Metro area, Illinois
Bloomington, IL
88,110 people work in this area, at mean pay of $70,010 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: 35 million hours at what they cost. Not a forecast of savings.
- 41%
- 18%
- 41%
of the paid hours are within reach now in tasks people already bring to Claude. Another 18% 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, 20%. Today's estimate: 23%.
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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks | 890 | 98% | 1.8 million | $46K |
| Customer Service Representatives | 1,280 | 64% | 1.7 million | $39K |
| Office Clerks, General | 1,280 | 54% | 1.4 million | $41K |
| Registered Nurses | 1,990 | 28% | 1.2 million | $80K |
| Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks | 590 | 78% | 952,308 | $45K |
| General and Operations Managers | 1,900 | 23% | 901,062 | $93K |
| Insurance Sales Agents | 780 | 52% | 840,406 | $82K |
| Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive | 930 | 43% | 824,056 | $52K |
| Retail Salespersons | 1,910 | 19% | 770,723 | $32K |
| Cashiers | 1,980 | 19% | 761,904 | $31K |
| Receptionists and Information Clerks | 520 | 59% | 635,981 | $35K |
| First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers | 700 | 40% | 588,225 | $37K |
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. 255 smaller jobs (32,410 people) count in every total but are not listed. Task data covers 81% 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.
- Evaluate financial reporting systems, accounting or collection procedures, or investment activities and make recommendations for changes to procedures, operating systems, budgets, or other financial control functions.Financial Managers533,409 hours94% of the task within reach
- Modify existing software to correct errors, adapt it to new hardware, or upgrade interfaces and improve performance.Software Developers438,430 hours100% of the task within reach
- Develop or analyze information to assess the current or future financial status of firms.Financial Managers434,786 hours96% of the task within reach
- Prepare financial or regulatory reports required by laws, regulations, or boards of directors.Financial Managers372,162 hours96% 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 Nurses333,419 hours60% of the task within reach
- Compute, record, and proofread data and other information, such as records or reports.Office Clerks, General320,606 hours100% of the task within reach
- Analyze user needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints.Software Developers303,421 hours70% of the task within reach
- Keep periodic balance sheets of amounts and numbers of transactions.Cashiers291,130 hours100% of the task within reach
- Obtain and examine all relevant information to assess validity of complaints and to determine possible causes, such as extreme weather conditions that could increase utility bills.Customer Service Representatives289,696 hours100% of the task within reach
- Develop or direct software system testing or validation procedures, programming, or documentation.Software Developers282,874 hours79% of the task within reach
Other areas in Illinois
Within reach now and by the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN4,513,280 people22% now, 37% by 2028
- West Central Illinois nonmetropolitan area169,470 people21% now, 31% by 2028
- Peoria, IL166,020 people22% now, 36% by 2028
- East Central Illinois nonmetropolitan area143,050 people21% now, 31% by 2028
- South Illinois nonmetropolitan area141,200 people22% now, 32% by 2028
- Rockford, IL137,650 people21% now, 32% by 2028
- Northwest Illinois nonmetropolitan area126,860 people21% now, 30% by 2028
- Champaign-Urbana, IL105,500 people22% 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