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AI Automation Index
Will AI Replace Wind Energy Development Managers?
Task-level automation exposure for Wind Energy Development Managers: 15 O*NET tasks scored against their work activities, plus the simulator.
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58%
weighted task index
15 of 15 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 58%
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 61%
Share in analysis, decisions, teaching, directing, advising, or caring for others.
Routine administration 18%
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 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
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) 64%
10 tasks
Medium exposure (≥ 35%) 21%
3 tasks
Low exposure (below 35%) 15%
2 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
#15836 · Core · 34% automatable
Coordinate or direct development, energy assessment, engineering, or construction activities to ensure that wind project needs and objectives are met.
decision support — Sustainability projects need stakeholder judgment and authority
Manage construction activities. Manage environmental sustainability projects.
#15834 · Core · 55% automatable
Manage wind project costs to stay within budget limits.
decision support — AI tracks and models budgets; human owns allocation decisions
Manage organizational or project budgets.
#15827 · Core · 35% automatable
Lead or support negotiations involving tax agreements or abatements, power purchase agreements, land use, or interconnection agreements.
interpersonal — Contract negotiation needs authority and accountability
Negotiate contracts for environmental remediation, green energy, or renewable resources.
#15838 · Core · 60% automatable
Create wind energy project plans, including project scope, goals, tasks, resources, schedules, costs, contingencies, or other project information.
text generation — Strategies drafted; operational feasibility human-owned
Develop operating strategies, plans, or procedures for green or sustainable operations.
#15824 · Core · 28% automatable
Supervise the work of subcontractors or consultants to ensure quality and conformance to specifications or budgets.
interpersonal — Directing workers in the field is human supervision
Supervise workers performing environmentally sustainable activities.
#15835 · Core · 60% automatable
Develop scope of work for wind project functions, such as design, site assessment, environmental studies, surveying, or field support services.
text generation — Strategies drafted; operational feasibility human-owned
Develop operating strategies, plans, or procedures for green or sustainable operations.
#15830 · Core · 60% automatable
Provide verbal or written project status reports to project teams, management, subcontractors, customers, or owners.
text generation — AI drafts green energy communications; human reviews
Communicate green energy production information.
#15828 · Core · 62% automatable
Update schedules, estimates, forecasts, or budgets for wind projects.
data analysis — Green project cost estimation from inputs
Estimate green project costs.
#15837 · Core · 80% automatable
Prepare or assist in the preparation of applications for environmental, building, or other required permits.
text generation — Fill forms from provided information
Prepare forms or applications.
#15829 · Core · 62% automatable
Review or evaluate proposals or bids to make recommendations regarding awarding of contracts.
data analysis — Evaluates sustainability projects; human owns criteria
Evaluate environmental or sustainability projects.
#15826 · Core · 45% automatable
Manage site assessments or environmental studies for wind fields.
decision support — Sustainability projects need stakeholder judgment and authority
Manage environmental sustainability projects.
#15833 · Core · 75% automatable
Prepare wind project documentation, including diagrams or layouts.
text generation — Document organizational procedures from provided content
Document organizational or operational procedures.
#15831 · Core · 80% automatable
Review civil design, engineering, or construction technical documentation to ensure compliance with applicable government or industrial codes, standards, requirements, or regulations.
text generation — Policy compliance document review, human owns final call
Review documents or materials for compliance with policies or regulations.
#15825 · Core · 80% automatable
Prepare requests for proposals (RFPs) for wind project construction or equipment acquisition.
text generation — Fill forms from provided information
Prepare forms or applications.
#15832 · Core · 65% automatable
Provide technical support for the design, construction, or commissioning of wind farm projects.
information retrieval — Green energy advice is knowledge-based with tailoring
Advise others on green energy or related technologies.
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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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