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AI Automation Index
Will AI Replace Residential Advisors?
Task-level automation exposure for Residential Advisors: 30 O*NET tasks scored against their work activities, plus the simulator.
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39%
weighted task index
30 of 30 tasks scored
Median Salary
$42,240 / year
BLS OEWS, May 2025 — this exact occupation
Employment Level
Medium
84,760 people hold this job — size, not growth
Projected 2025–35
+3.5%
employment change
16,500 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.
$27,650 – $49,010
Highest medians
New Hampshire $49,010
Minnesota $48,770
Washington $48,640
North Dakota $48,590
New York $48,380
Lowest medians
Alabama $27,650
Kentucky $30,260
Mississippi $30,900
West Virginia $31,840
Louisiana $33,800
State figures come from the 39-9041 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 39%
Importance-weighted mean of the scored tasks. This is the headline index.
Physical work 16%
Share of weighted tasks in hands-on or machine-operating work activities.
Judgment & influence 31%
Share in analysis, decisions, teaching, directing, advising, or caring for others.
Routine administration 10%
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 36/100
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
30 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) 20%
6 tasks
Medium exposure (≥ 35%) 43%
12 tasks
Low exposure (below 35%) 36%
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 →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 08/2019 · Incumbent
Advise student organizations.
Constituent Tasks
#6974 · Core · 55% automatable
Communicate with other staff to resolve problems with individual students.
interpersonal — Cross-staff problem resolution involves politics and trust
Communicate with management or other staff to resolve problems.
#6977 · Core · 35% automatable
Observe students to detect and report unusual behavior.
situated mobility — Requires live observation of patrons in physical space
Monitor patron activities to identify problems or potential problems.
#20138 · Core · 40% automatable
Supervise, train, and evaluate residence hall staff, including resident assistants, participants in work-study programs, and other student workers.
decision support — Performance review aided; accountability and context human
Evaluate employee performance. Train service staff. Supervise service workers.
#6971 · Core · 5% automatable
Provide emergency first aid and summon medical assistance when necessary.
physical manipulation — Administering first aid requires physical intervention
Administer first aid.
#6976 · Core · 35% automatable
Make regular rounds to ensure that residents and areas are safe and secure.
situated mobility — Physical environment safety monitoring needs on-site sensing
Monitor environment to ensure safety.
#6972 · Core · 30% automatable
Mediate interpersonal problems between residents.
interpersonal — Mediation requires live facilitation and trust
Mediate disputes.
#6970 · Core · 15% automatable
Enforce rules and regulations to ensure the smooth and orderly operation of dormitory programs.
interpersonal — Enforcing rules requires human presence and authority
Enforce rules or regulations.
#6978 · Core · 38% automatable
Determine the need for facility maintenance and repair, and notify appropriate personnel.
interpersonal — Cross-staff problem resolution involves politics and trust
Inspect facilities. Communicate with management or other staff to resolve problems.
#6979 · Core · 62% automatable
Collaborate with counselors to develop counseling programs that address the needs of individual students.
text generation — Service plans drafted; operational ownership human
Develop plans for programs or services.
#20137 · Core · 40% automatable
Develop and coordinate educational programs for residents.
text generation — Drafts training programs; needs analysis and delivery human
Develop educational or training programs. Teach daily living skills or behaviors.
#6980 · Core · 55% automatable
Develop program plans for individuals or assist in plan development.
text generation — Drafts training programs; needs analysis and delivery human
Develop educational or training programs.
#6984 · Core · 65% automatable
Provide requested information on students' progress and the development of case plans.
text generation — Status notifications drafted and sent by AI
Inform individuals or organizations of status or findings.
#6985 · Core · 45% automatable
Confer with medical personnel to better understand the backgrounds and needs of individual residents.
interpersonal — Client info gathering needs human relationship and trust
Collect information about clients.
#6973 · Core · 32% automatable
Administer, coordinate, or recommend disciplinary and corrective actions.
interpersonal — Enforcing behavior requires in-person authority and judgment
Enforce rules or policies governing student behavior.
#6986 · Core · 60% automatable
Answer telephones, and route calls or deliver messages.
text generation — Broad clerical tasks partly automatable, human oversees exceptions
Perform administrative or clerical tasks.
#6975 · Core · 25% automatable
Counsel students in the handling of issues such as family, financial, and educational problems.
interpersonal — Comfort and encouragement need live emotional presence
Provide counsel, comfort, or encouragement to individuals or families.
#6981 · Core · 50% automatable
Hold regular meetings with each assigned unit.
interpersonal — Work-order meetings are live coordination
Meet with coworkers to communicate work orders or plans.
#6994 · Core · 72% automatable
Compile information such as residents' daily activities and the quantities of supplies used to prepare required reports.
text generation — Maintain client records; human owns sensitive judgment
Maintain client information or service records.
#6993 · Core · 4% automatable
Chaperone group-sponsored trips and social functions.
situated mobility — Physically accompanying groups in real environments
Accompany individuals or groups to activities.
#6991 · Core · 75% automatable
Order supplies for facilities.
decision support — Ordering via systems automatable; human approves spend
Order materials, supplies, or equipment.
#20139 · Supplemental · 45% automatable
Oversee departmental budget.
data analysis — Budget management aided by AI, human owns decisions
Manage budgets for personal services operations.
#6992 · Supplemental · 28% automatable
Supervise students' housekeeping work to ensure that it is done properly.
interpersonal — Directing service workers requires live human presence
Supervise service workers.
#6988 · Supplemental · 80% automatable
Process contract cancellations for students who are unable to follow residence hall policies and procedures.
text generation — Administrative documents drafted from templates
Prepare administrative documents.
#6995 · Supplemental · 4% automatable
Accompany and supervise students during meals.
situated mobility — Physically accompanying groups in real environments
Accompany individuals or groups to activities.
#6990 · Supplemental · 28% automatable
Supervise the activities of housekeeping personnel.
interpersonal — Directing service workers requires live human presence
Supervise service workers.
#6983 · Supplemental · 45% automatable
Assign rooms to students.
decision support — Scheduling/allocation logic helps; human resolves conflicts
Assign resources or facilities to patrons or employees.
#6996 · Supplemental · 10% automatable
Provide transportation or escort for expeditions, such as shopping trips or visits to doctors or dentists.
situated mobility — Physical escort and transportation of people
Provide escort or transportation.
#6982 · Supplemental · 40% automatable
Direct and participate in on- and off-campus recreational activities for residents of institutions, boarding schools, fraternities or sororities, children's homes, or similar establishments.
interpersonal — Event organizing aided; logistics and presence human
Organize recreational activities or events.
#6989 · Supplemental · 10% automatable
Sort and distribute mail.
situated mobility — Physical delivery of items in real environments
Deliver items.
#6997 · Supplemental · 8% automatable
Inventory, pack, and remove items left behind by former residents.
physical manipulation — Physically placing and storing items
Store items. Package materials or products.
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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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