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AI Automation Index
Will AI Replace Financial Managers?
Task-level automation exposure for Financial Managers: 17 O*NET tasks scored against their work activities, plus the simulator.
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56%
weighted task index
17 of 17 tasks scored
Median Salary
$166,570 / year
BLS OEWS, May 2025 — this exact occupation
Employment Level
Very High
841,710 people hold this job — size, not growth
Projected 2025–35
+9.7%
employment change
65,600 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.
$80,390 – $219,880
Highest medians
New York $219,880
Massachusetts $206,760
New Jersey $199,110
District of Columbia $188,880
Virginia $185,220
Lowest medians
Guam $80,390
Puerto Rico $90,660
Virgin Islands $94,990
Mississippi $111,390
West Virginia $113,140
State figures come from the 11-3031 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 56%
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 57%
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 16/100
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
17 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) 49%
9 tasks
Medium exposure (≥ 35%) 22%
4 tasks
Low exposure (below 35%) 28%
4 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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#21311 · Core · 28% automatable
Establish and maintain relationships with individual or business customers or provide assistance with problems these customers may encounter.
interpersonal — Interpersonal business relationships are inherently human
Establish interpersonal business relationships to facilitate work activities.
#21319 · Core · 70% automatable
Oversee the flow of cash or financial instruments.
data analysis — Cash flow tracking is digital and analyzable
Monitor flow of cash or other resources.
#21312 · Core · 33% automatable
Plan, direct, or coordinate the activities of workers in branches, offices, or departments of establishments, such as branch banks, brokerage firms, risk and insurance departments, or credit departments.
decision support — Financial operations direction carries fiduciary accountability
Supervise employees. Direct financial operations.
#21313 · Core · 55% automatable
Recruit staff members.
interpersonal — AI drafts outreach; human builds candidate relationships
Recruit personnel.
#21315 · Core · 75% automatable
Evaluate data pertaining to costs to plan budgets.
data analysis — Analyzes records for budgeting; human sets priorities
Analyze financial records to improve budgeting or planning.
#21316 · Core · 35% automatable
Oversee training programs.
interpersonal — Directing organizational operations carries accountability
Direct organizational operations, projects, or services.
#21327 · Supplemental · 50% automatable
Establish procedures for custody or control of assets, records, loan collateral, or securities to ensure safekeeping.
decision support — AI models pricing; human sets monetary policy
Determine pricing or monetary policies.
#21322 · Supplemental · 58% automatable
Communicate with stockholders or other investors to provide information or to raise capital.
interpersonal — Stakeholder communication needs relationship and judgment
Communicate organizational information to customers or other stakeholders.
#21321 · Supplemental · 72% automatable
Develop or analyze information to assess the current or future financial status of firms.
data analysis — Forecast analysis for decisions; human decides
Analyze forecasting data to improve business decisions.
#21318 · Supplemental · 33% automatable
Approve, reject, or coordinate the approval or rejection of lines of credit or commercial, real estate, or personal loans.
decision support — Financial operations direction carries fiduciary accountability
Approve expenditures. Direct financial operations.
#21320 · Supplemental · 75% automatable
Prepare financial or regulatory reports required by laws, regulations, or boards of directors.
data analysis — Reports and budgets drafted; human owns assumptions
Prepare financial documents, reports, or budgets. Prepare reports related to compliance matters. Maintain regulatory or compliance documentation.
#21317 · Supplemental · 75% automatable
Examine, evaluate, or process loan applications.
data analysis — Analyzes records for budgeting; human sets priorities
Analyze financial records to improve budgeting or planning.
#21323 · Supplemental · 67% automatable
Evaluate financial reporting systems, accounting or collection procedures, or investment activities and make recommendations for changes to procedures, operating systems, budgets, or other financial control functions.
data analysis — Efficiency analysis from records; human verifies
Analyze financial records to improve efficiency. Recommend organizational process or policy changes.
#21325 · Supplemental · 28% automatable
Network within communities to find and attract new business.
interpersonal — Interpersonal business relationships are inherently human
Establish interpersonal business relationships to facilitate work activities.
#21314 · Supplemental · 82% automatable
Prepare operational or risk reports for management analysis.
text generation — Status/progress reports from tracked data
Prepare operational progress or status reports.
#21326 · Supplemental · 76% automatable
Review collection reports to determine the status of collections and the amounts of outstanding balances.
data analysis — Interprets financial reports; human owns conclusions
Analyze financial records or reports to determine state of operations.
#21329 · Supplemental · 76% automatable
Review reports of securities transactions or price lists to analyze market conditions.
data analysis — Interprets financial reports; human owns conclusions
Analyze financial records or reports to determine state of operations.
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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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