Headline risk
7%
Low RiskElevator and escalator installers and repairers
United States AI Work Index tracks this occupation on the shared structural baseline and then layers on local demand resilience, wages, and confidence.
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
Assemble, install, repair, or maintain electric or hydraulic freight or passenger elevators, escalators, or dumbwaiters.
Task evidence
100% 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 106,580
Employment 2024
24.2K
Projected Change (2024–34)
5.0%
Openings (2024–34)
2.0K
Wage distribution
Demand outlook
Employment of elevator and escalator installers and repairers is projected to grow 5 percent from 2024 to 2034, faster than the average for all occupations.
Role Profile
Tasks
- 1. Inspect wiring connections, control panel hookups, door installations, and alignments and clearances of cars and hoistways to ensure that equipment will operate properly. AI use: 0%
- 2. Locate malfunctions in brakes, motors, switches, and signal and control systems, using test equipment. AI use: 0%
- 3. Maintain log books that detail all repairs and checks performed. AI use: 0%
- 4. Disassemble defective units, and repair or replace parts such as locks, gears, cables, and electric wiring. AI use: 0%
- 5. Adjust safety controls, counterweights, door mechanisms, and components such as valves, ratchets, seals, and brake linings. AI use: 0%
- 6. Assemble, install, repair, and maintain elevators, escalators, moving sidewalks, and dumbwaiters, using hand and power tools, and testing devices such as test lamps, ammeters, and voltmeters. AI use: 0%
Technologies
Requirements
Work context
Worker profile
Median age 43.5 · 110K employed
Under 25: 10% · 25–54: 68% · 55+: 21%
Related
No direct US role match is available yet for this occupation.
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
Mapping quality
title_match · employment series present
Narrative & sources
Elevator and escalator installers and repairers install, maintain, and fix elevators, escalators, moving walkways, and other lifts.
Elevator and escalator installers and repairers often work in cramped areas inside crawl spaces and machine rooms, and they may work at heights in elevator shafts. Most elevator and escalator installers and repairers work full time. Repairers may be on call 24 hours a day or may need to work overtime.
Elevator and escalator installers and repairers typically need a high school diploma or equivalent. Nearly all learn how to do the work through an apprenticeship. Most states require workers to be licensed.
The median annual wage for elevator and escalator installers and repairers was $106,580 in May 2024.
Employment of elevator and escalator installers and repairers is projected to grow 5 percent from 2024 to 2034, faster than the average for all occupations.
Published limitations
This page shows the local country layer, not realised individual job outcomes. The global structural baseline is shared across countries; only the local demand and wage layer changes here.
Built from O*NET occupation descriptions, task statements, technology skills, work context, Job Zones, Anthropic task penetration, BLS OEWS wages, BLS projection tables, BLS ORS requirements, BLS OOH narrative content, BLS skills data, and BLS CPS occupation age tables.