Headline risk
23%
Moderate RiskModel makers, wood
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 full-size and scale wooden precision models of products. Includes wood jig builders and loft workers.
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 51,850
Employment 2024
0.9K
Projected Change (2024–34)
-4.5%
Openings (2024–34)
0.1K
Wage distribution
Demand outlook
Projections published, but no prose outlook available.
Role Profile
Tasks
- 1. Read blueprints, drawings, or written specifications, and consult with designers to determine sizes and shapes of patterns and required machine setups. AI use: 0%
- 2. Verify dimensions and contours of models during hand-forming processes, using templates and measuring devices. AI use: 0%
- 3. Fit, fasten, and assemble wood parts together to form patterns, models, or sections, using glue, nails, dowels, bolts, screws, and other fasteners. AI use: 0%
- 4. Trim, smooth, and shape surfaces, and plane, shave, file, scrape, and sand models to attain specified shapes, using hand tools. AI use: 0%
- 5. Set up, operate, and adjust a variety of woodworking machines such as bandsaws and planers to cut and shape sections, parts, and patterns, according to specifications. AI use: 0%
- 6. Construct wooden models, patterns, templates, full scale mock-ups, and molds for parts of products and production tools. AI use: 0%
Technologies
Requirements
Work context
Related
No direct US role match is available yet for this occupation.
Source coverage
10/11 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.