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Will AI Replace Chief Sustainability Officers?
Task-level automation exposure for Chief Sustainability Officers: 18 O*NET tasks scored against their work activities, plus the simulator.
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57%
weighted task index
18 of 18 tasks scored
Median Salary
$213,990 / year
BLS OEWS, May 2025 — this exact occupation
Employment Level
High
204,350 people hold this job — size, not growth
Projected 2025–35
+3.2%
employment change
19,100 openings a year · BLS line item
Pay by state
BLS OEWS publishes 48 state estimates for this occupation. Each is its own survey estimate, not the national median adjusted for local prices.
$97,510 – $341,630
Highest medians
Oregon $341,630
Washington $339,810
Illinois $331,920
North Carolina $314,290
Virginia $310,740
Lowest medians
Puerto Rico $97,510
Virgin Islands $104,010
Arkansas $119,990
New Mexico $123,500
Maine $138,770
State figures come from the 11-1011 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 57%
Importance-weighted mean of the scored tasks. This is the headline index.
Physical work 0%
Share of weighted tasks in hands-on or machine-operating work activities.
Judgment & influence 75%
Share in analysis, decisions, teaching, directing, advising, or caring for others.
Routine administration 21%
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 0/100
Low
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
18 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) 47%
9 tasks
Medium exposure (≥ 35%) 45%
8 tasks
Low exposure (below 35%) 8%
1 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
#15382 · Core · 70% automatable
Monitor and evaluate effectiveness of sustainability programs.
data analysis — Program metrics analysis, human owns conclusions
Evaluate program effectiveness.
#15384 · Core · 47% automatable
Develop or execute strategies to address issues such as energy use, resource conservation, recycling, pollution reduction, waste elimination, transportation, education, and building design.
text generation — Policy drafting aided; governance decisions human
Implement organizational process or policy changes. Develop sustainable organizational policies or practices.
#15379 · Core · 46% automatable
Develop, or oversee the development of, sustainability evaluation or monitoring systems.
text generation — Policy drafting aided; governance decisions human
Develop sustainable organizational policies or practices. Manage control system activities in organizations.
#15372 · Core · 28% automatable
Supervise employees or volunteers working on sustainability projects.
interpersonal — Directing workers in the field is human supervision
Supervise workers performing environmentally sustainable activities.
#15378 · Core · 71% automatable
Develop sustainability reports, presentations, or proposals for supplier, employee, academia, media, government, public interest, or other groups.
text generation — Status/progress reports from tracked data
Prepare operational progress or status reports. Present sustainable products or services information to the public.
#15380 · Core · 54% automatable
Develop, or oversee the development of, marketing or outreach media for sustainability projects or events.
text generation — Marketing plans drafted; human tailors and approves
Develop marketing plans or strategies for environmental initiatives. Manage outreach activities.
#15368 · Core · 71% automatable
Identify and evaluate pilot projects or programs to enhance the sustainability research agenda.
decision support — AI surfaces green initiative ideas; human validates
Identify opportunities for green initiatives. Evaluate program effectiveness.
#15370 · Core · 72% automatable
Create and maintain sustainability program documents, such as schedules and budgets.
data analysis — AI arranges schedules; human manages real-world changes
Schedule activities or facility use. Maintain operational records for green energy processes or other environmentally-sustainable activities.
#15375 · Core · 58% automatable
Formulate or implement sustainability campaign or marketing strategies.
text generation — Marketing plans drafted; human tailors and approves
Develop marketing plans or strategies for environmental initiatives.
#15376 · Core · 55% automatable
Research environmental sustainability issues, concerns, or stakeholder interests.
decision support — Concern identification aided; site judgment human
Identify environmental concerns.
#15383 · Core · 35% automatable
Direct sustainability program operations to ensure compliance with environmental or governmental regulations.
interpersonal — Directing organizational operations carries accountability
Direct organizational operations, projects, or services.
#15377 · Core · 65% automatable
Evaluate and approve proposals for sustainability projects, considering factors such as cost effectiveness, technical feasibility, and integration with other initiatives.
data analysis — Feasibility analysis from data, human validates assumptions
Analyze data to determine project feasibility. Evaluate environmental or sustainability projects.
#15381 · Core · 65% automatable
Develop methodologies to assess the viability or success of sustainability initiatives.
text generation — AI drafts evaluation procedures; human adapts to org
Develop procedures to evaluate organizational activities.
#15374 · Core · 60% automatable
Review sustainability program objectives, progress, or status to ensure compliance with policies, standards, regulations, or laws.
decision support — Checks program against standards; human verifies compliance
Evaluate green operations or programs for compliance with standards or regulations.
#15373 · Core · 78% automatable
Write and distribute financial or environmental impact reports.
data analysis — Reports and budgets drafted; human owns assumptions
Prepare financial documents, reports, or budgets.
#15371 · Core · 55% automatable
Write project proposals, grant applications, or other documents to pursue funding for environmental initiatives.
text generation — Draft applications; human owns funding strategy
Prepare proposals or grant applications to obtain project funding.
#15367 · Core · 53% automatable
Identify educational, training, or other development opportunities for sustainability employees or volunteers.
decision support — Capability assessment aided by records, human decides
Evaluate capabilities or training needs. Support the professional development of others.
#15369 · Core · 60% automatable
Conduct risk assessments related to sustainability and the environment.
data analysis — Evaluates sustainability projects; human owns criteria
Analyze risks related to investments in green technology. Evaluate environmental or sustainability projects.
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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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