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Will AI Replace Compensation, Benefits, and Job Analysis Specialists?
Task-level automation exposure for Compensation, Benefits, and Job Analysis Specialists: 22 O*NET tasks scored against their work activities, plus the simulator.
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55%
weighted task index
22 of 22 tasks scored
Median Salary
$78,210 / year
BLS OEWS, May 2025 — this exact occupation
Employment Level
High
112,380 people hold this job — size, not growth
Projected 2025–35
+6.0%
employment change
9,000 openings a year · BLS line item
Pay by state
BLS OEWS publishes 51 state estimates for this occupation. Each is its own survey estimate, not the national median adjusted for local prices.
$42,110 – $99,560
Highest medians
Delaware $99,560
Massachusetts $95,890
Colorado $92,560
California $91,410
District of Columbia $86,710
Lowest medians
Puerto Rico $42,110
West Virginia $48,080
Mississippi $51,670
Utah $52,090
Alabama $57,710
State figures come from the 13-1141 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 55%
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 74%
Share in analysis, decisions, teaching, directing, advising, or caring for others.
Routine administration 10%
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 19/100
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
22 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) 32%
7 tasks
Medium exposure (≥ 35%) 65%
14 tasks
Low exposure (below 35%) 3%
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.
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#3359 · Core · 40% automatable
Administer employee insurance, pension, and savings plans, working with insurance brokers and plan carriers.
interpersonal — Overseeing business processes requires human accountability
Oversee business processes.
#3352 · Core · 65% automatable
Ensure company compliance with federal and state laws, including reporting requirements.
decision support — AI tracks regulatory compliance across documents
Monitor organizational compliance with regulations.
#3363 · Core · 60% automatable
Research employee benefit and health and safety practices, and recommend changes or modifications to existing policies.
decision support — Policy evaluation needs organizational context and judgment
Evaluate effectiveness of personnel policies or practices. Advise others on human resources topics.
#3353 · Core · 55% automatable
Advise managers and employees on state and federal employment regulations, collective agreements, benefit and compensation policies, personnel procedures, and classification programs.
interpersonal — HR advice sensitive; accountability and context human
Advise others on human resources topics.
#3369 · Core · 55% automatable
Plan and develop curricula and materials for training programs and conduct training.
text generation — Procedural training content AI-assisted; delivery human
Train personnel in organizational or compliance procedures.
#3357 · Core · 78% automatable
Assist in preparing and maintaining personnel records and handbooks.
data analysis — Maintain structured personnel records in systems
Maintain personnel records.
#23985 · Supplemental · 57% automatable
Develop and administer compensation programs, such as merit or incentive pay.
data analysis — Rules-based benefits admin; human handles exceptions
Develop organizational policies or programs. Administer compensation or benefits programs.
#3351 · Supplemental · 40% automatable
Evaluate job positions, determining classification, exempt or non-exempt status, and salary.
interpersonal — Job analysis needs observation and interviews in person
Analyze jobs using observation, survey, or interview techniques.
#3356 · Supplemental · 40% automatable
Prepare occupational classifications, job descriptions, and salary scales.
interpersonal — Job analysis needs observation and interviews in person
Analyze jobs using observation, survey, or interview techniques.
#3371 · Supplemental · 55% automatable
Consult with, or serve as, technical liaison between business, industry, government, and union officials.
text generation — Drafting agency communications aided; relationships human
Communicate with government agencies.
#3362 · Supplemental · 80% automatable
Perform multifactor data and cost analyses that may be used in areas such as support of collective bargaining agreements.
data analysis — Analyzes structured financial data with tools
Analyze business or financial data.
#3361 · Supplemental · 55% automatable
Develop, implement, administer, and evaluate personnel and labor relations programs, including performance appraisal, affirmative action, and employment equity programs.
decision support — AI drafts methods; human owns business judgment
Establish business management methods.
#3355 · Supplemental · 55% automatable
Provide advice on the resolution of classification and salary complaints.
interpersonal — HR advice sensitive; accountability and context human
Advise others on human resources topics.
#3360 · Supplemental · 20% automatable
Negotiate collective agreements on behalf of employers or workers, and mediate labor disputes and grievances.
interpersonal — Collective bargaining is high-stakes live negotiation
Arrange collective bargaining agreements.
#3364 · Supplemental · 65% automatable
Analyze organizational, occupational, and industrial data to facilitate organizational functions and provide technical information to business, industry, and government.
decision support — Policy evaluation needs organizational context and judgment
Evaluate effectiveness of personnel policies or practices. Inform individuals or organizations of status or findings.
#3366 · Supplemental · 40% automatable
Assess need for and develop job analysis instruments and materials.
interpersonal — Job analysis needs observation and interviews in person
Analyze jobs using observation, survey, or interview techniques.
#3370 · Supplemental · 41% automatable
Observe, interview, and survey employees and conduct focus group meetings to collect job, organizational, and occupational information.
interpersonal — Organizational surveys need human access and trust
Conduct surveys in organizations. Analyze jobs using observation, survey, or interview techniques.
#3354 · Supplemental · 55% automatable
Plan, develop, evaluate, improve, and communicate methods and techniques for selecting, promoting, compensating, evaluating, and training workers.
decision support — AI drafts methods; human owns business judgment
Establish business management methods.
#3368 · Supplemental · 40% automatable
Research job and worker requirements, structural and functional relationships among jobs and occupations, and occupational trends.
interpersonal — Job analysis needs observation and interviews in person
Analyze jobs using observation, survey, or interview techniques.
#3358 · Supplemental · 80% automatable
Prepare reports, such as organization and flow charts and career path reports, to summarize job analysis and evaluation and compensation analysis information.
text generation — Generate operational reports from structured data
Prepare operational reports.
#3365 · Supplemental · 55% automatable
Advise staff of individuals' qualifications.
interpersonal — HR advice sensitive; accountability and context human
Advise others on human resources topics.
#3372 · Supplemental · 75% automatable
Prepare research results for publication in form of journals, books, manuals, and film.
text generation — Research reports drafted; human owns findings
Prepare research reports.
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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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