Metro area, New Jersey
Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ
168,700 people work in this area, at mean pay of $63,400 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.
of the paid hours. Estimate.
a year: 70 million hours at what they cost. Not a forecast of savings.
- 32%
- 18%
- 50%
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
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, 2%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 19%. Today's estimate: 21%.
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 55% of the people.
| People | Pay here | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Office Clerks, General | 2,860 | 54% | 3.2 million | $46K |
| Customer Service Representatives | 2,100 | 64% | 2.8 million | $44K |
| Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive | 2,530 | 43% | 2.2 million | $47K |
| Cashiers | 5,790 | 19% | 2.2 million | $34K |
| Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks | 1,290 | 78% | 2.1 million | $50K |
| Receptionists and Information Clerks | 1,630 | 59% | 2 million | $39K |
| Registered Nurses | 3,400 | 28% | 2 million | $99K |
| First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers | 2,080 | 40% | 1.7 million | $48K |
| First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers | 2,160 | 35% | 1.6 million | $65K |
| Retail Salespersons | 3,580 | 19% | 1.4 million | $35K |
| Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks | 1,280 | 54% | 1.4 million | $37K |
| Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel | 1,240 | 43% | 1.1 million | $65K |
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. 363 smaller jobs (71,355 people) count in every total but are not listed. Task data covers 95% 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.
- Keep periodic balance sheets of amounts and numbers of transactions.Cashiers851,334 hours100% of the task within reach
- Compute, record, and proofread data and other information, such as records or reports.Office Clerks, General716,354 hours100% of the task within reach
- Plan, organize, and control the operations of a cocktail lounge or bar.Bartenders694,484 hours50% of the task within reach
- Compile and maintain non-monetary reports and records.Cashiers606,616 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 Nurses569,661 hours60% 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 Executive554,106 hours53% of the task within reach
- Write reports of daily activities and irregularities, such as equipment or property damage, theft, presence of unauthorized persons, or unusual occurrences.Security Guards542,816 hours100% of the task within reach
- Develop sales presentations or proposals to explain service specifications.Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel529,671 hours100% 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 Executive505,337 hours100% of the task within reach
- Perform administrative support tasks, such as proofreading, transcribing handwritten information, or operating calculators or computers to work with pay records, invoices, balance sheets, or other documents.Receptionists and Information Clerks505,034 hours100% of the task within reach
Other areas in New Jersey
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