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AI Automation Index
Will AI Replace Parking Attendants?
Task-level automation exposure for Parking Attendants: 15 O*NET tasks scored against their work activities, plus the simulator.
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20%
weighted task index
15 of 15 tasks scored
Median Salary
$35,150 / year
BLS OEWS, May 2025 — this exact occupation
Employment Level
High
137,880 people hold this job — size, not growth
Projected 2025–35
+2.0%
employment change
16,400 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.
$21,840 – $43,180
Highest medians
Washington $43,180
Colorado $39,330
Oregon $38,730
Vermont $38,160
California $38,060
Lowest medians
Puerto Rico $21,840
Louisiana $23,920
Mississippi $26,420
Montana $27,100
Oklahoma $27,230
State figures come from the 53-6021 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 20%
Importance-weighted mean of the scored tasks. This is the headline index.
Physical work 29%
Share of weighted tasks in hands-on or machine-operating work activities.
Judgment & influence 44%
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 45/100
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) 0%
0 tasks
Medium exposure (≥ 35%) 22%
3 tasks
Low exposure (below 35%) 78%
12 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
#3187 · Core · 15% automatable
Take numbered tags from customers, locate vehicles, and deliver vehicles, or provide customers with instructions for locating vehicles.
interpersonal — In-person comfort and safety assurance
Assist customers to ensure comfort or safety.
#3196 · Core · 20% automatable
Inspect vehicles to detect any damage.
visual inspection — Vehicle inspection is physical on-site work
Inspect motor vehicles.
#3192 · Core · 15% automatable
Greet customers and open their car doors.
interpersonal — In-person comfort and safety assurance
Assist customers to ensure comfort or safety.
#20835 · Core · 12% automatable
Issue ticket stubs or place numbered tags on windshields, log tags or attach tag to customers' keys, and give customers matching tags for locating parked vehicles.
physical manipulation — Physically applying labels requires hands
Apply identification labels or tags.
#20836 · Core · 55% automatable
Perform cash handling tasks, such as making change, balancing and recording cash drawer, or distributing tips.
data analysis — Balancing receipts is arithmetic, human handles discrepancies
Balance receipts. Prepare cash for deposit or disbursement.
#20837 · Core · 20% automatable
Explain and calculate parking charges, collect fees from customers, and respond to customer complaints.
physical manipulation — Collecting fares physically from customers
Collect fares or payment from customers.
#3191 · Core · 10% automatable
Park and retrieve automobiles for customers in parking lots, storage garages, or new car lots.
situated mobility — Driving passenger vehicles needs real-world control
Drive passenger vehicles.
#20838 · Core · 35% automatable
Provide customer assistance and information, such as giving directions or handling wheelchairs.
information retrieval — Transport info lookup automatable; live assistance human
Provide transportation information to passengers or customers. Assist customers to ensure comfort or safety.
#3188 · Core · 5% automatable
Keep parking areas clean and orderly to ensure that space usage is maximized.
physical manipulation — Physical cleaning of facilities and work areas
Clean facilities or work areas.
#20839 · Core · 35% automatable
Call emergency responders or the proper authorities and provide motorist assistance, such as giving directions or helping jump start a stalled vehicle.
interpersonal — Emergency request requires live accountable action
Request emergency personnel. Assist customers to ensure comfort or safety.
#3190 · Supplemental · 30% automatable
Patrol parking areas to prevent vehicle damage and vehicle or property thefts.
situated mobility — Hazard detection in surroundings needs embodied sensing
Monitor surroundings to detect potential hazards.
#3189 · Supplemental · 5% automatable
Direct motorists to parking areas or parking spaces, using hand signals or flashlights as necessary.
situated mobility — Directing live traffic requires physical presence
Direct vehicle traffic.
#3198 · Supplemental · 5% automatable
Escort customers to their vehicles to ensure their safety.
physical manipulation — Physical boarding assistance
Assist passengers during vehicle boarding.
#3200 · Supplemental · 8% automatable
Perform maintenance on cars in storage to protect tires, batteries, or exteriors from deterioration.
physical manipulation — Physical vehicle maintenance work
Maintain vehicles in good working condition.
#3195 · Supplemental · 8% automatable
Lift, position, and remove barricades to open or close parking areas.
physical manipulation — Manual moving of materials and supplies
Move materials, equipment, or supplies.
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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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