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AI Automation Index
Will AI Replace Animal Breeders?
Task-level automation exposure for Animal Breeders: 21 O*NET tasks scored against their work activities, plus the simulator.
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23%
weighted task index
21 of 21 tasks scored
Median Salary
$51,130 / year
BLS OEWS, May 2025 — this exact occupation
Employment Level
Low
1,330 people hold this job — size, not growth
Projected 2025–35
+3.0%
employment change
1,000 openings a year · BLS line item
Pay by state
BLS OEWS publishes 9 state estimates for this occupation. Each is its own survey estimate, not the national median adjusted for local prices.
$40,220 – $68,980
Highest medians
Ohio $68,980
California $59,280
Alabama $53,200
Wisconsin $51,130
Texas $48,410
Lowest medians
Nebraska $40,220
South Dakota $44,850
Minnesota $47,900
New York $48,350
Texas $48,410
State figures come from the 45-2021 row in the May 2025 state panel. States where the estimate was suppressed or too small to publish are absent.
What the score is made of
Each task is mapped to its work activities, scored for AI automation potential, and weighted by how important those activities are to the job. These are the components.
Automation potential 23%
Importance-weighted mean of the scored tasks. This is the headline index.
Physical work 21%
Share of weighted tasks in hands-on or machine-operating work activities.
Judgment & influence 52%
Share in analysis, decisions, teaching, directing, advising, or caring for others.
Routine administration 13%
Share in documenting, recording, and administrative activities.
Rewritten by O*NET 0%
Share of weighted tasks O*NET rewrote in a recent update. Reported, not folded into the score.
Consequence of error 58/100
High
O*NET's own rating of how serious an uncorrectable mistake would be here — respondents, not us. Deliberately not in the index: the score measures what AI can do with the task content, and multiplying it by stakes would be our judgment dressed as data.
Constituent Task Mix
21 tasks for this occupation, weighted by work-activity importance. Shares below are of total task weight, not task count.
High exposure (≥ 60% of the task is automatable) 16%
3 tasks
Medium exposure (≥ 35%) 6%
2 tasks
Low exposure (below 35%) 78%
16 tasks
How would you survive?
Move your week away from the high-exposure tasks and toward the ones that need judgment. The simulator recalculates the index as you shift the mix.
Simulate Upskilling →Constituent Tasks
#8232 · Core · 8% automatable
Feed and water animals, and clean and disinfect pens, cages, yards, and hutches.
physical manipulation — Equipment and facility cleaning is hands-on
Clean equipment or facilities. Care for animals.
#8237 · Core · 14% automatable
Observe animals in heat to detect approach of estrus and exercise animals to induce or hasten estrus, if necessary.
visual inspection — Animal behavior observation is physical and situated
Monitor animal behavior or condition. Perform animal breeding procedures.
#8236 · Core · 30% automatable
Treat minor injuries and ailments and contact veterinarians to obtain treatment for animals with serious illnesses or injuries.
interpersonal — Coordination needs live negotiation and context
Communicate with other workers to coordinate activities. Treat animal injuries or illnesses.
#21080 · Core · 65% automatable
Purchase and stock supplies of feed and medicines.
decision support — Medical supply ordering via systems; human approves
Purchase products or services. Order medical supplies or equipment.
#8235 · Core · 3% automatable
Select animals to be bred, and semen specimens to be used, according to knowledge of animals, genealogies, traits, and desired offspring characteristics.
physical manipulation — Animal breeding is skilled physical procedure
Perform animal breeding procedures.
#8233 · Core · 12% automatable
Examine animals to detect symptoms of illness or injury.
visual inspection — Animal examination needs hands-on veterinary presence
Examine animals to detect illness, injury or other problems.
#8240 · Core · 7% automatable
Build hutches, pens, and fenced yards.
physical manipulation — Agricultural building is hands-on outdoor construction
Build agricultural structures.
#8238 · Core · 80% automatable
Record animal characteristics such as weights, growth patterns, and diets.
data analysis — Maintain operational records in structured systems
Maintain operational records.
