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AI exposure Business and financial operations

Will AI replace compensation?

Compensation, Benefits, and Job Analysis Specialists. US occupation 13-1141.

6.5%

of the time compensation spend on their work goes on tasks where AI is already being used to do that work.of compensation's working hours go on tasks AI has already started taking off their plate.

Ranked 226 of 756 US occupations. More exposed than 69% of them.Further along than 69% of them.

Average US job 7.7%

Around the middle of the pack.Keeping pace with the average job.

What AI already does for compensationWhat compensation no longer do alone

O*NET lists 21 tasks for compensation. AI use at work shows up in 3 of them. Each score runs from 0.5, where every observed use helps a person with the task, to 1, where every use does the task outright.

  1. Analyze organizational, occupational, and industrial data to facilitate organizational functions and provide technical information to business, industry, and government. mostly automated 0.98
  2. Prepare research results for publication in form of journals, books, manuals, and film. automated and assisted 0.82
  3. Plan and develop curricula and materials for training programs and conduct training.Core task automated and assisted 0.81

What it does not touch, yetWhat still needs a human

18 of the 21 tasks show no AI use at work in the data.

  • Administer employee insurance, pension, and savings plans, working with insurance brokers and plan carriers.Core task
  • Advise managers and employees on state and federal employment regulations, collective agreements, benefit and compensation policies, personnel procedures, and classification programs.Core task
  • Assist in preparing and maintaining personnel records and handbooks.Core task
  • Ensure company compliance with federal and state laws, including reporting requirements.Core task
  • Research employee benefit and health and safety practices, and recommend changes or modifications to existing policies.Core task
  • Advise staff of individuals' qualifications.
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  • Assess need for and develop job analysis instruments and materials.
  • Consult with, or serve as, technical liaison between business, industry, government, and union officials.
  • Develop, implement, administer, and evaluate personnel and labor relations programs, including performance appraisal, affirmative action, and employment equity programs.
  • Evaluate job positions, determining classification, exempt or non-exempt status, and salary.
  • Negotiate collective agreements on behalf of employers or workers, and mediate labor disputes and grievances.
  • Observe, interview, and survey employees and conduct focus group meetings to collect job, organizational, and occupational information.
  • Perform multifactor data and cost analyses that may be used in areas such as support of collective bargaining agreements.
  • Plan, develop, evaluate, improve, and communicate methods and techniques for selecting, promoting, compensating, evaluating, and training workers.
  • Prepare occupational classifications, job descriptions, and salary scales.
  • Prepare reports, such as organization and flow charts and career path reports, to summarize job analysis and evaluation and compensation analysis information.
  • Provide advice on the resolution of classification and salary complaints.
  • Research job and worker requirements, structural and functional relationships among jobs and occupations, and occupational trends.

How that compares

Among the 29 business and financial operations occupations, compensation rank 21. The group averages 17.7%, and its most exposed job is Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists at 64.8%. The average US occupation sits at 7.7%.

All 756 occupations, ranked

Just above in the ranking

  1. 222Medical and Health Services Managers 6.6%
  2. 222Occupational Therapy Aides 6.6%
  3. 222Self-Enrichment Teachers 6.6%

Just below

  1. 228Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors 6.4%
  2. 228Education Administrators, Postsecondary 6.4%
  3. 230Broadcast Announcers and Radio Disc Jockeys 6.3%

What this does and does not mean

Exposure is observed use, not a forecast. Anthropic maps work conversations with Claude onto the tasks O*NET lists for each job and asks, of the tasks AI could speed up, which are actually being used for at work. A use that does the task outright counts in full and a use that assists a person counts half. The task scores are averaged into the occupation figure by the share of time spent on each task.

A high figure means AI is already part of how this work gets done. It does not mean anyone has been replaced. Anthropic's own reading of the labour market finds no systematic rise in unemployment among exposed workers so far, and about 14% fewer 22 to 25 year olds starting exposed jobs.No measurable rise in unemployment among exposed workers so far, and about 14% fewer 22 to 25 year olds starting these jobs. Gap years for everyone. Labor market impacts, 5 March 2026.

Task list and titles from O*NET 31.0 by the US Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, used under the CC BY 4.0 licence. Scores from the Anthropic Economic Index (CC BY). Checked 1 November 2026. How the ranking works.