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AI Automation Index
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Task-level automation exposure for Coroners: 20 O*NET tasks scored against their work activities, plus the simulator.
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48%
weighted task index
20 of 20 tasks scored
Median Salary
$80,730 / year
BLS OEWS, May 2025 — this exact occupation
Employment Level
Very High
417,070 people hold this job — size, not growth
Projected 2025–35
+3.8%
employment change
32,700 openings a year · BLS line item
Pay by state
BLS OEWS publishes 54 state estimates for this occupation. Each is its own survey estimate, not the national median adjusted for local prices.
$48,950 – $111,030
Highest medians
District of Columbia $111,030
Massachusetts $102,060
New Jersey $100,000
California $96,980
Connecticut $91,810
Lowest medians
Puerto Rico $48,950
Oklahoma $63,000
Tennessee $63,960
West Virginia $64,270
Arkansas $64,680
State figures come from the 13-1041 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 48%
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 20%
Share in analysis, decisions, teaching, directing, advising, or caring for others.
Routine administration 45%
Share in documenting, recording, and administrative activities.
Rewritten by O*NET 11%
Share of weighted tasks O*NET rewrote in a recent update. Reported, not folded into the score.
Consequence of error 30/100
Moderate
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
20 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) 39%
8 tasks
Medium exposure (≥ 35%) 31%
6 tasks
Low exposure (below 35%) 30%
6 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 →Emerging & rewritten tasks
Tasks O*NET added or rewrote for this occupation in its recent updates (05/2025 – 08/2026), with who proposed them. Additions are not in the scored task inventory — they are new work O*NET is still measuring, so they appear here and nowhere in the index. A Revision replaces a task that is scored, which is why only those move the "Rewritten by O*NET" share.
- Revision 08/2024 · Occupational Expert
Complete or review death certificates, including the assignment of cause and manner of death.
Replaced: Complete death certificates, including the assignment of cause and manner of death.
- Revision 08/2024 · Occupational Expert
Observe and record the positions and conditions of bodies and related evidence at the scene, through documentation or photographs.
Replaced: Observe and record the positions and conditions of bodies and related evidence.
Constituent Tasks
#8915 · Core · 60% automatable
Revision
Complete death certificates, including the assignment of cause and manner of death.
text generation — Draft legal docs; attorney owns accuracy
Prepare legal or investigatory documentation.
#8912 · Core · 30% automatable
Perform medicolegal examinations and autopsies, conducting preliminary examinations of the body to identify victims, locate signs of trauma, and identify factors that would indicate time of death.
physical manipulation — Evidence collection is fieldwork with chain of custody
Collect evidence for legal proceedings.
#8921 · Core · 20% automatable
Interview persons present at death scenes to obtain information useful in determining the manner of death.
interpersonal — Witness/suspect interviews need human presence
Interview witnesses, suspects, or claimants.
#8916 · Core · 45% automatable
Revision
Observe and record the positions and conditions of bodies and related evidence.
text generation — Draft legal docs; attorney owns accuracy
Collect evidence for legal proceedings. Prepare legal or investigatory documentation.
#8923 · Core · 65% automatable
Provide information concerning the circumstances of death to relatives of the deceased.
text generation — Status notifications drafted and sent by AI
Inform individuals or organizations of status or findings.
#8920 · Core · 45% automatable
Remove or supervise removal of bodies from death scenes, using the proper equipment and supplies, and arrange for transportation to morgues.
decision support — Logistics coordination needs real-time human decisions
Coordinate logistics or other business operations.
#8913 · Core · 30% automatable
Inquire into the cause, manner, and circumstances of human deaths and establish the identities of deceased persons.
physical manipulation — Evidence collection is fieldwork with chain of custody
Collect evidence for legal proceedings.
#8918 · Core · 45% automatable
Observe, record, and preserve any objects or personal property related to deaths, including objects such as medication containers and suicide notes.
text generation — Draft legal docs; attorney owns accuracy
Collect evidence for legal proceedings. Prepare legal or investigatory documentation.
#8919 · Core · 60% automatable
Complete reports and forms required to finalize cases.
text generation — Draft legal docs; attorney owns accuracy
Prepare legal or investigatory documentation.
#8928 · Core · 65% automatable
Arrange for the next of kin to be notified of deaths.
text generation — Status notifications drafted and sent by AI
Inform individuals or organizations of status or findings.
#8924 · Core · 72% automatable
Locate and document information regarding the next of kin, including their relationship to the deceased and the status of notification attempts.
text generation — Legal documentation drafted; human owns accuracy
Document information related to legal proceedings.
#8917 · Core · 45% automatable
Collect and document any pertinent medical history information.
text generation — Draft legal docs; attorney owns accuracy
Collect evidence for legal proceedings. Prepare legal or investigatory documentation.
#8926 · Core · 72% automatable
Inventory personal effects recovered from bodies, such as jewelry or wallets.
text generation — Legal documentation drafted; human owns accuracy
Document information related to legal proceedings.
#20181 · Core · 30% automatable
Direct activities of workers conducting autopsies, performing pathological and toxicological analyses, and preparing documents for permanent records.
interpersonal — Employee supervision is accountability-bearing human work
Supervise employees.
#8927 · Core · 45% automatable
Coordinate the release of personal effects to authorized persons and facilitate the disposition of unclaimed corpses and personal effects.
interpersonal — Operational coordination requires live human orchestration
Coordinate operational activities.
#8931 · Core · 72% automatable
Witness and certify deaths that are the result of a judicial order.
text generation — Legal documentation drafted; human owns accuracy
Document information related to legal proceedings.
#8922 · Core · 15% automatable
Testify at inquests, hearings, and court trials.
interpersonal — Testimony carries legal accountability and live presence
Testify at legal or legislative proceedings.
#8925 · Core · 35% automatable
Confer with officials of public health and law enforcement agencies to coordinate interdepartmental activities.
interpersonal — Enforcement coordination requires legal authority and presence
Coordinate enforcement of laws or regulations.
#8930 · Core · 30% automatable
Collect wills, burial instructions, and other documentation needed for investigations and for handling of the remains.
physical manipulation — Evidence collection is fieldwork with chain of custody
Collect evidence for legal proceedings.
#8929 · Supplemental · 72% automatable
Record the disposition of minor children, as well as details of arrangements made for their care.
text generation — Legal documentation drafted; human owns accuracy
Document information related to legal proceedings.
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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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