Metro area, Michigan
Battle Creek, MI
54,600 people work in this area, at mean pay of $60,400 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: 21 million hours at what they cost. Not a forecast of savings.
- 35%
- 18%
- 48%
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 56% of the people.
| People | Pay here | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Office Clerks, General | 990 | 54% | 1.1 million | $46K |
| Registered Nurses | 1,480 | 28% | 855,797 | $98K |
| Customer Service Representatives | 620 | 64% | 830,502 | $41K |
| Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants | 390 | 81% | 654,639 | $40K |
| Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks | 370 | 78% | 597,210 | $48K |
| Team Assemblers | 2,710 | 10% | 586,227 | $49K |
| Cashiers | 1,390 | 19% | 534,872 | $30K |
| Retail Salespersons | 1,130 | 19% | 455,978 | $32K |
| First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers | 530 | 40% | 445,370 | $37K |
| General and Operations Managers | 920 | 23% | 436,304 | $98K |
| First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers | 630 | 32% | 418,019 | $68K |
| Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive | 450 | 43% | 398,737 | $44K |
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. 217 smaller jobs (20,980 people) count in every total but are not listed. Task data covers 88% 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.
- Perform administrative or managerial functions, such as taking responsibility for a unit's staff, budget, planning, or long-range goals.Registered Nurses247,970 hours60% of the task within reach
- Compute, record, and proofread data and other information, such as records or reports.Office Clerks, General247,969 hours100% of the task within reach
- Review work orders and blueprints to ensure work is performed according to specifications.Team Assemblers239,649 hours50% of the task within reach
- Keep periodic balance sheets of amounts and numbers of transactions.Cashiers204,379 hours100% of the task within reach
- Complete production reports to communicate team production level to management.Team Assemblers193,399 hours100% of the task within reach
- Develop and implement records management program for filing, protection, and retrieval of records, and assure compliance with program.Management Analysts189,508 hours76% of the task within reach
- Determine work assignments and procedures.Team Assemblers173,106 hours50% of the task within reach
- Maintain accurate, detailed reports and records.Registered Nurses169,743 hours100% of the task within reach
- Analyze data gathered and develop solutions or alternative methods of proceeding.Management Analysts162,023 hours98% of the task within reach
- Perform bookkeeping duties, such as credits or collections, preparing and sending financial statements or bills, and keeping financial records.Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants156,221 hours100% of the task within reach
Other areas in Michigan
Within reach now and by the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI1,904,530 people22% now, 37% by 2028
- Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI598,260 people21% now, 34% by 2028
- Ann Arbor, MI219,730 people24% now, 40% by 2028
- Lansing-East Lansing, MI217,180 people23% now, 39% by 2028
- Mid Michigan nonmetropolitan area152,580 people21% now, 32% by 2028
- Flint, MI135,040 people22% now, 32% by 2028
- Southern Michigan nonmetropolitan area134,800 people20% now, 31% by 2028
- Kalamazoo-Portage, MI121,790 people23% now, 35% by 2028
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