Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers
Assemble, install, repair, or maintain electric or hydraulic freight or passenger elevators, escalators, or dumbwaiters.
23,790 people do this job in the US. $109,910 a year.
of the working time. Estimate.
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- 95%
Measured, from Anthropic's usage data (2025). Counts help on part of a task.
On the chosen pace and reliability. Estimate.
Share of the working time within reach, now to 2030
What each choice means: , , , , . Every pace starts from .
At this date and pace, models finish tasks up to 4.4 h long four times in five.
How far this has come
With GPT-4, measured in March 2023, 0% of this job's working time was within reach at . With Claude 3.7 Sonnet, measured in February 2025, 0%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 4%. Today's estimate: 4%.
A backcast: today's task data with the best model METR had measured by each date. It shows how fast the models have moved, not what anyone forecast at the time.
The tasks
Sorted by . 20 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assemble, install, repair, and maintain elevators, escalators, moving sidewalks, and dumbwaiters, using hand and power tools, and testing devices such as test lamps, ammeters, and voltmeters.Done daily by most who do it. | 16% | 1.5 work days3.3 h to 4.2 work days | Stays with people | |
| Assemble electrically powered stairs, steel frameworks, and tracks, and install associated motors and electrical wiring.Done yearly or less by most who do it. | 16% | 2.1 work days6.7 h to 1 work week | Stays with people | |
| Disassemble defective units, and repair or replace parts such as locks, gears, cables, and electric wiring.Done daily by most who do it. | 14% | 4.2 h1.7 h to 6.7 h | Stays with people | |
| Inspect wiring connections, control panel hookups, door installations, and alignments and clearances of cars and hoistways to ensure that equipment will operate properly.Done daily by most who do it. | 10% | 2.5 h50 min to 3.3 h | Stays with people | |
| Adjust safety controls, counterweights, door mechanisms, and components such as valves, ratchets, seals, and brake linings.Done more than weekly by most who do it. | 7% | 2.1 h38 min to 4.2 h | Stays with people | |
| Install electrical wires and controls by attaching conduit along shaft walls from floor to floor and pulling plastic-covered wires through the conduit.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 7% | 1 work day3.3 h to 2.5 work days | Stays with people | |
| Check that safety regulations and building codes are met, and complete service reports verifying conformance to standards.Done more than weekly by most who do it. | 6% | 1.7 h38 min to 2.5 h | Stays with people | |
| Locate malfunctions in brakes, motors, switches, and signal and control systems, using test equipment.Done more than weekly by most who do it. | 6% | 2.1 h50 min to 4.2 h | Stays with people | |
| Assemble elevator cars, installing each car's platform, walls, and doors.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 3% | 1.3 work days3.3 h to 3.1 work days | Stays with people | |
| Connect electrical wiring to control panels and electric motors.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 3% | 2.5 h50 min to 6.7 h | Stays with people | |
| Read and interpret blueprints to determine the layout of system components, frameworks, and foundations, and to select installation equipment.Done daily by most who do it. | 2% | 50 min25 min to 2.5 h | 95%Half by now | |
| Attach guide shoes and rollers to minimize the lateral motion of cars as they travel through shafts.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 2% | 2.5 h50 min to 4.2 h | Stays with people |
Within reach, per task: the share of the task's time whose instances are short enough for a model to finish at the chosen date, pace and reliability. Half by: the date half of that time comes within reach.
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Where this job works
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