Headline risk
24%
Moderate RiskPressers, textile, garment, and related materials
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
Press or shape articles by hand or machine.
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 33,880
Employment 2024
28.4K
Projected Change (2024–34)
-13.5%
Openings (2024–34)
2.8K
Wage distribution
Demand outlook
Projections published, but no prose outlook available.
Role Profile
Tasks
- 1. Operate steam, hydraulic, or other pressing machines to remove wrinkles from garments and flatwork items, or to shape, form, or patch articles. AI use: 0%
- 2. Remove finished pieces from pressing machines and hang or stack them for cooling, or forward them for additional processing. AI use: 0%
- 3. Straighten, smooth, or shape materials to prepare them for pressing. AI use: 0%
- 4. Lower irons, rams, or pressing heads of machines into position over material to be pressed. AI use: 0%
- 5. Push and pull irons over surfaces of articles to smooth or shape them. AI use: 0%
- 6. Finish pleated garments, determining sizes of pleats from evidence of old pleats or from work orders, using machine presses or hand irons. AI use: 0%
Technologies
Requirements
Work context
Worker profile
Median age 42.1 · 40M employed
Under 25: 8% · 25–54: 71% · 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
Data quality
Employment data available
Narrative & sources
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.