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Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairers
Mostly untouched
AI barely touches this work so far. The BLS expects 3.4% fewer of these jobs by 2035.
- Rank
- Joint #637 of 785 jobs, by how much of the work AI does
- US jobs, 2025 to 2035
- -3.4% All jobs: +3.5%
- Median US pay
- $74,330 a year, 2025
- People doing it
- 103,400 in the US, with about 8,000 openings a year
The work, 17 activities
The job description, marked up.
Every activity in this job, the biggest first. Tap a line for the evidence.
- deleAI does this
- +AIAI helps
- stetStill yours
AI helps with this: Connect components or supply lines to equipment or tools19%
People asked AI for help with this in about 1 in 1,570 conversations, and it got them there 96% of the time.
AI helps with this: Test performance of equipment or systems11%
People asked AI for help with this in about 1 in 1,100 conversations, and it got them there 92% of the time.
Still yours: Install commercial or production equipment8%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
AI helps with this: Adjust equipment to ensure adequate performance6%
People asked AI for help with this in about 1 in 510 conversations, and it got them there 94% of the time.
Still yours: Perform general construction or extraction activities6%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Climb equipment or structures5%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Operate transportation equipment or vehicles5%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Clean tools, equipment, facilities, or work areas5%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Maintain tools or equipment5%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Inspect commercial, industrial, or production systems or equipment5%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
AI helps with this: Analyze performance of systems or equipment5%
People asked AI for help with this in about 1 in 563 conversations, and it got them there 90% of the time.
AI does this: Explain technical details of products or services5%
AI performed this in about 1 in 43 Copilot conversations and completed it 91% of the time.
Still yours: Collect fares or payments5%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Build structures4%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
AI helps with this: Determine resource needs of projects or operations3%
People asked AI for help with this in about 1 in 1,590 conversations, and it got them there 92% of the time.
Still yours: Move materials, equipment, or supplies2%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Operate lifting or moving equipment1%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
2025 to 2035
Ten years from now.
For every 100 of these jobs in 2025, the BLS projects 97 in 2035. Across all US jobs, about 104.
Even shrinking, it should still see about 8,000 openings a year as people retire or move on.
Nearby
Where your skills travel.
The jobs closest to this one. None of them is much less exposed.
- Shares 56% of the workElectrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers4% AI does, against 5% here+10.3% by 2035 · $95,320 · High school diploma
- Shares 55% of the workTelecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers9% AI does, against 5% here-3.3% by 2035 · $63,890 · Postsecondary certificate
- Shares 50% of the workRadio, Cellular, and Tower Equipment Installers and Repairers7% AI does, against 5% here+1.2% by 2035 · $63,520 · Associate’s degree
The wire
On the wire.
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deleAI does this. In US Bing Copilot conversations from January to September 2024, AI itself performed the activity, completed it and made a real difference often enough to count.
+AIAI helps. People brought the activity to AI as their own goal, and it usually got them there.
stetStill yours. It barely shows up in AI use, AI rarely finishes it, or in this job it needs hands.
Shares are weighted by how much each activity matters in the job, using O*NET. Microsoft’s own AI applicability score for this job is 0.17, higher than 58% of jobs.
Doing an activity is not doing a job. The researchers behind this data warn against reading it as job loss, and so do we. It is US data; the shape of the work travels.
Sources: Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025) · O*NET OnLine, 49-9052 · BLS Employment Projections 2025 to 2035
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