Camera and photographic equipment repairers

Repair and adjust cameras and photographic equipment, including commercial video and motion picture camera equipment.

AI Resistance Index 13 of 99

Among the careers AI is changing fastest: more resilient than 13% of the 831 careers we score. AI exposure is moderate (the Bureau of Labor Statistics rates it moderate), and US jobs are projected to change by -15.5% by 2035, expected to shrink. The work leans on physical dexterity.

AI struggles with much of this work. Hiring is expected to grow slower than average, or to shrink.

Median pay (2025): $52,720
Job growth to 2035: -15.5%
Openings a year: 100
People doing it (2025): 1,800
Usual route in: High school diploma, then long on-the-job training

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Where people already use AI for this work

Adjust equipment to ensure adequate performance
Test performance of equipment or systems
Purchase goods or services

From Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025).

Work AI rarely helps with

Disassemble equipment
Clean tools, equipment, facilities, or work areas
Maintain tools or equipment

What the work looks like

Adjust cameras, photographic mechanisms, or equipment such as range and view finders, shutters, light meters, or lens systems, using hand tools.
Disassemble equipment to gain access to defect, using hand tools.
Test equipment performance, focus of lens system, diaphragm alignment, lens mounts, or film transport, using precision gauges.
Clean and lubricate cameras and polish camera lenses, using cleaning materials and work aids.
Install electrical assemblies and wiring in aircraft camera housings and memory cards or film in cameras, following blueprints and using hand tools and soldering equipment.

From O*NET 31.0, US Department of Labor.

What the Bureau of Labor Statistics expects

Fewer of these jobs, as fewer standalone cameras enter the market and as camera replacement becomes more cost-effective than camera repair.

Careers using similar strengths, with a stronger outlook

Watch and clock repairersHuman edge, steady, Index 45, -0.3%
Tile and stone settersHuman edge, growing, Index 92, +9.8%
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Molders, shapers, and casters, except metal and plasticHuman edge, growing, Index 96, +5.8%

Also known as: Camera Repair Technician, Camera Repairman, Camera Technician, Repair Technician, Photo Equipment Technician, Photo Technologist, Photographic Equipment Repair Technician, Photographic Equipment Technician.

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Sources: US Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections 2025 to 2035; O*NET 31.0; Microsoft Research (2025); Anthropic Economic Index (2026); Eloundou and colleagues (Science, 2024); Felten, Raj and Seamans (2023). How we score. Updated 12 October 2026.