Metro area, Georgia
Dalton, GA
65,300 people work in this area, at mean pay of $53,820 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: 25 million hours at what they cost. Not a forecast of savings.
- 32%
- 15%
- 53%
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 64% of the people.
| People | Pay here | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Customer Service Representatives | 1,080 | 64% | 1.4 million | $40K |
| Office Clerks, General | 1,030 | 54% | 1.2 million | $39K |
| Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks | 790 | 53% | 869,253 | $39K |
| Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks | 530 | 78% | 855,463 | $46K |
| First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers | 1,120 | 32% | 743,145 | $59K |
| Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants | 430 | 81% | 721,781 | $36K |
| Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education | 1,120 | 30% | 694,222 | $63K |
| Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks | 450 | 63% | 593,426 | $48K |
| Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products | 790 | 36% | 588,267 | $66K |
| Registered Nurses | 1,000 | 28% | 578,241 | $83K |
| General and Operations Managers | 1,170 | 23% | 554,864 | $94K |
| Retail Salespersons | 1,360 | 19% | 548,787 | $29K |
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. 218 smaller jobs (21,070 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.
- Record numbers of units handled or moved, using daily production sheets or work tickets.Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand344,014 hours100% of the task within reach
- Plan and establish work schedules, assignments, and production sequences to meet production goals.First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers262,780 hours100% of the task within reach
- Compute, record, and proofread data and other information, such as records or reports.Office Clerks, General257,988 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 Representatives244,431 hours100% of the task within reach
- Plan and develop new products and production processes.First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers234,445 hours67% of the task within reach
- Study guides, samples, charts, and specification sheets, or confer with supervisors or engineering staff to determine setup requirements.Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders227,602 hours100% of the task within reach
- Complete contract forms, prepare change of address records, or issue service discontinuance orders, using computers.Customer Service Representatives225,449 hours100% of the task within reach
- Prepare documents, such as work orders, bills of lading, or shipping orders, to route materials.Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks210,593 hours100% of the task within reach
- Keep periodic balance sheets of amounts and numbers of transactions.Cashiers198,498 hours100% of the task within reach
- Monitor market conditions, product innovations, and competitors' products, prices, and sales.Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products179,519 hours100% of the task within reach
Other areas in Georgia
Within reach now and by the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA2,889,670 people23% now, 39% by 2028
- Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC231,930 people22% now, 35% by 2028
- Savannah, GA198,360 people22% now, 34% by 2028
- South Georgia nonmetropolitan area192,170 people21% now, 31% by 2028
- North Georgia nonmetropolitan area187,640 people20% now, 28% by 2028
- Middle Georgia nonmetropolitan area138,760 people21% now, 31% by 2028
- Columbus, GA-AL116,380 people23% now, 36% by 2028
- Gainesville, GA103,870 people21% now, 31% 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