#8251 · Core · 10% automatable
Brand, tattoo, or tag animals to allow animal identification.
physical manipulation — Marking forestry products is manual field work
Mark agricultural or forestry products for identification.
#8246 · Supplemental · 30% automatable
Arrange for sale of animals and eggs to hospitals, research centers, pet shops, and food processing plants.
interpersonal — Relationship-driven sales of physical agricultural products
Sell agricultural products.
#8234 · Supplemental · 12% automatable
Place vaccines in drinking water, inject vaccines, or dust air with vaccine powder to protect animals from diseases.
physical manipulation — Physical preparation of materials for organisms
Prepare materials or solutions for animal or plant use.
#21081 · Supplemental · 5% automatable
Bathe and groom animals.
physical manipulation — Animal care requires hands-on handling of unpredictable animals
Care for animals. Provide care for animals.
#21082 · Supplemental · 15% automatable
Exercise animals to keep them in healthy condition.
visual inspection — Animal behavior observation is physical and situated
Monitor animal behavior or condition. Provide care for animals.
#8249 · Supplemental · 20% automatable
Adjust controls to maintain specific building temperatures required for animals' health and safety.
physical manipulation — Physical HVAC control adjustment; some BMS automation
Adjust building climate control systems.
#8245 · Supplemental · 80% automatable
Maintain logs of semen specimens used and animals bred.
data analysis — Maintain operational records in structured systems
Maintain operational records.
#8248 · Supplemental · 3% automatable
Inject prepared animal semen into female animals for breeding purposes, by inserting nozzle of syringe into vagina and depressing syringe plunger.
physical manipulation — Animal breeding is skilled physical procedure
Perform animal breeding procedures.
#8241 · Supplemental · 5% automatable
Clip or shear hair on animals.
physical manipulation — Animal care requires hands-on handling of unpredictable animals
Care for animals.
#8243 · Supplemental · 37% automatable
Package and label semen to be used for artificial insemination, recording information such as the date, source, quality, and concentration.
data analysis — Record inventory data; field collection is human
Record agricultural or forestry inventory data. Perform animal breeding procedures.
#8239 · Supplemental · 45% automatable
Exhibit animals at shows.
text generation — Promotional content drafted; human engages community
Promote agricultural or hunting activities.
#8247 · Supplemental · 3% automatable
Measure specified amounts of semen into calibrated syringes, and insert syringes into inseminating guns.
physical manipulation — Animal breeding is skilled physical procedure
Perform animal breeding procedures.
#8250 · Supplemental · 3% automatable
Examine semen microscopically to assess and record density and motility of gametes, and dilute semen with prescribed diluents, according to formulas.
physical manipulation — Animal breeding is skilled physical procedure
Perform animal breeding procedures.
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How this was scored
- 1. Tasks. O*NET task statements for this occupation, from a release whose newest record is dated 08/2026.
- 2. Work activities. Each task maps to 1–5 Detailed Work Activities; each activity belongs to one of 41 Generalized Work Activities that O*NET rates for importance (1–5) in this occupation.
- 3. Automation potential. Every work activity carries one score for how far current AI can perform it end-to-end. Tasks inherit the mean of their activities.
- 4. Weighting. Task weight = 0.35 + 0.65 × (importance − 1)/4, scaled by how often the task is performed and by 0.7 for Supplemental tasks. Importance is the task's own O*NET rating where it exists (18,369 of 18,838 tasks); the rest inherit their work activities' importance. The index is the weighted mean.
Check: across the 910 occupations where O*NET also rates how far machine speed sets the pace, this index moves opposite to it (Spearman ρ = -0.49). The more a job is paced by equipment, the less of its task content AI can address — the relationship you would expect if the scoring is working.
Sources · O*NET 31.0 (task records to 08/2026) · BLS OEWS May 2025 · BLS projections 2025-2035 · rubric v2.1 · tasks for O*NET, not a forecast
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