As of June 2026, First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers has an AI-exposure score of 52/100 (Elevated exposure) on the AI-Safe Careers index, blending O*NET tasks, the Anthropic Economic Index, the Penn/OpenAI study, and BLS data. This is an estimate of task exposure, not a prediction of job loss.
First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers
More exposed than 38% of the roles we track. Median pay ~US$93,530. About 6,500 projected openings a year (BLS 2024–34 — growth plus replacement).
Pay & demand figures are US medians (BLS, in USD) — your local figures will differ. Your exposure score applies broadly.
How you compare to similar Protective Service roles
Your tasks, by AI exposure
- Maintain required maps and records.
- Perform administrative duties, such as compiling and maintaining records, completing forms, preparing reports, or composing correspondence.
- Communicate fire details to superiors, subordinates, or interagency dispatch centers, using two-way radios.
- Schedule employee work assignments and set work priorities.
- Drive crew carriers to transport firefighters to fire sites.
- Evaluate the performance of assigned firefighting personnel.
- Instruct and drill fire department personnel in assigned duties, including firefighting, medical care, hazardous materials response, fire prevention, and related subjects.
- Evaluate fire station procedures to ensure efficiency and enforcement of departmental regulations.
- Maintain fire suppression equipment in good condition, checking equipment periodically to ensure that it is ready for use.
- Monitor fire suppression expenditures to ensure that they are necessary and reasonable.
- Recommend personnel actions related to disciplinary procedures, performance, leaves of absence, and grievances.
- Direct firefighters in station maintenance duties, and participate in these duties.
- Perform maintenance and minor repairs on firefighting equipment, including vehicles, and write and submit proposals to modify, replace, and repair equipment.
- Assess nature and extent of fire, condition of building, danger to adjacent buildings, and water supply status to determine crew or company requirements.
- Participate in creating fire safety guidelines and evacuation schemes for nonresidential buildings.
- Provide emergency medical services as required, and perform light to heavy rescue functions at emergencies.
- Direct the training of firefighters, assigning of instructors to training classes, and providing of supervisors with reports on training progress and status.
- Inspect stations, uniforms, equipment, or recreation areas to ensure compliance with safety standards, taking corrective action as necessary.
- Assign firefighters to jobs at strategic locations to facilitate rescue of persons and maximize application of extinguishing agents.
- Serve as a working leader of an engine, hand, helicopter, or prescribed fire crew of three or more firefighters.
No durable tasks identified for this role — its real, individually-assessed tasks consistently read as augmentable (80%).
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