Construction Laborers
Construction, Maintenance & RepairAI exposure
- Data source: BLSPublished: '26.08
Low· relative
LowFour relative bandsVery highGroup-level value
Scale, basis and source
Four relative bands (Low / Moderate / High / Very high)
831 detailed occupations in the BLS Employment Projections table. Assigned per National Employment Matrix (NEM) code, so occupations sharing a NEM code carry the same band
- Data source: AnthropicPublished: '26.03
0.028
0.000Range of values carried here0.745Scale, basis and source
- Data source: ILOPublished: '25
0.09
0.09Range of values carried here0.70Group-level value
Scale, basis and source
Generative AI exposure index, 0–1 as published
ISCO-08 unit group — every occupation sharing the code gets this value
Computed by this site, not published by the ILO: of the 1,012 occupations this site links to the ILO dataset, 100% score at or above this value.
What kind of figure this source publishes
The BLS category is a relative rank, not an absolute level, and it is not a first-hand measurement: it groups an occupation's percentile ranks across several published studies into four bands. It is not an employment or wage forecast, not a probability of adoption, and it does not separate automation from augmentation.
Task-level exposure
Show 30 hidden tasks| Task | Claude.aiRaw / share % | APIRaw / share % |
|---|---|---|
Read plans, instructions, or specifications to determine work activities.47-2061 | 0.002541.0 | 0.0093100.0 |
Provide assistance to craft workers, such as carpenters, plasterers, or masons.47-2061 | 0.001931.1 | —0 |
Measure, mark, or record openings or distances to layout areas where construction work will be performed.47-2061 | 0.001727.9 | —0 |
Values in this tab are predicted labels, not observations. Eloundou et al. (2023) published two rating regimes — human raters and GPT-4 — and the β shown here is derived from the GPT-4 rater basis alone; the same task can take a different value under the other regime. The unit and the meaning differ from the observed shares (%) in the other tabs, so do not place them on the same axis.
| Task | βE1 + 0.5 × E2 |
|---|---|
Read plans, instructions, or specifications to determine work activities.O*NET Task ID 11456 | 0.5 |
Measure, mark, or record openings or distances to layout areas where construction work will be performed.O*NET Task ID 11461 | 0.5 |
β = E1 + 0.5 × E2 · E1 = tasks where direct LLM access alone cuts time by at least 50%, E2 = tasks where software built on top of an LLM cuts time by at least 50%. Values take only 0 / 0.5 / 1.0.
Data sources & licenses — O*NET®, Anthropic Economic Index, Eloundou et al. (2023): see full notices on the Credits page
Occupation information
Recent Changes Affecting This Occupation
Mar 2026: Published evergreen blog post analyzing AI impact on construction laborers (4% automation risk)
[Source: Blog Wave 19]