor group:** 27-4000
- **Canonical URL:** https://singulariki.com/occupation-groups/media-and-communication-equipment-workers
- **Frame:** "AI exposure" means task overlap, not jobs lost. Figures below are aggregates over the group's member occupations, each traced to a named public dataset.

## Scale & pay

- **Employment (BLS OEWS, May 2024):** 231,910.
- **Median wage:** $63,495.
- **Projected growth (BLS 2024–34):** 1.5%.
- **Annual openings:** 31.4.

## AI exposure

- **AI task-overlap (mean across member occupations):** 44th percentile (Moderate) — Eloundou GPT-overlap + Felten AIOE; task overlap, not automation.

## Member occupations

- Audio and Video Technicians (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-27-4011-00) — $54,830; 0th percentile overlap
- Photographers (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-27-4021-00) — $42,520; 0th percentile overlap
- Film and Video Editors (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-27-4032-00) — $70,980; 0th percentile overlap
- Camera Operators, Television, Video, and Film (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-27-4031-00) — $68,810; 0th percentile overlap
- Broadcast Technicians (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-27-4012-00) — $53,920; 0th percentile overlap
- Sound Engineering Technicians (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-27-4014-00) — $66,430; 0th percentile overlap
- Media and Communication Equipment Workers, All Other (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-27-4099-00) — $67,190
- Lighting Technicians (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-27-4015-00) — $60,560; 0th percentile overlap

## Sources

- **O*NET** (30.3) — U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development. https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html
- **BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS)** (May 2024) — U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. https://www.bls.gov/oes/
- **BLS Employment Projections** (2024–2034) — U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. https://www.bls.gov/emp/
- **“GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.)** (arXiv 2303.10130) — OpenAI / academic. https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.10130
- **AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE)** (Felten, Raj & Seamans) — academic. https://github.com/AIOE-Data/AIOE

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_Generated from Singulariki's joined dataset; data snapshot 2026-06-02T20:31:11.516731+00:00. https://singulariki.com/occupation-groups/media-and-communication-equipment-workers_