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	Helpers--Production Workers	First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers	Team Assemblers	Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers	Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators	Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand
SUMMARY	82% Imminent Risk	38% Low Risk	77% High Risk	74% High Risk	71% High Risk	73% High Risk
JOB SCORE	1.4/10	5.2/10	2.2/10	2.7/10	2.9/10	2.2/10
POLLING	79% (High Risk, Based on 75 votes)	54% (Moderate Risk, Based on 29 votes)	89% (Imminent Risk, Based on 85 votes)	66% (High Risk, Based on 53 votes)	70% (High Risk, Based on 103 votes)	77% (High Risk, Based on 80 votes)
GROWTH by year 2034	-8.9%	1.2%	-0.1%	0.0%	1.1%	1.5%
WAGES	$38,220 or $18.37 per hour	$71,190 or $34.22 per hour	$42,210 or $20.29 per hour	$47,460 or $22.82 per hour	$46,390 or $22.30 per hour	$38,940 or $18.72 per hour
VOLUME as of 2024	167,490	685,140	1,457,800	591,180	805,770	2,982,530
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DESCRIPTION	Help production workers by performing duties requiring less skill. Duties include supplying or holding materials or tools, and cleaning work area and equipment.	Directly supervise and coordinate the activities of production and operating workers, such as inspectors, precision workers, machine setters and operators, assemblers, fabricators, and plant and system operators. Excludes team or work leaders.	Work as part of a team having responsibility for assembling an entire product or component of a product. Team assemblers can perform all tasks conducted by the team in the assembly process and rotate through all or most of them, rather than being assigned to a specific task on a permanent basis. May participate in making management decisions affecting the work. Includes team leaders who work as part of the team.	Inspect, test, sort, sample, or weigh nonagricultural raw materials or processed, machined, fabricated, or assembled parts or products for defects, wear, and deviations from specifications. May use precision measuring instruments and complex test equipment.	Operate industrial trucks or tractors equipped to move materials around a warehouse, storage yard, factory, construction site, or similar location.	Manually move freight, stock, luggage, or other materials, or perform other general labor. Includes all manual laborers not elsewhere classified.

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