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AI Automation Index
Will AI Replace Paramedics?
Task-level automation exposure for Paramedics: 13 O*NET tasks scored against their work activities, plus the simulator.
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29%
weighted task index
13 of 13 tasks scored
Median Salary
$60,600 / year
BLS OEWS, May 2025 — this exact occupation
Employment Level
High
100,610 people hold this job — size, not growth
Projected 2025–35
+5.7%
employment change
4,300 openings a year · BLS line item
Pay by state
BLS OEWS publishes 52 state estimates for this occupation. Each is its own survey estimate, not the national median adjusted for local prices.
$29,960 – $104,310
Highest medians
Washington $104,310
New Jersey $86,630
Hawaii $81,280
District of Columbia $78,550
Connecticut $77,480
Lowest medians
Puerto Rico $29,960
Oklahoma $46,790
West Virginia $48,460
Alabama $48,540
South Dakota $48,830
State figures come from the 29-2043 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 29%
Importance-weighted mean of the scored tasks. This is the headline index.
Physical work 8%
Share of weighted tasks in hands-on or machine-operating work activities.
Judgment & influence 68%
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 71/100
High
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) 6%
1 tasks
Medium exposure (≥ 35%) 32%
4 tasks
Low exposure (below 35%) 62%
8 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 08/2026 · Occupational Expert
Lift and move patients using assistive devices, such as stretchers and stairchairs.
Constituent Tasks
#22874 · Core · 15% automatable
Perform emergency cardiac care, such as cardioversion and manual defibrillation.
physical manipulation — Hands-on emergency resuscitation and physical intervention
Treat medical emergencies. Implement advanced life support techniques.
#22875 · Core · 18% automatable
Perform emergency invasive intervention before delivering patient to an acute care facility.
physical manipulation — Hands-on emergency resuscitation and physical intervention
Treat medical emergencies.
#22870 · Core · 40% automatable
Coordinate work with other emergency medical team members or police or fire department personnel.
interpersonal — Treatment planning collaboration is accountable clinical work
Collaborate with healthcare professionals to plan or provide treatment.
#22866 · Core · 55% automatable
Assess nature and extent of illness or injury to establish and prioritize medical procedures.
decision support — Treatment goals need clinical accountability and context
Analyze patient data to determine patient needs or treatment goals.
#22868 · Core · 15% automatable
Comfort and reassure patients.
interpersonal — Rapport and emotional support require live human presence
Interact with patients to build rapport or provide emotional support.
#22865 · Core · 18% automatable
Administer first aid treatment or life support care to sick or injured persons in prehospital settings.
physical manipulation — Hands-on emergency resuscitation and physical intervention
Treat medical emergencies.
#22873 · Core · 16% automatable
Operate equipment, such as electrocardiograms (EKGs), external defibrillators, or bag valve mask resuscitators, in advanced life support environments.
physical manipulation — Diagnostic instruments applied to patients by hand
Operate diagnostic or therapeutic medical instruments or equipment. Implement advanced life support techniques.
#22876 · Core · 9% automatable
Perform emergency pharmacological interventions.
physical manipulation — Hands-on emergency resuscitation and physical intervention
Administer non-intravenous medications. Administer intravenous medications. Treat medical emergencies.
#22864 · Core · 5% automatable
Administer drugs, orally or by injection, or perform intravenous procedures.
physical manipulation — Administering medications is hands-on clinical action
Administer non-intravenous medications. Administer intravenous medications.
#22867 · Core · 75% automatable
Attend training classes to maintain certification licensure, keep abreast of new developments in the field, or maintain existing knowledge.
information retrieval — AI summarizes medical updates; human retains judgment
Maintain medical or professional knowledge.
#22872 · Core · 47% automatable
Observe, record, and report to physician the patient's condition or injury, the treatment provided, and reactions to drugs or treatment.
interpersonal — Patient history requires live elicitation and judgment
Monitor patient progress or responses to treatments. Record patient medical histories. Inform medical professionals regarding patient conditions and care.
#22871 · Core · 30% automatable
Instruct emergency medical response team about emergency interventions to ensure correct application of procedures.
interpersonal — Provider training is clinical, hands-on, accountable
Train medical providers. Teach medical procedures to healthcare personnel.
#22869 · Core · 40% automatable
Coordinate with treatment center personnel to obtain patients' vital statistics and medical history, to determine the circumstances of the emergency, and to administer emergency treatment.
interpersonal — Treatment planning collaboration is accountable clinical work
Collaborate with healthcare professionals to plan or provide treatment.
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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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