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Will AI Replace Government Property Inspectors and Investigators?
Task-level automation exposure for Government Property Inspectors and Investigators: 13 O*NET tasks scored against their work activities, plus the simulator.
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52%
weighted task index
13 of 13 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 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 38%
Share in analysis, decisions, teaching, directing, advising, or caring for others.
Routine administration 0%
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 1/100
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
13 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) 40%
4 tasks
Medium exposure (≥ 35%) 31%
5 tasks
Low exposure (below 35%) 29%
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.
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 05/2025 · AI/SME
Use emerging technologies, such as drones, for remote or automated inspections.
Constituent Tasks
#12890 · Core · 65% automatable
Prepare correspondence, reports of inspections or investigations, or recommendations for action.
text generation — Status notifications drafted and sent by AI
Inform individuals or organizations of status or findings.
#12891 · Core · 83% automatable
Examine records, reports, or other documents to establish facts or detect discrepancies.
data analysis — Financial accuracy checks, human reviews exceptions
Verify accuracy of financial information.
#20843 · Core · 22% automatable
Inspect government property, such as construction sites or public housing, to ensure compliance with contract specifications or legal requirements.
visual inspection — Physical spec verification of facilities/equipment
Inspect facilities or equipment to ensure specifications are met.
#20844 · Supplemental · 59% automatable
Investigate alleged license or permit violations.
decision support — Screens applications against criteria; human owns approval
Investigate legal issues. Review license or permit applications.
#12894 · Supplemental · 78% automatable
Inspect manufactured or processed products to ensure compliance with contract specifications or legal requirements.
information retrieval — Product compliance check against regulations, human verifies
Examine product information to ensure compliance with regulations.
#12893 · Supplemental · 30% automatable
Collect, identify, evaluate, or preserve case evidence.
physical manipulation — Evidence collection is fieldwork with chain of custody
Collect evidence for legal proceedings.
#12900 · Supplemental · 55% automatable
Submit samples of products to government laboratories for testing, as required.
text generation — Drafting agency communications aided; relationships human
Communicate with government agencies.
#12898 · Supplemental · 22% automatable
Inspect government-owned equipment or materials in the possession of private contractors to ensure compliance with contracts or regulations or to prevent misuse.
visual inspection — Physical spec verification of facilities/equipment
Inspect facilities or equipment to ensure specifications are met.
#20845 · Supplemental · 55% automatable
Investigate applications for special licenses or permits.
information retrieval — Legal research strong, judgment and accountability human
Investigate legal issues.
#12899 · Supplemental · 55% automatable
Recommend legal or administrative action to protect government property.
decision support — Compliance guidance drafted; human verifies and owns
Advise others on legal or regulatory compliance matters.
#12896 · Supplemental · 15% automatable
Testify in court or at administrative proceedings concerning investigation findings.
interpersonal — Testimony carries legal accountability and live presence
Testify at legal or legislative proceedings.
#12895 · Supplemental · 35% automatable
Coordinate with or assist law enforcement agencies in matters of mutual concern.
interpersonal — Enforcement coordination requires legal authority and presence
Coordinate enforcement of laws or regulations.
#12892 · Supplemental · 65% automatable
Monitor investigations of suspected offenders to ensure that they are conducted in accordance with constitutional requirements.
decision support — AI tracks regulatory compliance across documents
Monitor organizational compliance with regulations.
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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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