Will AI replace Pressers, Textile, Garment, and Related Materials?
AI reaches little of this job’s work.
2/100
Low exposure
More exposed to AI than 5% of US workers.
- AI already used in
- 0% of the work
- As AI tools mature: up to
- 4% of the work
What the job involves
Press or shape articles by hand or machine.
Where AI reaches the work
The job’s main tasks, heaviest first, by how far AI reaches them.
Within reach(1)
- Select appropriate pressing machines, based on garment properties such as heat tolerance.
Out of reach(27)
- Operate steam, hydraulic, or other pressing machines to remove wrinkles from garments and flatwork items, or to shape, form, or patch articles.
- Remove finished pieces from pressing machines and hang or stack them for cooling, or forward them for additional processing.
- Straighten, smooth, or shape materials to prepare them for pressing.
- Lower irons, rams, or pressing heads of machines into position over material to be pressed.
- Push and pull irons over surfaces of articles to smooth or shape them.
and 22 more
Also called
Shirt Presser · Garment Presser · Presser · Pants Presser · Silk Presser · Brim Presser · Clothing Presser · Form Presser
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What these numbers mean
The score is the share of this job’s work, weighted by how important and frequent each task is, that AI could do in half the time: tasks an AI model could do alone count in full, tasks that need software built on AI count half.
“AI already used” is the share of the work in tasks where people are recorded using AI today. “As AI tools mature” counts every task AI could halve, with or without extra software.
The percentile compares the score with every job’s, weighted by how many people in the US do each one. Exposure means AI could change how the work is done, not that the job goes away. These are estimates for the typical job, not predictions.
Sources
- O*NET 31.0 Database, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration
- GPTs are GPTs: Labor market impact potential of LLMs (task labels), Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin & Rock (2023), OpenAI and University of Pennsylvania
- Anthropic Economic Index: labor market impacts (task penetration), Anthropic
- Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (national and metropolitan areas), U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics