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AI Automation Index
Will AI Replace Security Managers?
Task-level automation exposure for Security Managers: 28 O*NET tasks scored against their work activities, plus the simulator.
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52%
weighted task index
28 of 28 tasks scored
Median Salary
$106,660 / year
BLS OEWS, May 2025 — this exact occupation
Employment Level
High
156,180 people hold this job — size, not growth
Projected 2025–35
+4.6%
employment change
14,200 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.
$66,420 – $139,990
Highest medians
Washington $139,990
New York $131,350
Delaware $129,260
New Jersey $124,110
Massachusetts $124,100
Lowest medians
Virgin Islands $66,420
Puerto Rico $72,500
Guam $79,560
Vermont $88,710
Arkansas $89,810
State figures come from the 11-3013 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 52%
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 72%
Share in analysis, decisions, teaching, directing, advising, or caring for others.
Routine administration 7%
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 21/100
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
28 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) 38%
11 tasks
Medium exposure (≥ 35%) 58%
16 tasks
Low exposure (below 35%) 4%
1 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
#21291 · Core · 72% automatable
Develop budgets for security operations.
data analysis — Budget drafting from assumptions; human validates assumptions
Prepare operational budgets.
#21298 · Core · 35% automatable
Identify, investigate, or resolve security breaches.
visual inspection — AI can watch camera feeds; human maintains physical surveillance
Maintain surveillance of individuals or establishments.
#21302 · Core · 45% automatable
Plan, direct, or coordinate security activities to safeguard company employees, guests, or others on company property.
text generation — Policy drafts aided; organizational adoption human
Develop safety standards, policies, or procedures. Manage organizational security activities.
#21297 · Core · 50% automatable
Direct or participate in emergency management and contingency planning.
text generation — Response plans drafted; compliance review human
Develop emergency response plans or procedures. Direct organizational operations, projects, or services.
#21305 · Core · 10% automatable
Respond to medical emergencies, bomb threats, fire alarms, or intrusion alarms, following emergency response procedures.
situated mobility — Emergency response needs physical action in the world
Respond to emergencies to provide assistance.
#21283 · Core · 60% automatable
Analyze and evaluate security operations to identify risks or opportunities for improvement through auditing, review, or assessment.
decision support — Risk analysis aids; accountability-bearing judgment human
Analyze risks to minimize losses or damages.
#21290 · Core · 45% automatable
Create or implement security standards, policies, and procedures.
text generation — Policy drafts aided; organizational adoption human
Implement organizational process or policy changes. Develop safety standards, policies, or procedures.
#21284 · Core · 57% automatable
Assess risks to mitigate potential consequences of incidents and develop a plan to respond to incidents.
decision support — Risk analysis aids; accountability-bearing judgment human
Analyze risks to minimize losses or damages. Develop safety standards, policies, or procedures.
#21307 · Core · 43% automatable
Supervise or provide leadership to subordinate security professionals, performing activities such as hiring, investigating applicants' backgrounds, training, assigning work, evaluating performance, or disciplining.
decision support — Performance review aided; accountability and context human
Evaluate employee performance. Supervise employees.
#21295 · Core · 42% automatable
Develop, implement, manage, or evaluate policies and methods to protect personnel against harassment, threats, or violence.
decision support — AI drafts policies; accountability and context are human
Implement organizational process or policy changes. Develop organizational policies or programs. Manage human resources activities.
#21296 · Core · 45% automatable
Develop, recommend, or manage security procedures for operations or processes, such as security call centers, access control, and reporting tools.
text generation — Policy drafts aided; organizational adoption human
Develop safety standards, policies, or procedures. Manage organizational security activities.
#21301 · Core · 35% automatable
Plan security for special and high-risk events.
decision support — Security management needs accountability and situational judgment
Manage organizational security activities.
#21288 · Core · 60% automatable
Conduct threat or vulnerability analyses to determine probable frequency, criticality, consequence, or severity of natural or man-made disasters or criminal activity on the organization's profitability or delivery of products or services.
decision support — Risk analysis aids; accountability-bearing judgment human
Analyze risks to minimize losses or damages.
#21287 · Core · 45% automatable
Conduct physical examinations of property to ensure compliance with security policies and regulations.
data analysis — Systems data monitored by AI; facilities need human oversight
Monitor facilities or operational systems.
#21300 · Core · 50% automatable
Monitor security policies, programs or procedures to ensure compliance with internal security policies, or applicable government security requirements, policies, and directives.
decision support — AI tracks regulatory compliance across documents
Monitor organizational compliance with regulations. Manage organizational security activities.
#21289 · Core · 45% automatable
Coordinate security operations or activities with public law enforcement, fire and other agencies.
text generation — Drafting agency communications aided; relationships human
Communicate with government agencies. Manage organizational security activities.
#21299 · Core · 65% automatable
Monitor and ensure a sound, ethical environment.
decision support — AI tracks regulatory compliance across documents
Monitor organizational compliance with regulations.
#21310 · Core · 70% automatable
Write or review security-related documents, such as incident reports, proposals, and tactical or strategic initiatives.
text generation — Draft compliance reports; human verifies facts
Prepare reports related to compliance matters.
#21286 · Core · 60% automatable
Communicate security status, updates, and actual or potential problems, using established protocols.
text generation — AI drafts policy communications; human approves
Communicate organizational policies and procedures.
#21309 · Core · 49% automatable
Train subordinate security professionals or other organization members in security rules and procedures.
text generation — Compliance content AI-draftable; live training human
Train employees on environmental awareness, conservation, or safety topics. Conduct employee training programs.
#21292 · Core · 35% automatable
Develop or manage investigation programs, including collection and preservation of video and notes of surveillance processes or investigative interviews.
decision support — Security management needs accountability and situational judgment
Manage organizational security activities.
#21303 · Core · 65% automatable
Prepare reports or make presentations on internal investigations, losses, or violations of regulations, policies and procedures.
text generation — Draft compliance reports; human verifies facts
Prepare reports related to compliance matters. Communicate organizational policies and procedures.
#21285 · Core · 80% automatable
Attend meetings, professional seminars, or conferences to keep abreast of changes in executive legislative directives or new technologies impacting security operations.
information retrieval — AI summarizes developments; human retains expertise
Maintain knowledge of current developments in area of expertise.
#21304 · Core · 65% automatable
Purchase security-related supplies, equipment, or technology.
decision support — Procurement drafting and comparison; human commits funds
Purchase materials, equipment, or other resources.
#21293 · Core · 47% automatable
Develop, arrange for, perform, or assess executive protection activities to reduce security risks.
decision support — AI drafts strategies; human owns operational judgment
Implement organizational process or policy changes. Develop operating strategies, plans, or procedures.
#21306 · Core · 74% automatable
Review financial reports to ensure efficiency and quality of security operations.
data analysis — Efficiency analysis from records; human verifies
Analyze financial records to improve efficiency.
#21294 · Core · 68% automatable
Develop, conduct, support, or assist in governmental reviews, internal corporate evaluations, or assessments of the overall effectiveness of facility and personnel security processes.
data analysis — Program metrics analysis, human owns conclusions
Evaluate program effectiveness. Develop procedures to evaluate organizational activities.
#21308 · Core · 45% automatable
Support efforts to reduce substance abuse or other illegal activities in the workplace.
decision support — Broad HR work needs human judgment and accountability
Perform human resources activities.
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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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