Market signal
Independent published positions, read together — not a forecast.
- About average employment outlook (+0.5% by 2034)
- 31,600 openings/yr
- Low AI exposure
- Median pay $38,820/yr
- Work is mostly on-site (not teleworkable)
Occupation · SOC 51-9199.00
All production workers not listed separately.
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Job family: Production 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.
4th-percentile task overlap — yet about 31,600 openings a year (+0.5% 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.
Each study uses its own scale, so the raw scores are not comparable across rows — the percentile (this job's rank among all U.S. occupations with data) is the comparable figure, and sizes the bars.
| Measure | Rank vs all occupations | Percentile | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall AI exposure (Felten et al.) Low | 8th | -1.3 |
This job mostly cannot be done remotely (Dingel–Neiman) — its hands-on tasks sit outside what software-based AI reaches.
Independent U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics employment projection for 2024–2034 — a labor-market forecast, not an AI-impact forecast.
| Outlook | About average · +0.5% by 2034 |
| Projected annual openings | 31,600 |
| Employment 2024 → 2034 | 292,800 → 294,300 |
“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 |
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturing Labourers Not Elsewhere Classified · 9329 | 12% | 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.
U.S. · annual wages (BLS OEWS)
| 10th percentile | $30,370 |
| 25th percentile | $35,080 |
| Median (50th) | $38,820 |
| 75th percentile | $47,550 |
| 90th percentile | $59,600 |
| People employed | 277,060 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturing · Sector | 128,800 | $44,360 |
| Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services · Sector | 103,750 | $36,850 |
| Temporary Help Services · National industry | 92,230 | $36,780 |
| Wholesale Trade · Sector | 16,010 | $38,200 |
| Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services · Sector | 5,300 | $47,430 |
| Health Care and Social Assistance · Sector | 4,790 | $31,200 |
| Retail Trade · Sector | 4,170 | $35,940 |
| Transportation and Warehousing · Sector | 3,060 | $44,270 |
| Construction · Sector | 2,130 | $38,810 |
| Management of Companies and Enterprises · Sector | 2,010 | $48,440 |
| Utilities · Sector | 1,560 | $101,330 |
| Machine Shops · National industry | 1,030 | $40,970 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Temporary Help Services · National industry | 19.36× | 92,230 |
| Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services · Sector | 6.39× | 103,750 |
| Manufacturing · Sector | 5.62× | 128,800 |
| Machine Shops · National industry | 2.21× | 1,030 |
| Utilities · Sector | 1.5× | 1,560 |
| Wholesale Trade · Sector | 1.48× | 16,010 |
| Newspaper Publishers · National industry | 0.92× | 150 |
| Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction · Sector | 0.77× | 790 |
Options the data surfaces for Production Workers, 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 8th percentile of 427 international occupations.
Production Workers, All Other show 4th-percentile AI task overlap — and about 31,600 annual U.S. openings
Production Workers, All Other show 4th-percentile AI task overlap — and about 31,600 annual U.S. openings • Production Workers, All Other rank in the 4th percentile (Low band) for AI task overlap across U.S. occupations — a measure of how much of the work today's AI can attempt, not how much is automated. (Eloundou et al. (GPTs are GPTs) + Felten AIOE) • The occupation is projected to see about 31,600 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 (+0.5%) from 2024 to 2034. (BLS Employment Projections 2024–34) • Median annual pay is $38,820, across about 277,060 U.S. workers. (BLS OEWS (May 2024)) Source: Singulariki — "Production Workers, All Other". https://singulariki.com/roles/role-51-9199-00 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. "Production Workers, 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; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans; ILO / Gmyrek et al. GenAI exposure gradient 2025; IBS O*NET-SOC ↔ ISCO-08 occupation crosswalk 2022; Dingel & Neiman (2020) dingel-neiman-workathome. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/roles/role-51-9199-00
Singulariki. (2026). Production Workers, All Other. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/roles/role-51-9199-00
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note = {O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; BLS Employment Projections 2024–2034; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans; ILO / Gmyrek et al. GenAI exposure gradient 2025; IBS O*NET-SOC ↔ ISCO-08 occupation crosswalk 2022; Dingel & Neiman (2020) dingel-neiman-workathome. Accessed June 7, 2026},
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