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AI Automation Index
Will AI Replace Gambling and Sports Book Writers and Runners?
Task-level automation exposure for Gambling and Sports Book Writers and Runners: 17 O*NET tasks scored against their work activities, plus the simulator.
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34%
weighted task index
17 of 17 tasks scored
Median Salary
$34,980 / year
BLS OEWS, May 2025 — this exact occupation
Employment Level
Low
8,950 people hold this job — size, not growth
Projected 2025–35
+1.8%
employment change
1,400 openings a year · BLS line item
Pay by state
BLS OEWS publishes 30 state estimates for this occupation. Each is its own survey estimate, not the national median adjusted for local prices.
$19,740 – $54,740
Highest medians
New York $54,740
New Jersey $48,260
Massachusetts $47,720
Wisconsin $47,250
California $44,860
Lowest medians
West Virginia $19,740
Montana $22,030
Louisiana $26,620
Mississippi $28,340
Nebraska $29,670
State figures come from the 39-3012 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 34%
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 5%
Share in analysis, decisions, teaching, directing, advising, or caring for others.
Routine administration 40%
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
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) 19%
3 tasks
Medium exposure (≥ 35%) 18%
3 tasks
Low exposure (below 35%) 63%
11 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 07/2014 · Incumbent
Provide race or game information to patrons.
- New 07/2014 · Incumbent
Serve drinks to patrons.
Constituent Tasks
#8009 · Core · 62% automatable
Answer questions about game rules or casino policies.
interpersonal — Routine inquiries answerable; nuanced cases need human
Respond to customer inquiries.
#8008 · Core · 15% automatable
Collect cards or tickets from players.
interpersonal — Running live gaming floor with patrons and stakes
Conduct amusement or gaming activities.
#20596 · Core · 55% automatable
Compute and verify amounts won or lost, paying out winnings or referring patrons to workers, such as gaming cashiers, so that winnings can be collected.
data analysis — Gaming win/loss computation from records
Compute gaming wins and losses. Conduct gaming transactions.
#8014 · Supplemental · 25% automatable
Pay off or move bets as established by game rules and procedures.
physical manipulation — Gaming transactions involve physical chips and live tables
Conduct gaming transactions.
#8012 · Supplemental · 15% automatable
Conduct gambling tables or games, such as dice, roulette, cards, or keno, and ensure that game rules are followed.
interpersonal — Running live gaming floor with patrons and stakes
Conduct amusement or gaming activities.
#8018 · Supplemental · 10% automatable
Start gaming equipment that randomly selects numbered balls and announce winning numbers and colors.
physical manipulation — Hands-on operation of gaming equipment in venue
Operate gaming equipment.
#8011 · Supplemental · 15% automatable
Check to ensure that all players have placed their bets before play begins.
interpersonal — Running live gaming floor with patrons and stakes
Conduct amusement or gaming activities.
#8019 · Supplemental · 80% automatable
Record the number of tickets cashed and the amount paid out after each race or event.
data analysis — Maintain financial records; human reconciles exceptions
Maintain financial or account records.
#8021 · Supplemental · 29% automatable
Supervise staff and games and mediate disputes.
interpersonal — Mediation requires live facilitation and trust
Mediate disputes. Supervise service workers.
#8007 · Supplemental · 53% automatable
Collect bets in the form of cash or chips, verifying and recording amounts.
data analysis — Maintain financial records; human reconciles exceptions
Maintain financial or account records. Conduct gaming transactions.
#8013 · Supplemental · 80% automatable
Prepare collection reports for submission to supervisors.
text generation — Prepare operational reports from data
Prepare operational reports or records.
#8015 · Supplemental · 20% automatable
Inspect cards or equipment to be used in games to ensure they are in proper condition.
visual inspection — Hands-on verification of equipment functioning
Inspect equipment to ensure proper functioning.
#8016 · Supplemental · 25% automatable
Exchange paper currency for playing chips or coins.
physical manipulation — Gaming transactions involve physical chips and live tables
Conduct gaming transactions.
#8025 · Supplemental · 56% automatable
Take the house percentage from each pot.
data analysis — Financial calculations fully automatable
Calculate financial data. Conduct gaming transactions.
#8017 · Supplemental · 15% automatable
Open or close cash floats or game tables.
interpersonal — Running live gaming floor with patrons and stakes
Conduct amusement or gaming activities.
#8020 · Supplemental · 10% automatable
Operate games in which players bet that a ball will come to rest in a particular slot on a rotating wheel, performing actions such as spinning the wheel and releasing the ball.
physical manipulation — Hands-on operation of gaming equipment in venue
Operate gaming equipment.
#8010 · Supplemental · 15% automatable
Compare the house hand with players' hands to determine the winner.
interpersonal — Running live gaming floor with patrons and stakes
Conduct amusement or gaming activities.
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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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