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AI Automation Index
Will AI Replace Management Analysts?
Task-level automation exposure for Management Analysts: 11 O*NET tasks scored against their work activities, plus the simulator.
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61%
weighted task index
11 of 11 tasks scored
Median Salary
$101,860 / year
BLS OEWS, May 2025 — this exact occupation
Employment Level
Very High
898,280 people hold this job — size, not growth
Projected 2025–35
+10.1%
employment change
94,100 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.
$69,390 – $134,720
Highest medians
Massachusetts $134,720
District of Columbia $126,140
Maryland $121,680
Virginia $117,580
New York $112,250
Lowest medians
Mississippi $69,390
Arkansas $72,950
Nebraska $75,360
Maine $75,530
Guam $78,030
State figures come from the 13-1111 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 61%
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 51%
Share in analysis, decisions, teaching, directing, advising, or caring for others.
Routine administration 18%
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 5/100
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
11 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) 62%
7 tasks
Medium exposure (≥ 35%) 38%
4 tasks
Low exposure (below 35%) 0%
0 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 →Constituent Tasks
#7276 · Core · 72% automatable
Gather and organize information on problems or procedures.
data analysis — Gather performance info, human validates sources
Gather organizational performance information.
#7278 · Core · 45% automatable
Confer with personnel concerned to ensure successful functioning of newly implemented systems or procedures.
interpersonal — Business operations coordination is live and relational
Confer with personnel to coordinate business operations.
#7277 · Core · 80% automatable
Analyze data gathered and develop solutions or alternative methods of proceeding.
data analysis — Analyzes structured financial data with tools
Analyze business or financial data.
#7282 · Core · 69% automatable
Document findings of study and prepare recommendations for implementation of new systems, procedures, or organizational changes.
text generation — Research reports drafted; human owns findings
Prepare research reports. Advise others on business or operational matters.
#7285 · Core · 55% automatable
Plan study of work problems and procedures, such as organizational change, communications, information flow, integrated production methods, inventory control, or cost analysis.
text generation — AI drafts evaluation procedures; human adapts to org
Conduct scientific research of organizational behavior or processes. Develop procedures to evaluate organizational activities.
#7281 · Core · 40% automatable
Interview personnel and conduct on-site observation to ascertain unit functions, work performed, and methods, equipment, and personnel used.
interpersonal — Job analysis needs observation and interviews in person
Analyze jobs using observation, survey, or interview techniques.
#7283 · Core · 68% automatable
Prepare manuals and train workers in use of new forms, reports, procedures or equipment, according to organizational policy.
text generation — Draft training materials; human tailors content
Develop training materials. Train personnel in organizational or compliance procedures.
#7280 · Core · 45% automatable
Review forms and reports and confer with management and users about format, distribution, and purpose, identifying problems and improvements.
interpersonal — Strategy discussion with managers is accountable judgment
Discuss business strategies, practices, or policies with managers.
#7279 · Core · 60% automatable
Develop and implement records management program for filing, protection, and retrieval of records, and assure compliance with program.
decision support — AI drafts system specs; business context human
Develop business or financial information systems.
#7284 · Core · 81% automatable
Design, evaluate, recommend, and approve changes of forms and reports.
text generation — AI edits prose well; human owns voice and final judgment
Edit written materials. Edit documents.
#7286 · Supplemental · 62% automatable
Recommend purchase of storage equipment and design area layout to locate equipment in space available.
decision support — Drafts advice; accountability and context owned by human
Advise others on business or operational matters.
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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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