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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Highway Maintenance Worker” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #511 of 702. Estimated risk: 87.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

47%

“Highway Maintenance Worker” will probably not be replaced by AI.

Based on the cognitive demands, communication requirements, and logical reasoning intrinsic to this occupation according to O*NET data, we project a 47% probability of disruption by generative AI and Large Language Models.

Automation & Robot Risk

60%

“Highway Maintenance Worker” will maybe be replaced by robots.

Evaluating the physical dexterity, repetitive motion tasks, and manual labor associated with this role, our analysis indicates a 60% likelihood of substitution by advanced robotics systems.

Personal & Financial Insights

Every occupation has a unique profile. For Highway Maintenance Workers, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and O*NET classify the day-to-day work broadly as: Maintain highways, municipal and rural roads, airport runways, and rights-of-way. Duties include patching broken or eroded pavement and repairing guard rails, highway markers, and snow fences. May also mow or clear brush from along road, or plow snow from roadway.

Avg. Annual Salary $51,410
Avg. Hourly Wage $24.72
Available Jobs (US) 151,750
Job Title & Hierarchy Code (SOC) Highway Maintenance Workers #47-4051
Wage vs. National Median
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Data is based on the reference occupation: “Highway Maintenance Workers”

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Core Skills & Abilities

  • Flag motorists to warn them of obstacles or repair work ahead.

  • Dump, spread, and tamp asphalt, using pneumatic tampers, to repair joints and patch broken pavement.

  • Paint traffic control lines and place pavement traffic messages, by hand or using machines.

  • Set out signs and cones around work areas to divert traffic.

  • Drive heavy equipment and vehicles with adjustable attachments to sweep debris from paved surfaces, mow grass and weeds, remove snow and ice, and spread salt and sand.

  • Perform roadside landscaping work, such as clearing weeds and brush, and planting and trimming trees.

  • Apply poisons along roadsides and in animal burrows to eliminate unwanted roadside vegetation and rodents.

  • Perform preventative maintenance on vehicles and heavy equipment.

  • Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.

  • Clean and clear debris from culverts, catch basins, drop inlets, ditches, and other drain structures.

  • Blend compounds to form adhesive mixtures used for marker installation.

  • Measure and mark locations for installation of markers, using tape, string, or chalk.

  • Inspect markers to verify accurate installation.

  • Remove litter and debris from roadways, including debris from rock and mud slides.

  • Inspect, clean, and repair drainage systems, bridges, tunnels, and other structures.

  • Drive trucks to transport crews and equipment to work sites.

  • Place and remove snow fences used to prevent the accumulation of drifting snow on highways.

  • Erect, install, or repair guardrails, road shoulders, berms, highway markers, warning signals, and highway lighting, using hand tools and power tools.

  • Haul and spread sand, gravel, and clay to fill washouts and repair road shoulders.

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  • Air compressors
  • Towable barricades
  • Medium pressure hydraulic pumps
  • Low boys
  • Draglines
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  • Platform trucks
  • Sand spreaders
  • Mounted pavement breakers
  • Bush axes
  • Self-propelled cranes
  • Belly dump tractor trailers
  • Truck low-bed trailer combos
  • 10-ton crawlers
  • Tractor disc attachments
  • Theodolites
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  • Snoopers
  • Hydraulic spreaders
  • Sewer eels
  • Chip spreaders
  • Jackhammers
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  • Picks
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  • Laser printers
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  • Multipurpose vacuum street sweepers
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  • Hammers
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  • Patch rollers less than 9 tons
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  • Gradalls
  • Four-wheel drive front end loaders
  • Rear brush hog mowers
  • Adjustable wrenches
  • Spades
  • Push mowers
  • Forklifts
  • Laydown machines
  • Cold planers
  • Flatbed trailers
  • Pavement grinders
  • 30-ton clam buckets
  • Berm drag tractors
  • Sandblasters
  • Truck-mounted pavement striping machines
  • Sewer cleaners
  • Athey loaders
  • Pavement joint sealers
  • Pavement rollers
  • Hole diggers/augers
  • Stone box spreaders
  • Generators
  • Hydraulic excavators
  • High-pressure hydraulic pumps
  • Wheeled hydraulic booms
  • Rakes
  • Water trucks
  • Rear flail mowers
  • Concrete saws
  • Stump cutters
  • Tar kettles
  • Impact wrenches
  • Two-wheel drive front end loaders
  • Tanker trucks
  • Chemical sprayers
  • Rotary snowplows
  • Swiss hammers
  • Screwdrivers
  • Concrete mixers
  • Machetes
  • Paint transfer pumps
  • Desktop computers
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  • Tar distributors
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  • Weedeaters
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  • Snowplows
  • Ditchers
  • Seeders
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  • Bituminous pavers
  • Side-mount rotary mowers
  • Scissor trucks
  • Light trucks
  • Computerized weed spray trucks
  • Rock cutters
  • Shovels
  • 10-ton tandem-axle dump trucks
  • Rock drills
  • Bucket trucks
  • Aggregate spreaders
  • Two way radios
  • Gas transporters
  • Paint guns
  • Chain saws
  • Truck mounted excavators
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