Headline risk
3%
Very Low RiskBoilermakers
AI displacement pressure score for United States AI Work Index, combining global AI task overlap with local wages, employment trends, and demand signals.
Why This Score
Share of job tasks that overlap with current AI capabilities
Median annual wage
Projected employment change over 10 years
Typical preparation needed for this occupation
Occupation profile
Construct, assemble, maintain, and repair stationary steam boilers and boiler house auxiliaries. Align structures or plate sections to assemble boiler frame tanks or vats, following blueprints. Work involves use of hand and power tools, plumb bobs, levels, wedges, dogs, or turnbuckles. Assist in testing assembled vessels. Direct cleaning of boilers and boiler furnaces. Inspect and repair boiler fittings, such as safety valves, regulators, automatic-control mechanisms, water columns, and auxiliary machines.
Task evidence
92% weighted task match · 0% effective coverage
Scores combine AI task overlap, human advantages, and local demand. How it works
United States Now
Median Wage
USD 73,340
Employment 2024
10.4K
Projected Change (2024–34)
-2.4%
Openings (2024–34)
0.8K
Wage distribution
Demand outlook
Employment of boilermakers is projected to grow 2 percent from 2024 to 2034, decline.
Role Profile
Tasks
- 1. Conduct pressure tests on vessels, such as boilers.
- 2. Examine boilers, pressure vessels, tanks, or vats to locate defects, such as leaks, weak spots, or defective sections, so that they can be repaired. AI use: 0%
- 3. Inspect assembled vessels or individual components, such as tubes, fittings, valves, controls, or auxiliary mechanisms, to locate any defects. AI use: 0%
- 4. Study blueprints to determine locations, relationships, or dimensions of parts. AI use: 0%
- 5. Clean pressure vessel equipment, using scrapers, wire brushes, and cleaning solvents. AI use: 0%
- 6. Repair or replace defective pressure vessel parts, such as safety valves or regulators, using torches, jacks, caulking hammers, power saws, threading dies, welding equipment, or metalworking machinery. AI use: 0%
Technologies
Requirements
Work context
Worker profile
Median age 48.6 · 108K employed
Under 25: 2% · 25–54: 63% · 55+: 36%
Related
Source coverage
11/11 source families · O*NET 30.2 / OEWS 2024 / ORS 2025 / OOH 2025-08-28 / Projections 2024-34 / CPS 2025 / Anthropic task penetration
Data quality
Employment data available
Narrative & sources
Boilermakers assemble, install, maintain, and repair boilers, closed vats, and other large vessels or containers that hold liquids and gases.
Boilermakers do physically demanding work. They may travel to worksites and be away from home for extended periods.
Boilermakers typically learn their trade through an apprenticeship program.
The median annual wage for boilermakers was $73,340 in May 2024.
Employment of boilermakers is projected to grow 2 percent from 2024 to 2034, decline.
Important context
This score measures structural AI displacement pressure, not actual job losses. Local wages and demand data are specific to United States AI Work Index; the underlying AI task overlap analysis is consistent across all countries.