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AI Automation Index
Will AI Replace Regulatory Affairs Managers?
Task-level automation exposure for Regulatory Affairs Managers: 27 O*NET tasks scored against their work activities, plus the simulator.
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57%
weighted task index
27 of 27 tasks scored
Median Salary
$141,900 / year
BLS OEWS, May 2025 — this exact occupation
Employment Level
Very High
622,190 people hold this job — size, not growth
Projected 2025–35
+4.9%
employment change
100,900 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.
$79,900 – $182,950
Highest medians
Massachusetts $182,950
District of Columbia $175,720
California $174,560
Colorado $171,140
Delaware $168,060
Lowest medians
Indiana $79,900
Puerto Rico $82,250
Arkansas $87,520
Virgin Islands $95,530
Tennessee $99,430
State figures come from the 11-9199 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 57%
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 65%
Share in analysis, decisions, teaching, directing, advising, or caring for others.
Routine administration 4%
Share in documenting, recording, and administrative activities.
Rewritten by O*NET 5%
Share of weighted tasks O*NET rewrote in a recent update. Reported, not folded into the score.
Consequence of error 9/100
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
27 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) 43%
11 tasks
Medium exposure (≥ 35%) 42%
12 tasks
Low exposure (below 35%) 15%
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.
- Revision 08/2024 · Occupational Expert
Develop and review regulatory strategies, development plans, and implementation plans for the preparation and submission of new products.
Replaced: Develop regulatory strategies and implementation plans for the preparation and submission of new products.
Constituent Tasks
#18026 · Core · 58% automatable
Revision
Develop regulatory strategies and implementation plans for the preparation and submission of new products.
decision support — AI drafts strategies; human owns operational judgment
Develop operating strategies, plans, or procedures.
#18037 · Core · 80% automatable
Review all regulatory agency submission materials to ensure timeliness, accuracy, comprehensiveness, or compliance with regulatory standards.
text generation — Policy compliance document review, human owns final call
Review documents or materials for compliance with policies or regulations.
#18022 · Core · 33% automatable
Direct the preparation and submission of regulatory agency applications, reports, or correspondence.
interpersonal — Managing control systems needs human accountability
Manage control system activities in organizations.
#18029 · Core · 74% automatable
Investigate product complaints and prepare documentation and submissions to appropriate regulatory agencies as necessary.
text generation — Maintain compliance docs; human verifies currency
Prepare reports related to compliance matters. Maintain regulatory or compliance documentation.
#18035 · Core · 60% automatable
Provide responses to regulatory agencies regarding product information or issues.
text generation — Information exchange coordination largely automatable
Coordinate with external parties to exchange information.
#18036 · Core · 30% automatable
Represent organizations before domestic or international regulatory agencies on major policy matters or decisions regarding company products.
interpersonal — External representation requires human presence and authority
Represent the organization in external relations.
#18024 · Core · 55% automatable
Provide regulatory guidance to departments or development project teams regarding design, development, evaluation, or marketing of products.
decision support — Compliance guidance drafted; human verifies and owns
Advise others on legal or regulatory compliance matters.
#18031 · Core · 33% automatable
Manage activities such as audits, regulatory agency inspections, or product recalls.
interpersonal — Managing control systems needs human accountability
Manage control system activities in organizations.
#18025 · Core · 60% automatable
Communicate regulatory information to multiple departments and ensure that information is interpreted correctly.
text generation — AI drafts policy communications; human approves
Communicate organizational policies and procedures.
#18030 · Core · 80% automatable
Maintain current knowledge of relevant regulations, including proposed and final rules.
information retrieval — AI summarizes developments; human retains expertise
Maintain knowledge of current developments in area of expertise.
#18023 · Core · 49% automatable
Formulate or implement regulatory affairs policies and procedures to ensure that regulatory compliance is maintained or enhanced.
decision support — AI drafts strategies; human owns operational judgment
Implement organizational process or policy changes. Develop organizational policies or programs. Develop operating strategies, plans, or procedures.
#21087 · Core · 62% automatable
Direct documentation efforts to ensure compliance with domestic and international regulations and standards.
text generation — Organize and check documentation accuracy largely automatable
Coordinate regulatory documentation activities. Manage documentation to ensure organization or accuracy. Manage control system activities in organizations.
#18038 · Core · 78% automatable
Review materials such as marketing literature or user manuals to ensure that regulatory agency requirements are met.
text generation — Marketing compliance review against rules, human signs off
Examine marketing materials to ensure compliance with policies or regulations.
#18034 · Core · 58% automatable
Participate in the development or implementation of clinical trial protocols.
decision support — AI proposes procedures; human validates fit
Develop organizational methods or procedures.
#18028 · Core · 48% automatable
Implement or monitor complaint processing systems to ensure effective and timely resolution of all complaint investigations.
data analysis — Procedure conformance monitoring is largely document and data based
Monitor organizational procedures to ensure proper functioning. Implement organizational process or policy changes.
#18043 · Core · 58% automatable
Establish procedures or systems for publishing document submissions in hardcopy or electronic formats.
decision support — AI drafts strategies; human owns operational judgment
Develop operating strategies, plans, or procedures.
#18027 · Core · 68% automatable
Establish regulatory priorities or budgets and allocate resources and workloads.
decision support — Generate schedules from constraints; human resolves conflicts
Develop organizational goals or objectives. Prepare staff schedules or work assignments. Prepare operational budgets.
#18039 · Core · 45% automatable
Train staff in regulatory policies or procedures.
interpersonal — Program design aided, delivery and engagement are human
Conduct employee training programs.
#18042 · Core · 58% automatable
Develop and maintain standard operating procedures or local working practices.
decision support — AI drafts strategies; human owns operational judgment
Develop operating strategies, plans, or procedures.
#18040 · Core · 47% automatable
Contribute to the development or implementation of business unit strategic and operating plans.
decision support — AI drafts strategies; human owns operational judgment
Implement organizational process or policy changes. Develop operating strategies, plans, or procedures.
#19531 · Core · 65% automatable
Monitor regulatory affairs activities to ensure their alignment with corporate sustainability or green initiatives.
decision support — AI tracks regulatory compliance across documents
Monitor organizational compliance with regulations.
#18041 · Core · 45% automatable
Coordinate internal discoveries and depositions with legal department staff.
interpersonal — Coordinating work through live human interaction
Confer with organizational members to accomplish work activities.
#18032 · Core · 78% automatable
Monitor emerging trends regarding industry regulations to determine potential impacts on organizational processes.
information retrieval — AI monitors news and events affecting operations
Monitor external affairs or events affecting business operations.
#19529 · Core · 28% automatable
Develop relationships with state or federal environmental regulatory agencies to learn about and analyze the potential impacts of proposed environmental policy regulations.
interpersonal — Interpersonal business relationships are inherently human
Establish interpersonal business relationships to facilitate work activities.
#19532 · Core · 78% automatable
Monitor regulatory affairs trends related to environmental issues.
information retrieval — AI monitors news and events affecting operations
Monitor external affairs or events affecting business operations.
#19530 · Core · 55% automatable
Evaluate regulatory affairs aspects that are specifically green, such as the use of toxic substances in packaging, carbon footprinting issues, or green policy implementation.
data analysis — Evaluation aided; regulatory judgment and site data human
Evaluate environmental impact of operational or development activities.
#18044 · Supplemental · 55% automatable
Evaluate new software publishing systems and confer with regulatory agencies concerning news or updates on electronic publishing of submissions.
decision support — Potential assessment aided by research, human decides
Evaluate potential of products, technologies, or resources. Coordinate operational activities with external stakeholders.
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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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