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AI Automation Index
Will AI Replace Home Health Aides?
Task-level automation exposure for Home Health Aides: 15 O*NET tasks scored against their work activities, plus the simulator.
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16%
weighted task index
15 of 15 tasks scored
Median Salary
$35,800 / year
BLS OEWS, May 2025 — this exact occupation
Employment Level
Very High
4,305,810 people hold this job — size, not growth
Projected 2025–35
+18.1%
employment change
760,500 openings a year · BLS roll-up 31-1120
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.
$21,840 – $47,730
Highest medians
Washington $47,730
Oregon $44,410
Rhode Island $43,680
District of Columbia $42,700
Vermont $41,600
Lowest medians
Puerto Rico $21,840
Louisiana $22,520
Mississippi $23,860
Texas $24,230
Guam $26,500
OEWS has no state row for this exact code, so figures come from the 31-1120 roll-up. 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 16%
Importance-weighted mean of the scored tasks. This is the headline index.
Physical work 11%
Share of weighted tasks in hands-on or machine-operating work activities.
Judgment & influence 81%
Share in analysis, decisions, teaching, directing, advising, or caring for others.
Routine administration 8%
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 27/100
Moderate
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
15 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) 8%
1 tasks
Medium exposure (≥ 35%) 0%
0 tasks
Low exposure (below 35%) 92%
14 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
Assist patients with toileting and incontinent care.
- New 07/2014 · Incumbent
Feed patients.
Constituent Tasks
#4245 · Core · 5% automatable
Plan, purchase, prepare, or serve meals to patients or other family members, according to prescribed diets.
physical manipulation — Physically feeding a person in real space
Feed patients.
#18694 · Core · 6% automatable
Care for patients by changing bed linens, washing and ironing laundry, cleaning, or assisting with their personal care.
physical manipulation — Hands-on patient daily activity assistance
Assist patients with daily activities.
#20577 · Core · 6% automatable
Bathe patients.
physical manipulation — Hands-on patient daily activity assistance
Assist patients with daily activities.
#4240 · Core · 72% automatable
Maintain records of patient care, condition, progress, or problems to report and discuss observations with supervisor or case manager.
data analysis — Maintain records; human owns clinical accuracy
Maintain medical records.
#4241 · Core · 6% automatable
Provide patients with help moving in and out of beds, baths, wheelchairs, or automobiles and with dressing and grooming.
physical manipulation — Hands-on patient daily activity assistance
Assist patients with daily activities.
#4247 · Core · 30% automatable
Check patients' pulse, temperature, and respiration.
physical manipulation — Physical exam requires hands-on patient contact
Assess physical conditions of patients to aid in diagnosis or treatment.
#4244 · Core · 15% automatable
Entertain, converse with, or read aloud to patients to keep them mentally healthy and alert.
physical manipulation — Engaging patients in exercise is physical, in-person care
Engage patients in exercises or activities.
#4242 · Core · 30% automatable
Provide patients and families with emotional support and instruction in areas such as caring for infants, preparing healthy meals, living independently, or adapting to disability or illness.
interpersonal — Hands-on adaptive skill teaching with real people
Teach basic living or other adaptive skills to patients or caregivers.
#4246 · Core · 15% automatable
Direct patients in simple prescribed exercises or in the use of braces or artificial limbs.
physical manipulation — Engaging patients in exercise is physical, in-person care
Engage patients in exercises or activities.
#4250 · Core · 4% automatable
Accompany clients to doctors' offices or on other trips outside the home, providing transportation, assistance, and companionship.
situated mobility — Hands-on accompaniment and assistance in the world
Accompany patients or clients on outings to provide assistance.
#18695 · Core · 5% automatable
Administer prescribed oral medications, under the written direction of physician or as directed by home care nurse or aide, and ensure patients take their medicine.
physical manipulation — Administering meds/injections requires hands-on clinical action
Give medications or immunizations.
#4249 · Core · 4% automatable
Perform a variety of duties as requested by client, such as obtaining household supplies or running errands.
situated mobility — Hands-on accompaniment and assistance in the world
Accompany patients or clients on outings to provide assistance.
#4248 · Supplemental · 6% automatable
Change dressings.
physical manipulation — Applying bandages and splints needs manual dexterity
Apply bandages, dressings, or splints.
#4252 · Supplemental · 6% automatable
Care for children with disabilities or who have sick parents or parents with disabilities.
physical manipulation — Hands-on patient daily activity assistance
Assist patients with daily activities.
#4253 · Supplemental · 8% automatable
Massage patients or apply preparations or treatments, such as liniment, alcohol rubs, or heat-lamp stimulation.
physical manipulation — Hands-on therapy application requires physical dexterity
Administer therapy treatments to patients using hands or physical treatment aids.
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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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