Market signal
Independent published positions, read together — not a forecast.
- About average employment outlook (+2.0% by 2034)
- 1,000 openings/yr
- Median pay $67,080/yr
Occupation · SOC 49-9069.00
All precision instrument and equipment repairers not listed separately.
Also called: Apprentice Instrument Technician · Electrical Instrument Repairer · Gauge Checker · Gauge Controller · Gyro Compass Tester · Gyro Mechanic · Gyroscope Repairer · Gyroscopic Instrument Mechanic · Gyroscopic Instrument Tester · Hydrometer Calibrator · Instrument Man · Instrument Mechanic
Job family: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations
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A fast read on where AI already shows up in this occupation, where it stays a copilot, where humans remain in the loop, and what the labor market is doing. Built from observed Claude.ai conversations mapped to O*NET tasks and from published research — measures of usage and exposure, not advice or predictions that the job is going away.
Independent published positions, read together — not a forecast.
about 1,000 openings a year (+2% projected, BLS) . What exposure means →
What today's research says about this occupation's exposure to AI, how AI is actually being used in it, and where employment is headed. These are positions within published studies — measures of exposure and usage, not predictions that this job will disappear.
This is a broad “All Other” catch-all that groups many different jobs, so treat the figures below as a rough average for the category, not a precise estimate for any single role within it.
Independent U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics employment projection for 2024–2034 — a labor-market forecast, not an AI-impact forecast.
| Outlook | About average · +2.0% by 2034 |
| Projected annual openings | 1,000 |
| Employment 2024 → 2034 | 10,800 → 11,000 |
“Annual openings” counts new jobs plus replacements for workers who leave the occupation, so it can be large even when growth is modest.
The ILO's 2025 global study scores generative-AI exposure on the international ISCO-08 occupation system, not US SOC. Bridged through the published (and approximate, many-to-many) IBS O*NET-SOC ↔ ISCO-08 crosswalk, this US occupation corresponds to the international occupation below. Exposure here means how much of the work's tasks today's AI can attempt — task overlap, not automation, adoption, or jobs lost.
| International occupation (ISCO-08) | Task exposure (2025) | Most tasks fall in |
|---|---|---|
| Precision-instrument Makers and Repairers · 7311 | 21% | Not exposed |
Read the whole six-band gradient on the GenAI exposure gradient page. The crosswalk is approximate: a US occupation can map to several international ones, and the ILO scores describe the international occupation, not this exact US role.
What to study: Engineering/Engineering-Related Technologies/Technicians , Mechanic and Repair Technologies/Technicians . Fields of study crosswalked to this occupation (NCES CIP–SOC), not a requirement.
U.S. · annual wages (BLS OEWS)
| 10th percentile | $44,530 |
| 25th percentile | $52,090 |
| Median (50th) | $67,080 |
| 75th percentile | $82,030 |
| 90th percentile | $100,730 |
| People employed | 9,680 |
Where these workers are employed, by number of jobs (national, BLS OEWS). Pay shown is the occupation's national median, not industry-specific.
| Industry | Workers | National median pay |
|---|---|---|
| Other Services (except Public Administration) · Sector | 2,750 | $56,890 |
| Wholesale Trade · Sector | 1,720 | $61,080 |
| Manufacturing · Sector | 1,320 | $77,400 |
| Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services · Sector | 1,010 | $79,990 |
| Testing Laboratories and Services · National industry | 200 | $51,190 |
| Utilities · Sector | 150 | $104,110 |
| Educational Services · Sector | 150 | $67,340 |
| Real Estate and Rental and Leasing · Sector | 140 | $58,240 |
| Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services · Sector | 130 | — |
| Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction · Sector | 100 | $110,960 |
| Nuclear Electric Power Generation · National industry | 90 | $117,300 |
| Transportation and Warehousing · Sector | 60 | $85,450 |
Industries where this occupation is far more common than in the economy as a whole. The location quotient is how many times more concentrated it is here (a value of 5 means five times its economy-wide share).
| Industry | Concentration | Workers |
|---|---|---|
| Testing Laboratories and Services · National industry | 18.7× | 200 |
| Other Services (except Public Administration) · Sector | 9.9× | 2,750 |
| Wholesale Trade · Sector | 4.54× | 1,720 |
| Utilities · Sector | 4.12× | 150 |
| Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction · Sector | 2.78× | 100 |
| Manufacturing · Sector | 1.65× | 1,320 |
| Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services · Sector | 1.49× | 1,010 |
| Real Estate and Rental and Leasing · Sector | 0.94× | 140 |
Options the data surfaces for Precision Instrument and Equipment Repairers, All Other — not advice or a forecast. Each is a real cross-link you can follow into the evidence.
How people typically prepare for this work.
On the global GenAI exposure gradient this work sits around the 37th percentile of 427 international occupations.
Precision Instrument and Equipment Repairers, All Other: $67,080 median pay, employment about average through 2034
Precision Instrument and Equipment Repairers, All Other: $67,080 median pay, employment about average through 2034 • The occupation is projected to see about 1,000 U.S. job openings per year (2024–34), counting growth and replacement — a labor-demand projection made independently of AI. (BLS Employment Projections 2024–34) • BLS projects employment to be about average (+2%) from 2024 to 2034. (BLS Employment Projections 2024–34) • Median annual pay is $67,080, across about 9,680 U.S. workers. (BLS OEWS (May 2024)) Source: Singulariki — "Precision Instrument and Equipment Repairers, All Other". https://singulariki.com/roles/role-49-9069-00 Note: AI task overlap measures what today's AI can attempt, not automation, job loss, or a forecast.
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Every line is built only from figures this page already shows and cites. AI task overlap means what today's AI can attempt — not automation, job loss, or a forecast.
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.
Singulariki. "Precision Instrument and Equipment Repairers, All Other." 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; ILO / Gmyrek et al. GenAI exposure gradient 2025; IBS O*NET-SOC ↔ ISCO-08 occupation crosswalk 2022. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/roles/role-49-9069-00
Singulariki. (2026). Precision Instrument and Equipment Repairers, All Other. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/roles/role-49-9069-00
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