Headline risk
13%
Low RiskJewelers and precious stone and metal workers
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
Design, fabricate, adjust, repair, or appraise jewelry, gold, silver, other precious metals, or gems.
Task evidence
93% 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 49,140
Employment 2024
35.1K
Projected Change (2024–34)
-5.5%
Openings (2024–34)
4.0K
Wage distribution
Demand outlook
Employment of jewelers and precious stone and metal workers is projected to grow 5 percent from 2024 to 2034, decline.
Role Profile
Tasks
- 1. Examine assembled or finished products to ensure conformance to specifications, using magnifying glasses or precision measuring instruments. AI use: 0%
- 2. Clean and polish metal items and jewelry pieces, using jewelers' tools, polishing wheels, and chemical baths. AI use: 0%
- 3. Create jewelry from materials such as gold, silver, platinum, and precious or semiprecious stones. AI use: 0%
- 4. Examine gems during processing to ensure accuracy of angles and positions of cuts or bores, using magnifying glasses, loupes, or shadowgraphs. AI use: 0%
- 5. Smooth soldered joints and rough spots, using hand files and emery paper, and polish smoothed areas with polishing wheels or buffing wire. AI use: 0%
- 6. Cut and file pieces of jewelry such as rings, brooches, bracelets, and lockets. AI use: 0%
Technologies
Requirements
Work context
Worker profile
Median age 44.5 · 307K employed
Under 25: 7% · 25–54: 67% · 55+: 27%
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
crosswalk_exact · employment series present
Narrative & sources
Jewelers and precious stone and metal workers design, construct, adjust, repair, appraise and sell jewelry and related products.
Jewelers and precious stone and metal workers may spend much of their time at a workbench or polishing station, using tools and chemicals. Most work full time.
Jewelers and precious stone and metal workers typically need a high school diploma to enter the occupation, and they learn their skills on the job. Some workers complete an apprenticeship or trade school program.
The median annual wage for jewelers and precious stone and metal workers was $49,140 in May 2024.
Employment of jewelers and precious stone and metal workers is projected to grow 5 percent from 2024 to 2034, decline.
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.