Metro area, Texas
Laredo, TX
109,370 people work in this area, at mean pay of $48,200 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.
- 34%
- 20%
- 47%
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, 21%. 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 66% of the people.
| People | Pay here | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Office Clerks, General | 2,450 | 54% | 2.8 million | $31K |
| Customer Service Representatives | 2,060 | 64% | 2.8 million | $34K |
| Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks | 1,070 | 78% | 1.7 million | $40K |
| Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers | 5,460 | 14% | 1.6 million | $49K |
| Dispatchers, Except Police, Fire, and Ambulance | 910 | 80% | 1.5 million | $38K |
| General and Operations Managers | 2,780 | 23% | 1.3 million | $79K |
| Retail Salespersons | 3,240 | 19% | 1.3 million | $28K |
| Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks | 1,110 | 53% | 1.2 million | $33K |
| First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers | 1,660 | 35% | 1.2 million | $56K |
| Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive | 1,310 | 43% | 1.2 million | $37K |
| Compliance Officers | 1,440 | 37% | 1.1 million | $98K |
| Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education | 1,710 | 30% | 1.1 million | $61K |
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. 242 smaller jobs (34,570 people) count in every total but are not listed. Task data covers 93% 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
- Prepare reports that detail investigation findings.Detectives and Criminal Investigators668,079 hours100% of the task within reach
- Compute, record, and proofread data and other information, such as records or reports.Office Clerks, General613,660 hours100% of the task within reach
- Prepare daily work and run schedules.Dispatchers, Except Police, Fire, and Ambulance557,693 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 Representatives466,229 hours100% of the task within reach
- Maintain logs of working hours or of vehicle service or repair status, following applicable state and federal regulations.Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers465,061 hours100% of the task within reach
- Complete contract forms, prepare change of address records, or issue service discontinuance orders, using computers.Customer Service Representatives430,023 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 Travel418,611 hours100% of the task within reach
- Maintain knowledge of current sales and promotions, policies regarding payment and exchanges, and security practices.Retail Salespersons392,592 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
Other areas in Texas
Within reach now and by the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX4,049,800 people23% now, 39% by 2028
- Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX3,289,720 people22% now, 36% by 2028
- Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX1,293,690 people23% now, 42% by 2028
- San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX1,126,880 people23% now, 37% by 2028
- El Paso, TX339,120 people24% now, 35% by 2028
- McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX296,700 people22% now, 31% by 2028
- North Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area275,670 people21% now, 31% by 2028
- Hill Country Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area200,870 people22% now, 32% 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