Construction Laborers
Manual & Construction
SOC 47-2061
~1.0M US jobs
Median $45,300
OFI
2.5
transformation pressure
Unstructured physical labor is robotics-limited, not LLM-exposed; AIOE rates manual construction low, with automation gated by hardware not AI capability. — AIOE; OECD; Frey-Osborne
Task transformation under adoption
Share of tasks automated / augmented / human, projected via Bass-diffusion adoption. Scenario, not a prediction.
Exposure profile
Representative tasks
- Prepare construction sites
- Operate hand and power tools
- Move materials
- Assist trades
- Follow safety protocols
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We model task transformation, not job loss. OFI and its projections are scenario estimates grounded in published AI-exposure frameworks — model outputs, not predictions of employment outcomes.