Watch and Clock Repairers vs Maintenance and Repair Workers, General
Watch and Clock Repairers carries the higher exposed share at 18.3% against 15.7%, a gap of 2.6 points. The difference is driven by capability: a current system can simply produce more of the first job's work product than the second's. Release v2026.Q3.
| Occupation | Exposed | Assisted | Untouched | Capability | Friction | Median pay | Rank | Band |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Watch and Clock Repairers | 18.3% | 9.1% | 72.6% | 0.27 | 0.39 | $67,230 | 633 | untouched |
| Maintenance and Repair Workers, General | 15.7% | 8.0% | 76.4% | 0.24 | 0.39 | $49,590 | 694 | untouched |
What stands in the way, in each
Watch and Clock Repairers: the dominant friction is that the work happens to physical things in physical places. Capability sits at 0.27 of 1 and friction at 0.39 of 1.
Maintenance and Repair Workers, General: the dominant friction is that the work happens to physical things in physical places. Capability sits at 0.24 of 1 and friction at 0.39 of 1.
Capability asks whether a generally available system can produce the work product at all. Friction asks what stops it finishing the job: physical work, being present, being accountable, unseen context, or the cost of checking the output. The rubric is here.
Read each in full
Exposure is not displacement. A higher score does not rank two jobs by how safe they are, and nothing here models adoption, employment or pay.