Takeover Tracker
31%medium risk
Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators
vs

29 shared · 20 different

core competencies

35%medium risk
Precious Metal Workers

Side-by-Side Comparison

MetricFine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and IllustratorsPrecious Metal Workers
Risk Score30.5%35.1%
Risk TierMedium RiskMedium Risk
Risk Percentile42th66th
Tasks at Risk (>50%)4 / 157 / 15
Median Salary$60,560$49,140
Employment10K23K

Skill Comparison

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Sorted by largest difference

Design
Visual Color Discrimination
Originality
Fine Arts
Thinking Creatively
Mechanical
Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships
Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information
Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work
Fluency of Ideas
Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
Visualization

Protective Factors

Higher values indicate stronger protection against AI displacement

Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators

30%

total discount

Precious Metal Workers

26%

total discount

Task Risk Comparison

Tasks sorted by AI automation risk — higher means more automatable

Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators

4 of 15 at risk
85%Submit artwork to shows or galleries.
71%Maintain portfolios of artistic work to demonstrate styles, interests, and abilities.
55%Study styles, techniques, colors, textures, and materials used in works undergoing restoration to ensure consistency during the restoration process.
50%Integrate and develop visual elements, such as line, space, mass, color, and perspective, to produce desired effects, such as the illustration of ideas, emotions, or moods.
45%Render drawings, illustrations, and sketches of buildings, manufactured products, or models, working from sketches, blueprints, memory, models, or reference materials.

Precious Metal Workers

7 of 15 at risk
77%Weigh and mix alloy ingredients, using formulas and knowledge of ingredients' chemical properties.
63%Rotate molds to distribute alloys and to prevent formation of air pockets.
63%Carry castings or finished items to storage areas or to different work stations.
61%Rout out locations where parts are to be joined to items, using routing machines.
55%Examine articles to determine the nature of defects requiring repair, such as dents, uneven bottoms, scratches, or holes.

Wage Comparison

Precious Metal Workers earns -$11,420(-19%) vs Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators
Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and IllustratorsPrecious Metal Workers
10th
$26,420$33,890
25th
$39,740$38,030
Median
$60,560$49,140
75th
$89,630$63,210
90th
$140,660$81,610

Premium Head-to-Head Analysis

Displacement Timeline Comparison

Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators2028–2035
Precious Metal Workers2028–2035
20242030203520402045

Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators has a longer runway before significant displacement, projected 0 years later than Precious Metal Workers.

Risk-Adjusted Salary

Salary weighted by displacement risk: salary × (1 − risk%)

Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators

$42,077

from $60,560

Precious Metal Workers

$31,912

from $49,140

After adjusting for AI risk, Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators offers $10,166 more in risk-adjusted pay.

Transition Feasibility

1%

Skill Overlap

Low overlap — significant retraining needed for transition

0

Unique to Fine

0

Unique to Precious

Combined Protection Strategy

Regardless of which path you choose, focus on these protective factors

Creativity
Fine Manipulation
Regulatory Barriers
Decision Complexity
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