Metro area, Indiana
Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN
102,200 people work in this area, at mean pay of $60,210 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: 39 million hours at what they cost. Not a forecast of savings.
- 33%
- 18%
- 49%
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, 18%. 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 | 2,040 | 54% | 2.3 million | $43K |
| Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks | 930 | 78% | 1.5 million | $48K |
| Team Assemblers | 6,280 | 10% | 1.4 million | $63K |
| Customer Service Representatives | 900 | 64% | 1.2 million | $41K |
| Registered Nurses | 2,080 | 28% | 1.2 million | $81K |
| Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive | 1,310 | 43% | 1.2 million | $47K |
| First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers | 1,720 | 32% | 1.1 million | $75K |
| Retail Salespersons | 2,650 | 19% | 1.1 million | $31K |
| Cashiers | 1,910 | 19% | 734,968 | $30K |
| First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers | 790 | 40% | 663,854 | $45K |
| Stockers and Order Fillers | 1,580 | 19% | 624,416 | $34K |
| Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks | 530 | 53% | 583,170 | $47K |
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. 293 smaller jobs (39,695 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.
- Review work orders and blueprints to ensure work is performed according to specifications.Team Assemblers555,348 hours50% of the task within reach
- Compute, record, and proofread data and other information, such as records or reports.Office Clerks, General510,966 hours100% of the task within reach
- Complete production reports to communicate team production level to management.Team Assemblers448,171 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 Workers403,555 hours100% of the task within reach
- Determine work assignments and procedures.Team Assemblers401,146 hours50% of the task within reach
- Plan and develop new products and production processes.First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers360,040 hours67% 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 Nurses348,498 hours60% 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, Hand344,014 hours100% of the task within reach
- Maintain knowledge of current sales and promotions, policies regarding payment and exchanges, and security practices.Retail Salespersons321,102 hours50% of the task within reach
- Operate computers programmed with accounting software to record, store, and analyze information.Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks302,443 hours100% of the task within reach
Other areas in Indiana
Within reach now and by the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN1,105,170 people22% now, 35% by 2028
- Fort Wayne, IN225,520 people22% now, 33% by 2028
- Northern Indiana nonmetropolitan area210,320 people20% now, 29% by 2028
- Southern Indiana nonmetropolitan area196,540 people20% now, 29% by 2028
- Central Indiana nonmetropolitan area161,570 people21% now, 29% by 2028
- Evansville, IN135,250 people22% now, 33% by 2028
- South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI131,670 people22% now, 34% by 2028
- Elkhart-Goshen, IN127,730 people20% now, 29% 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