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AI Automation Index
Will AI Replace Education Administrators, Postsecondary?
Task-level automation exposure for Education Administrators, Postsecondary: 27 O*NET tasks scored against their work activities, plus the simulator.
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52%
weighted task index
27 of 27 tasks scored
Median Salary
$104,590 / year
BLS OEWS, May 2025 — this exact occupation
Employment Level
High
180,470 people hold this job — size, not growth
Projected 2025–35
+1.8%
employment change
14,500 openings a year · BLS line item
Pay by state
BLS OEWS publishes 53 state estimates for this occupation. Each is its own survey estimate, not the national median adjusted for local prices.
$78,240 – $139,640
Highest medians
New York $139,640
New Jersey $131,570
Massachusetts $128,970
Delaware $128,570
Wyoming $127,960
Lowest medians
Arkansas $78,240
Guam $79,080
Puerto Rico $80,410
Hawaii $81,020
Florida $83,840
State figures come from the 11-9033 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 52%
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 72%
Share in analysis, decisions, teaching, directing, advising, or caring for others.
Routine administration 16%
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 12/100
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
27 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) 25%
6 tasks
Medium exposure (≥ 35%) 66%
19 tasks
Low exposure (below 35%) 9%
2 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
#21041 · Core · 63% automatable
Design or use assessments to monitor student learning outcomes.
text generation — Item writing from specs, human reviews validity
Administer tests to assess educational needs or progress. Prepare tests.
#5235 · Core · 43% automatable
Recruit, hire, train, and terminate departmental personnel.
interpersonal — AI drafts outreach; human builds candidate relationships
Conduct employee training programs. Hire personnel. Recruit personnel.
#18594 · Core · 43% automatable
Direct, coordinate, and evaluate the activities of personnel, including support staff engaged in administering academic institutions, departments, or alumni organizations.
decision support — Performance review aided; accountability and context human
Evaluate employee performance. Supervise employees.
#18593 · Core · 55% automatable
Advise students on issues such as course selection, progress toward graduation, and career decisions.
interpersonal — Personal development advice needs human relationship
Advise others on career or personal development.
#5236 · Core · 75% automatable
Plan, administer, and control budgets, maintain financial records, and produce financial reports.
data analysis — Reports and budgets drafted; human owns assumptions
Prepare financial documents, reports, or budgets. Prepare operational budgets.
#18595 · Core · 58% automatable
Formulate strategic plans for the institution.
decision support — AI drafts strategies; human owns operational judgment
Develop operating strategies, plans, or procedures.
#5240 · Core · 56% automatable
Establish operational policies and procedures and make any necessary modifications, based on analysis of operations, demographics, and other research information.
decision support — AI drafts strategies; human owns operational judgment
Develop organizational policies or programs. Develop operating strategies, plans, or procedures.
#5239 · Core · 76% automatable
Provide assistance to faculty and staff in duties such as teaching classes, conducting orientation programs, issuing transcripts, and scheduling events.
text generation — Fill forms from provided information
Schedule activities or facility use. Prepare forms or applications.
#5237 · Core · 30% automatable
Represent institutions at community and campus events, in meetings with other institution personnel, and during accreditation processes.
interpersonal — External representation requires human presence and authority
Represent the organization in external relations.
#21042 · Core · 81% automatable
Prepare reports on academic or institutional data.
text generation — Draft student activity/performance reports from records
Prepare operational reports or records. Prepare reports detailing student activities or performance.
#18596 · Core · 30% automatable
Promote the university by participating in community, state, and national events or meetings, and by developing partnerships with industry and secondary education institutions.
interpersonal — External representation requires human presence and authority
Represent the organization in external relations.
#5238 · Core · 35% automatable
Participate in faculty and college committee activities.
interpersonal — Committee service requires presence, negotiation, accountability
Serve on institutional or departmental committees.
#5243 · Supplemental · 35% automatable
Direct activities of administrative departments, such as admissions, registration, and career services.
interpersonal — Directing admin services is supervisory accountability
Direct administrative or support services.
#5242 · Supplemental · 45% automatable
Appoint individuals to faculty positions, and evaluate their performance.
decision support — Performance review aided; accountability and context human
Evaluate employee performance. Manage human resources activities.
#5244 · Supplemental · 59% automatable
Develop curricula, and recommend curricula revisions and additions.
decision support — Drafts policy options; political judgment owned by human
Develop educational goals, standards, policies, or procedures. Recommend organizational process or policy changes.
#5246 · Supplemental · 55% automatable
Consult with government regulatory and licensing agencies to ensure the institution's conformance with applicable standards.
text generation — Drafting agency communications aided; relationships human
Communicate with government agencies.
#5249 · Supplemental · 55% automatable
Participate in student recruitment, selection, and admission, making admissions recommendations when required to do so.
interpersonal — AI drafts outreach; human builds candidate relationships
Recruit personnel.
#5245 · Supplemental · 74% automatable
Determine course schedules, and coordinate teaching assignments and room assignments to ensure optimum use of buildings and equipment.
decision support — Generate schedules from constraints; human resolves conflicts
Schedule activities or facility use. Prepare staff schedules or work assignments.
#5248 · Supplemental · 50% automatable
Teach courses within their department.
interpersonal — Course content AI-assisted; live teaching and assessment human
Teach classes in area of specialization.
#5250 · Supplemental · 61% automatable
Review student misconduct reports requiring disciplinary action, and counsel students regarding such reports.
data analysis — AI grades and tracks metrics; human interprets holistically
Monitor student performance. Advise students on academic or career matters.
#5255 · Supplemental · 59% automatable
Review registration statistics, and consult with faculty officials to develop registration policies.
data analysis — Operational data analysis; manager owns decisions
Analyze data to inform operational decisions or activities. Confer with organizational members to accomplish work activities.
#5241 · Supplemental · 45% automatable
Confer with other academic staff to explain and formulate admission requirements and course credit policies.
interpersonal — Coordinating work through live human interaction
Confer with organizational members to accomplish work activities.
#5253 · Supplemental · 35% automatable
Direct scholarship, fellowship, and loan programs, performing activities such as selecting recipients and distributing aid.
interpersonal — Directing admin services is supervisory accountability
Direct administrative or support services.
#5259 · Supplemental · 50% automatable
Direct and participate in institutional fundraising activities, and encourage alumni participation in such activities.
text generation — Outreach content and scheduling largely automatable
Manage outreach activities.
#5254 · Supplemental · 45% automatable
Coordinate the production and dissemination of university publications, such as course catalogs and class schedules.
decision support — AI plans projects; human owns execution and stakeholders
Manage operations, research, or logistics projects.
#18597 · Supplemental · 50% automatable
Write grants to procure external funding, and supervise grant-funded projects.
text generation — Draft applications; human owns funding strategy
Prepare proposals or grant applications to obtain project funding. Manage operations, research, or logistics projects.
#5258 · Supplemental · 40% automatable
Plan and promote sporting events and social, cultural, and recreational activities.
decision support — Event planning aided; execution and accountability human
Coordinate special events or programs.
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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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