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Will AI Replace Energy Auditors?
Task-level automation exposure for Energy Auditors: 21 O*NET tasks scored against their work activities, plus the simulator.
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63%
weighted task index
21 of 21 tasks scored
Median Salary
$74,690 / year
BLS OEWS, May 2025 — this exact occupation
Employment Level
High
146,720 people hold this job — size, not growth
Projected 2025–35
0.0%
employment change
14,800 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.
$44,320 – $102,410
Highest medians
Alaska $102,410
California $101,290
Connecticut $98,670
Washington $96,140
Minnesota $88,670
Lowest medians
Puerto Rico $44,320
Mississippi $50,250
Guam $51,710
Arkansas $52,700
South Carolina $58,840
State figures come from the 47-4011 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 63%
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 59%
Share in analysis, decisions, teaching, directing, advising, or caring for others.
Routine administration 5%
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 7/100
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
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) 72%
15 tasks
Medium exposure (≥ 35%) 14%
3 tasks
Low exposure (below 35%) 14%
3 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.
- New 08/2022 · Occupational Expert
Evaluate the energy performance of buildings using modeling software.
Constituent Tasks
#18082 · Core · 72% automatable
Identify and prioritize energy-saving measures.
data analysis — AI analyzes operations to flag efficiency gains
Identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency.
#18074 · Core · 78% automatable
Prepare audit reports containing energy analysis results or recommendations for energy cost savings.
data analysis — Reports and budgets drafted; human owns assumptions
Prepare financial documents, reports, or budgets.
#19561 · Core · 58% automatable
Identify any health or safety issues related to planned weatherization projects.
decision support — Green-tech investment risk; human owns decisions
Analyze risks related to investments in green technology.
#18083 · Core · 72% automatable
Identify opportunities to improve the operation, maintenance, or energy efficiency of building or process systems.
data analysis — AI analyzes operations to flag efficiency gains
Identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency.
#18077 · Core · 80% automatable
Calculate potential for energy savings.
data analysis — Organizational calculations from given data
Calculate data to inform organizational operations. Analyze energy usage data.
#18073 · Core · 22% automatable
Inspect or evaluate building envelopes, mechanical systems, electrical systems, or process systems to determine the energy consumption of each system.
visual inspection — Physical spec verification of facilities/equipment
Inspect facilities or equipment to ensure specifications are met.
#18076 · Core · 75% automatable
Analyze technical feasibility of energy-saving measures, using knowledge of engineering, energy production, energy use, construction, maintenance, system operation, or process systems.
data analysis — Cost-effectiveness modeling from given data
Assess the cost effectiveness of products, projects, or services.
#19560 · Core · 42% automatable
Examine commercial sites to determine the feasibility of installing equipment that allows building management systems to reduce electricity consumption during peak demand periods.
visual inspection — Physical property inspection needs on-site sensory judgment
Evaluate condition of properties.
#18087 · Core · 62% automatable
Recommend energy-efficient technologies or alternate energy sources.
decision support — Drafts advice; accountability and context owned by human
Advise others on business or operational matters.
#18078 · Core · 73% automatable
Collect and analyze field data related to energy usage.
data analysis — Energy usage analysis is standard quantitative work
Research issues related to the environment or sustainable business practices. Analyze energy usage data.
#18071 · Core · 80% automatable
Measure energy usage with devices such as data loggers, universal data recorders, light meters, sling psychrometers, psychrometric charts, flue gas analyzers, amp probes, watt meters, volt meters, thermometers, or utility meters.
data analysis — Energy usage analysis is standard quantitative work
Analyze energy usage data.
#18081 · Core · 72% automatable
Educate customers on energy efficiency or answer questions on topics such as the costs of running household appliances or the selection of energy-efficient appliances.
text generation — Written correspondence to customers is largely automatable
Correspond with customers to answer questions or resolve complaints.
#18072 · Core · 25% automatable
Perform tests such as blower-door tests to locate air leaks.
physical manipulation — Material characteristic testing needs physical instruments
Test characteristics of materials or structures.
#18086 · Core · 60% automatable
Prepare job specification sheets for home energy improvements, such as attic insulation, window retrofits, or heating system upgrades.
decision support — Technical specs drafted; human verifies
Develop technical specifications for systems or equipment.
#19562 · Core · 22% automatable
Inspect newly installed energy-efficient equipment to ensure that it was installed properly and is performing according to specifications.
visual inspection — Physical spec verification of facilities/equipment
Inspect facilities or equipment to ensure specifications are met.
#18075 · Core · 80% automatable
Analyze energy bills, including utility rates or tariffs, to gather historical energy usage data.
data analysis — Energy usage analysis is standard quantitative work
Analyze energy usage data.
#18084 · Core · 80% automatable
Quantify energy consumption to establish baselines for energy use or need.
data analysis — Energy usage analysis is standard quantitative work
Analyze energy usage data.
#18080 · Core · 80% automatable
Determine patterns of building use to show annual or monthly needs for heating, cooling, lighting, or other energy needs.
data analysis — Energy usage analysis is standard quantitative work
Analyze energy usage data.
#18079 · Core · 80% automatable
Compare existing energy consumption levels to normative data.
data analysis — Energy usage analysis is standard quantitative work
Analyze energy usage data.
#18085 · Core · 40% automatable
Oversee installation of equipment such as water heater wraps, pipe insulation, weatherstripping, door sweeps, or low-flow showerheads to improve energy efficiency.
interpersonal — Overseeing business processes requires human accountability
Oversee business processes.
#19563 · Supplemental · 75% automatable
Verify income eligibility of participants in publicly financed weatherization programs.
decision support — Eligibility screening against rules, human decides edge cases
Verify application data to determine program eligibility.
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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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