State
Georgia
4,889,170 people work in Georgia, at mean pay of $65,920 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: 2.4 billion hours at what they cost. Not a forecast of savings.
- 41%
- 8%
- 52%
of the paid hours are within reach now in tasks people already bring to Claude. Another 19% is within reach in tasks not yet seen there.
Across the US: 24% within reach now and 39% 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, 22%. Today's estimate: 24%.
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 48% of the people.
| People | Pay here | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Customer Service Representatives | 97,850 | 67% | 135 million | $40K |
| Office Clerks, General | 75,390 | 58% | 91 million | $41K |
| Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants | 39,380 | 87% | 71 million | $43K |
| Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel | 46,960 | 69% | 67 million | $75K |
| Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks | 38,700 | 76% | 61 million | $49K |
| Cashiers | 97,540 | 30% | 61 million | $29K |
| Retail Salespersons | 143,120 | 20% | 59 million | $31K |
| First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers | 48,420 | 48% | 48 million | $39K |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | 145,030 | 15% | 46 million | $27K |
| Receptionists and Information Clerks | 26,080 | 83% | 45 million | $36K |
| Registered Nurses | 100,950 | 21% | 44 million | $94K |
| General and Operations Managers | 111,060 | 19% | 43 million | $104K |
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. 705 smaller jobs (2,458,530 people) count in every total but are not listed. Task data covers 97% 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 personnel activities, such as supervising and training employees.Fast Food and Counter Workers43 million hours100% of the task within reach
- Maintain knowledge of current sales and promotions, policies regarding payment and exchanges, and security practices.Retail Salespersons35 million 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 Nurses28 million 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 Representatives22 million hours100% of the task within reach
- Contact customers to respond to inquiries or to notify them of claim investigation results or any planned adjustments.Customer Service Representatives21 million hours100% of the task within reach
- Complete contract forms, prepare change of address records, or issue service discontinuance orders, using computers.Customer Service Representatives20 million 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 Travel20 million hours100% of the task within reach
- Establish or implement departmental policies, goals, objectives, or procedures in conjunction with board members, organization officials, or staff members.General and Operations Managers20 million hours99% of the task within reach
- Check to ensure that appropriate changes were made to resolve customers' problems.Customer Service Representatives20 million hours100% of the task within reach
- Record numbers of units handled or moved, using daily production sheets or work tickets.Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand19 million hours100% of the task within reach
Metro and nonmetro 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 people25% now, 41% by 2028
- Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC231,930 people24% now, 37% by 2028
- Savannah, GA198,360 people24% now, 36% by 2028
- South Georgia nonmetropolitan area192,170 people23% now, 33% by 2028
- North Georgia nonmetropolitan area187,640 people22% now, 30% by 2028
- Middle Georgia nonmetropolitan area138,760 people23% now, 33% by 2028
- Columbus, GA-AL116,380 people25% now, 38% by 2028
- Gainesville, GA103,870 people23% now, 33% by 2028
- Athens-Clarke County, GA95,800 people25% now, 37% by 2028
- Macon-Bibb County, GA95,030 people25% now, 37% by 2028
- East Georgia nonmetropolitan area88,380 people23% now, 33% by 2028
- Warner Robins, GA76,050 people22% now, 39% by 2028
- Dalton, GA65,300 people23% now, 33% by 2028
- Albany, GA58,390 people25% now, 37% by 2028
- Valdosta, GA53,890 people24% now, 34% by 2028
- Brunswick-St. Simons, GA46,860 people24% now, 35% by 2028
- Rome, GA44,900 people25% now, 35% by 2028
- Hinesville, GA20,330 people24% now, 36% 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