# Woodworkers

> SOC minor group 51-7000 within Production Occupations — 7 detailed occupations.

- **SOC minor group:** 51-7000
- **Canonical URL:** https://singulariki.com/occupation-groups/woodworkers
- **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):** 207,390.
- **Median wage:** $42,530.
- **Projected growth (BLS 2024–34):** -1.7%.
- **Annual openings:** 23.2.

## AI exposure

- **AI task-overlap (mean across member occupations):** 18th percentile (Low) — Eloundou GPT-overlap + Felten AIOE; task overlap, not automation.

## Member occupations

- Cabinetmakers and Bench Carpenters (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-51-7011-00) — $46,020; 0th percentile overlap
- Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-51-7042-00) — $40,440; 0th percentile overlap
- Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-51-7041-00) — $39,950; 0th percentile overlap
- Furniture Finishers (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-51-7021-00) — $42,530; 0th percentile overlap
- Woodworkers, All Other (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-51-7099-00) — $41,220
- Model Makers, Wood (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-51-7031-00) — $51,850; 0th percentile overlap
- Patternmakers, Wood (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-51-7032-00) — $52,520; 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/woodworkers_