Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers
Move or install mobile homes or prefabricated buildings.
3,020 people do this job in the US. $45,990 a year.
of the working time. Estimate.
- 4%
- 1%
- 94%
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 . 14 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Move and set up mobile homes or prefabricated buildings on owners' lots or at mobile home parks.Done daily by most who do it. | 71% | 2.1 work days6.7 h to 4.2 work days | Stays with people | |
| Inspect, examine, and test the operation of parts or systems to evaluate operating condition and to determine if repairs are needed.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 7% | 1.3 h25 min to 2.5 h | Stays with people | |
| List parts needed, estimate costs, and plan work procedures, using parts lists, technical manuals, and diagrams.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 4% | 50 min25 min to 2.1 h | 98%Half by now | |
| Seal open sides of modular units to prepare them for shipment, using polyethylene sheets, nails, and hammers.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 3% | 1.3 h25 min to 2.5 h | Stays with people | |
| Remove damaged exterior panels, repair and replace structural frame members, and seal leaks, using hand tools.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 3% | 4.2 h1.7 h to 1 work day | Stays with people | |
| Refinish wood surfaces on cabinets, doors, moldings, and floors, using power sanders, putty, spray equipment, brushes, paints, or varnishes.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 2% | 3.3 h1.7 h to 1 work day | Stays with people | |
| Connect water hoses to inlet pipes of plumbing systems, and test operation of plumbing fixtures.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 2% | 50 min25 min to 1.7 h | Stays with people | |
| Repair leaks in plumbing or gas lines, using caulking compounds and plastic or copper pipe.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 2% | 1.7 h38 min to 3.3 h | Stays with people | |
| Install, repair, and replace units, fixtures, appliances, and other items and systems in mobile and modular homes, prefabricated buildings, or travel trailers, using hand tools or power tools.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 2% | 2.5 h50 min to 5 h | Stays with people | |
| Open and close doors, windows, and drawers to test their operation, trimming edges to fit, using jackplanes or drawknives.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 2% | 50 min25 min to 2.1 h | Stays with people | |
| Confer with customers or read work orders to determine the nature and extent of damage to units.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 1% | 25 min13 min to 50 min | Stays with people | |
| Locate and repair frayed wiring, broken connections, or incorrect wiring, using ohmmeters, soldering irons, tape, and hand tools.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 0.5% | 1.7 h38 min to 3.3 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.
Jobs that share skills with this one
From O*NET's related occupations. Within reach now and by the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Aircraft Structure, Surfaces, Rigging, and Systems Assemblers4% now, 4% by 2028
- Carpenters16% now, 17% by 2028
- Millwrights0% now, 0% by 2028
- Structural Iron and Steel Workers5% now, 5% by 2028
- Helpers--Pipelayers, Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters0% now, 0% by 2028
- Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters16% now, 24% by 2028
Where this job works
The industry groups that employ the most of it (BLS, May 2025).
Where the most of these jobs are
The metro areas with the most people in it (BLS, May 2025).