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Index›Installation, Maintenance, and Repair›Industrial Machinery Mechanics

Industrial Machinery Mechanics

Repair, install, adjust, or maintain industrial production and processing machinery or refinery and pipeline distribution systems.

US jobs

440K

Avg. wage

$33/h

GDP output/y

$103B

Tasks

AI Parity

12%

Related occupationsMaintenance Workers, Machinery · Electric Motor, Power Tool, and Related Repairers · Multiple Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic · Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Except Engines · Engine and Other Machine Assemblers · Milling and Planing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic · Grinding, Lapping, Polishing, and Buffing Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic · Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door

Tasks

				Human	Best AI
#	Task ↕O*NET 30.1 · DOL	Output/y ▴est. · BEA + BLS	Verification method ↕est. · rubric v1	Qualitymeasured baseline	Configurationverified runs	Qualitysame test	vs human× output · − pts
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O*NET-SOC 49-9041.00 · tasks and importance from O*NET 30.1 · jobs and wages BLS OEWS May 2025 · GDP by industry BEA 2025