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AI Automation Index
Will AI Replace Treasurers and Controllers?
Task-level automation exposure for Treasurers and Controllers: 22 O*NET tasks scored against their work activities, plus the simulator.
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54%
weighted task index
22 of 22 tasks scored
Median Salary
$166,570 / year
BLS OEWS, May 2025 — this exact occupation
Employment Level
Very High
841,710 people hold this job — size, not growth
Projected 2025–35
+9.7%
employment change
65,600 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.
$80,390 – $219,880
Highest medians
New York $219,880
Massachusetts $206,760
New Jersey $199,110
District of Columbia $188,880
Virginia $185,220
Lowest medians
Guam $80,390
Puerto Rico $90,660
Virgin Islands $94,990
Mississippi $111,390
West Virginia $113,140
State figures come from the 11-3031 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 54%
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 79%
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 8/100
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
22 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) 42%
10 tasks
Medium exposure (≥ 35%) 41%
9 tasks
Low exposure (below 35%) 17%
3 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
Monitor and mitigate foreign exchange risks and exposures from rate volatility.
Constituent Tasks
#20168 · Core · 68% automatable
Monitor financial activities and details, such as cash flow and reserve levels, to ensure that all legal and regulatory requirements are met.
data analysis — Cash flow tracking is digital and analyzable
Monitor flow of cash or other resources. Monitor organizational compliance with regulations.
#8870 · Core · 57% automatable
Evaluate needs for procurement of funds and investment of surpluses and make appropriate recommendations.
decision support — Drafts policy options; political judgment owned by human
Determine resource needs. Recommend organizational process or policy changes.
#8864 · Core · 28% automatable
Develop and maintain relationships with banking, insurance, and external accounting personnel to facilitate financial activities.
interpersonal — Interpersonal business relationships are inherently human
Establish interpersonal business relationships to facilitate work activities.
#8858 · Core · 35% automatable
Delegate authority for the receipt, disbursement, banking, protection, and custody of funds, securities, and financial instruments.
decision support — Financial operations direction carries fiduciary accountability
Direct financial operations.
#8861 · Core · 30% automatable
Receive, record, and authorize requests for disbursements in accordance with company policies and procedures.
decision support — Expenditure approval is accountable human act
Approve expenditures.
#8868 · Core · 62% automatable
Advise management on short-term and long-term financial objectives, policies, and actions.
decision support — Drafts advice; accountability and context owned by human
Advise others on business or operational matters.
#8865 · Core · 35% automatable
Coordinate and direct the financial planning, budgeting, procurement, or investment activities of all or part of an organization.
decision support — Financial operations direction carries fiduciary accountability
Direct financial operations.
#8856 · Core · 61% automatable
Prepare or direct preparation of financial statements, business activity reports, financial position forecasts, annual budgets, or reports required by regulatory agencies.
data analysis — Reports and budgets drafted; human owns assumptions
Prepare financial documents, reports, or budgets. Prepare reports related to compliance matters. Direct financial operations.
#8866 · Core · 56% automatable
Develop internal control policies, guidelines, and procedures for activities, such as budget administration, cash and credit management, and accounting.
decision support — AI drafts strategies; human owns operational judgment
Develop organizational policies or programs. Develop operating strategies, plans, or procedures.
#8872 · Core · 35% automatable
Receive cash and checks and make deposits.
physical manipulation — In-person payment handling; some digital automation
Collect payments for goods or services.
#8867 · Core · 74% automatable
Analyze the financial details of past, present, and expected operations to identify development opportunities and areas where improvement is needed.
data analysis — Efficiency analysis from records; human verifies
Analyze financial records to improve efficiency.
#8859 · Core · 80% automatable
Maintain current knowledge of organizational policies and procedures, federal and state policies and directives, and current accounting standards.
information retrieval — AI summarizes developments; human retains expertise
Maintain knowledge of current developments in area of expertise.
#8863 · Core · 55% automatable
Monitor and evaluate the performance of accounting and other financial staff, recommending and implementing personnel actions, such as promotions and dismissals.
decision support — Performance review aided; accountability and context human
Evaluate employee performance.
#8855 · Supplemental · 82% automatable
Prepare and file annual tax returns or prepare financial information so that outside accountants can complete tax returns.
data analysis — Compiling operational data from sources is automatable
Compile operational data. Prepare financial documents, reports, or budgets.
#8857 · Supplemental · 30% automatable
Supervise employees performing financial reporting, accounting, billing, collections, payroll, and budgeting duties.
interpersonal — Employee supervision is accountability-bearing human work
Supervise employees.
#8873 · Supplemental · 88% automatable
Compute, withhold, and account for all payroll deductions.
data analysis — Financial calculations fully automatable
Calculate financial data.
#20169 · Supplemental · 66% automatable
Handle all aspects of employee insurance, benefits, and casualty programs, including monitoring changes in health insurance regulations and creating budgets for benefits and worker's compensation.
data analysis — Budget drafting from assumptions; human validates assumptions
Prepare operational budgets. Administer compensation or benefits programs.
#8860 · Supplemental · 42% automatable
Conduct or coordinate audits of company accounts and financial transactions to ensure compliance with state and federal requirements and statutes.
decision support — Audit fieldwork and attestation remain human-owned
Conduct financial or regulatory audits. Manage control system activities in organizations.
#8874 · Supplemental · 75% automatable
Perform tax planning work.
data analysis — Analyzes records for budgeting; human sets priorities
Analyze financial records to improve budgeting or planning.
#8869 · Supplemental · 62% automatable
Provide direction and assistance to other organizational units regarding accounting and budgeting policies and procedures and efficient control and utilization of financial resources.
decision support — Drafts advice; accountability and context owned by human
Advise others on business or operational matters.
#8875 · Supplemental · 56% automatable
Determine depreciation rates to apply to capitalized items and advise management on actions regarding the purchase, lease, or disposal of such items.
decision support — Drafts advice; accountability and context owned by human
Determine pricing or monetary policies. Advise others on business or operational matters.
#8871 · Supplemental · 45% automatable
Lead staff training and development in budgeting and financial management areas.
interpersonal — Program design aided, delivery and engagement are human
Conduct employee training programs.
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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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