Metro area, Vermont
Burlington-South Burlington, VT
120,150 people work in this area, at mean pay of $74,360 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: 50 million hours at what they cost. Not a forecast of savings.
- 40%
- 17%
- 43%
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 47% of the people.
| People | Pay here | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Office Clerks, General | 1,720 | 54% | 1.9 million | $50K |
| Registered Nurses | 3,150 | 28% | 1.8 million | $98K |
| Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants | 1,080 | 81% | 1.8 million | $50K |
| Customer Service Representatives | 1,250 | 64% | 1.7 million | $50K |
| Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks | 1,020 | 78% | 1.6 million | $57K |
| Retail Salespersons | 3,550 | 19% | 1.4 million | $37K |
| General and Operations Managers | 2,930 | 23% | 1.4 million | $98K |
| Compliance Officers | 1,440 | 37% | 1.1 million | $93K |
| Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive | 1,200 | 43% | 1.1 million | $50K |
| Cashiers | 2,590 | 19% | 996,632 | $37K |
| Stockers and Order Fillers | 2,230 | 19% | 881,296 | $38K |
| Computer User Support Specialists | 950 | 42% | 827,946 | $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. 379 smaller jobs (56,900 people) count in every total but are not listed. Task data covers 89% 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.
- Verify that all firm and regulatory policies and procedures have been documented, implemented, and communicated.Compliance Officers843,243 hours94% 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 Nurses527,774 hours60% 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 Assistants432,612 hours100% of the task within reach
- Compute, record, and proofread data and other information, such as records or reports.Office Clerks, General430,815 hours100% of the task within reach
- Maintain knowledge of current sales and promotions, policies regarding payment and exchanges, and security practices.Retail Salespersons430,155 hours50% of the task within reach
- Provide assistance to internal or external auditors in compliance reviews.Compliance Officers389,360 hours100% of the task within reach
- Evaluate applications, records, or documents to gather information about eligibility or liability issues.Compliance Officers381,348 hours100% of the task within reach
- Keep periodic balance sheets of amounts and numbers of transactions.Cashiers380,821 hours100% of the task within reach
- Direct and coordinate activities of businesses or departments concerned with the production, pricing, sales, or distribution of products.General and Operations Managers374,658 hours40% of the task within reach
- Maintain accurate, detailed reports and records.Registered Nurses361,277 hours100% of the task within reach
Other areas in Vermont
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