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What is this page & how do I use it?

This is a sector view — every construction career CareerStar rates, on the same neutral baseline, with field-level stats up top so you can size up the whole field at a glance.

How to use it: the table is ranked best-first. Click any career for its full report, and watch the moat column — 🏰 wide means well-shielded from AI, — means broadly exposed.

Careers
56
Median score
46
Avg growth
+1.9%
Wide moats
26/56

Every construction career, on a neutral baseline · median pay $55k · click a career for its full report · moat = how shielded from AI (🏰 wide = well-defended, 🛡 narrow = some shelter, — = broadly exposed)

CareerRatingMoatGrowthPay
Elevator and escalator installers and repairers★5.0 · 66🏰 Wide+5%$107k
Electricians★5.0 · 63🏰 Wide+9.5%$62k
Solar photovoltaic installers★5.0 · 62🏰 Wide+42.1%$52k
Floor layers, except carpet, wood, and hard tiles★5.0 · 61🛡 Narrow+9.5%$54k
Pile driver operators★4.5 · 60🏰 Wide+4.3%$71k
Tile and stone setters★4.5 · 59🛡 Narrow+10.1%$52k
First-line supervisors of construction trades and extraction workers★4.5 · 57🛡 Narrow+5.3%$79k
Structural iron and steel workers★4.5 · 57🏰 Wide+4.4%$63k
Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters★4.5 · 56🏰 Wide+4.5%$63k
Septic tank servicers and sewer pipe cleaners★4.5 · 55🛡 Narrow+7.6%$49k
Insulation workers, mechanical★4.5 · 54🏰 Wide+4.7%$57k
Reinforcing iron and rebar workers★4.5 · 54🛡 Narrow+4.6%$59k
Roofers★4.5 · 54🏰 Wide+5.9%$51k
Carpenters★4.0 · 53🏰 Wide+4.5%$59k
Construction laborers★4.0 · 53🛡 Narrow+7.3%$47k
Drywall and ceiling tile installers★4.0 · 53🛡 Narrow+4.2%$58k
Paperhangers★4.0 · 51🛡 Narrow+5.3%$48k
Plasterers and stucco masons★4.0 · 51🛡 Narrow+4.1%$56k
Brickmasons and blockmasons★4.0 · 50🛡 Narrow+3.2%$61k
Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators★4.0 · 50🛡 Narrow+3.6%$59k
Rail-track laying and maintenance equipment operators★3.5 · 48🏰 Wide+1.6%$67k
Fence erectors★3.5 · 47🏰 Wide+4.6%$47k
Glaziers★3.5 · 47🛡 Narrow+3.3%$55k
Helpers--roofers★3.5 · 47🏰 Wide+5.7%$41k
Rock splitters, quarry★3.5 · 47🛡 Narrow+4.4%$47k
Sheet metal workers★3.5 · 47🏰 Wide+2.4%$61k
Earth drillers, except oil and gas★3.5 · 46🛡 Narrow+2.9%$60k
Insulation workers, floor, ceiling, and wall★3.5 · 46🛡 Narrow+3.8%$49k
Painters, construction and maintenance★3.5 · 46🛡 Narrow+3.8%$49k
Paving, surfacing, and tamping equipment operators★3.5 · 46🛡 Narrow+3.2%$52k
Helpers--carpenters★3.5 · 45🏰 Wide+4.5%$42k
Continuous mining machine operators★3.5 · 44🏰 Wide+0.6%$63k
Helpers--pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters★3.5 · 44🏰 Wide+4.9%$39k
Tapers★3.5 · 44🛡 Narrow+0.1%$65k
Derrick operators, oil and gas★3.5 · 43🏰 Wide+0.5%$63k
Highway maintenance workers★3.5 · 43🏰 Wide+3%$49k
Rotary drill operators, oil and gas★3.5 · 43🛡 Narrow+0.2%$65k
Boilermakers★3.0 · 42🏰 Wide-2.4%$73k
Cement masons and concrete finishers★3.0 · 42🛡 Narrow+1.8%$55k
Floor sanders and finishers★3.0 · 42🛡 Narrow+2.6%$49k
Construction and building inspectors★3.0 · 41🛡 Narrow-0.8%$72k
Roustabouts, oil and gas★3.0 · 41🛡 Narrow+2.5%$48k
Service unit operators, oil and gas★3.0 · 39🏰 Wide+0.4%$58k
Excavating and loading machine and dragline operators, surface mining★3.0 · 37🏰 Wide-0.4%$53k
Explosives workers, ordnance handling experts, and blasters★3.0 · 37🛡 Narrow-0.9%$59k
Hazardous materials removal workers★3.0 · 36🛡 Narrow+1%$48k
Roof bolters, mining★3.0 · 35🏰 Wide-34.2%$77k
Helpers--painters, paperhangers, plasterers, and stucco masons★2.5 · 34🛡 Narrow+2.3%$38k
Loading and moving machine operators, underground mining★2.5 · 34🛡 Narrow-22.3%$69k
Stonemasons★2.5 · 33🛡 Narrow-3%$52k
Helpers--extraction workers★2.5 · 32🏰 Wide-1.7%$48k
Helpers--electricians★2.5 · 30🏰 Wide+0.2%$40k
Pipelayers★2.5 · 30🏰 Wide-4.1%$49k
Terrazzo workers and finishers★2.5 · 30🏰 Wide-11.1%$57k
Carpet installers★2.0 · 28🛡 Narrow-9.6%$50k
Helpers--brickmasons, blockmasons, stonemasons, and tile and marble setters★2.0 · 25🛡 Narrow-10.5%$46k