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Nonmetro area, New Hampshire

Northern New Hampshire nonmetropolitan area

84,300 people work in this area, at mean pay of $68,610 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.

now
23%

of the paid hours. Estimate.

$1.6B

a year: 36 million hours at what they cost. Not a forecast of savings.

Kinds of work
  • 35%
  • 18%
  • 47%
4%

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

0%25%50%75%100%2027202820292030NowDesk work: 35% of the time
Chosen to Ceiling: the share
DateNow
NowEnd of 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%.

0%10%20%30%2023202420252026GPT-4, March 2023: 0% within reachGPT-4 Turbo (Nov 2023), November 2023: 0% within reachGPT-4o, May 2024: 0% within reachClaude 3.5 Sonnet (June 2024), June 2024: 0% within reacho1-preview, September 2024: 0% within reachClaude 3.5 Sonnet (Oct 2024), October 2024: 0% within reacho1, December 2024: 1% within reachClaude 3.7 Sonnet, February 2025: 2% within reacho3, April 2025: 6% within reachGPT-5, August 2025: 8% within reachGemini 3 Pro, November 2025: 11% within reachClaude Opus 4.5, November 2025: 11% within reachGPT-5.2, December 2025: 12% within reachClaude Opus 4.6, February 2026: 13% within reachClaude Mythos Preview (early), April 2026: 20% within reachToday (estimate), September 2026: 23% within reach
Each step is a new best model measured by METR, four in five; the dashed end is today's estimate. Point at a dot for the model.

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 54% of the people.

PeoplePay here
Registered Nurses3,07028%1.8 million$105K
Office Clerks, General1,44054%1.6 million$48K
Customer Service Representatives1,06064%1.4 million$42K
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks81078%1.3 million$51K
Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants76081%1.3 million$49K
Retail Salespersons3,05019%1.2 million$36K
Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive1,37043%1.2 million$49K
General and Operations Managers2,03023%962,713$102K
Cashiers2,19019%842,712$33K
Stockers and Order Fillers1,75019%691,600$36K
Receptionists and Information Clerks50059%611,520$36K
First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers67040%563,015$52K

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. 311 smaller jobs (34,870 people) count in every total but are not listed. Task data covers 91% 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.

  1. Perform administrative or managerial functions, such as taking responsibility for a unit's staff, budget, planning, or long-range goals.Registered Nurses
    514,370 hours60% of the task within reach
  2. Maintain knowledge of current sales and promotions, policies regarding payment and exchanges, and security practices.Retail Salespersons
    369,570 hours50% of the task within reach
  3. Compute, record, and proofread data and other information, such as records or reports.Office Clerks, General
    360,682 hours100% of the task within reach
  4. Maintain accurate, detailed reports and records.Registered Nurses
    352,102 hours100% of the task within reach
  5. Keep periodic balance sheets of amounts and numbers of transactions.Cashiers
    322,007 hours100% of the task within reach
  6. Perform bookkeeping duties, such as credits or collections, preparing and sending financial statements or bills, and keeping financial records.Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants
    304,430 hours100% of the task within reach
  7. Coordinate conferences, meetings, or special events, such as luncheons or graduation ceremonies.Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive
    300,049 hours53% of the task within reach
  8. Use computers for various applications, such as database management or word processing.Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive
    273,641 hours100% of the task within reach
  9. Operate computers programmed with accounting software to record, store, and analyze information.Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks
    263,418 hours100% of the task within reach
  10. Direct and coordinate activities of businesses or departments concerned with the production, pricing, sales, or distribution of products.General and Operations Managers
    259,575 hours40% of the task within reach

Other areas in New Hampshire

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