Nonmetro area, Alaska

Alaska nonmetropolitan area

108,770 people work in this area, at mean pay of $74,140 a year (BLS, May 2025), in every industry. What follows is how much of their working time the best AI models could finish, when, and in which jobs and tasks. Estimates.

now

21%

of the paid hours. Estimate.

$2.1B

a year: 44 million hours at what they cost. Not a forecast of savings.

Kinds of work

of the paid hours are within reach now in tasks people already bring to Claude. Another 17% is within reach in tasks not yet seen there.

Across the US: 22% within reach now and 37% by the end of 2028, on the long-run pace at four in five.

Share of the paid hours within reach, now to 2030

Chosen to Ceiling: the share

DateNow

NowEnd of 2030

What each choice means: , , , , . Every pace starts from .

How far this has come

With GPT-4, measured in March 2023, 0% of this area's paid hours were within reach at . With Claude 3.7 Sonnet, measured in February 2025, 1%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 19%. Today's estimate: 21%.

Each step is a new best model measured by METR, four in five; the dashed end is today's estimate. Point at a dot for the model.

A backcast: today's task data with the best model METR had measured by each date. It shows how fast the models have moved, not what anyone forecast at the time.

Where the hours are

Jobs by hours within reach now. The 40 largest jobs hold 51% of the people.

	People			Pay here
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks	1,740	78%	2.8 million	$58K
Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive	2,110	43%	1.9 million	$49K
First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers	2,000	35%	1.4 million	$69K
Office Clerks, General	1,050	54%	1.2 million	$50K
Registered Nurses	1,840	28%	1.1 million	$108K
Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education	1,490	32%	994,845	$79K
General and Operations Managers	2,020	23%	957,971	$111K
Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education	1,480	30%	917,364	$79K
Cashiers	2,250	19%	865,800	$36K
Retail Salespersons	2,120	19%	855,463	$36K
Stockers and Order Fillers	1,850	19%	731,120	$40K
First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers	1,100	27%	610,897	$111K

People: BLS counts for this area, May 2025. Pay here: the median paid for the job in this area, else its mean, else the national median. 322 smaller jobs (48,400 people) count in every total but are not listed. Task data covers 90% of the area's people; the rest are in BLS "all other" groups with no task list, or in counts BLS does not publish.

The tasks with the most hours within reach by the end of 2028

Across the whole area, on the chosen pace and reliability.

Operate computers programmed with accounting software to record, store, and analyze information.Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks
565,862 hours100% of the task within reach
Coordinate conferences, meetings, or special events, such as luncheons or graduation ceremonies.Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive
462,120 hours53% of the task within reach
Use computers for various applications, such as database management or word processing.Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive
421,447 hours100% of the task within reach
Design new equipment to aid in the repair or maintenance of machines, mechanical equipment, or building structures.Maintenance and Repair Workers, General
380,443 hours70% of the task within reach
Research, compile, and prepare reports, manuals, correspondence, or other information required by management or governmental agencies.First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers
351,250 hours100% of the task within reach
Set up and manage paper or electronic filing systems, recording information, updating paperwork, or maintaining documents, such as attendance records, correspondence, or other material.Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive
339,669 hours70% of the task within reach
Keep periodic balance sheets of amounts and numbers of transactions.Cashiers
330,829 hours100% of the task within reach
Perform administrative or managerial functions, such as taking responsibility for a unit's staff, budget, planning, or long-range goals.Registered Nurses
308,287 hours60% of the task within reach
Develop or implement electronic maintenance programs or computer information management systems.First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers
302,537 hours96% of the task within reach
Design, implement, or evaluate staff training and development programs, customer service initiatives, or performance measurement criteria.First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers
297,093 hours69% of the task within reach

Other areas in Alaska

Within reach now and by the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.

How it is built: BLS counts the people in each job in this area; each job's tasks and their lengths give its share within reach at a date; the area's share is those shares weighted by people. Value is pay times 1.43 for benefits and payroll costs. Seen in Claude use splits today's share by whether Anthropic saw people bring each task to Claude in 2025; other AI tools are not counted. How it works