Nonmetro area, Alabama
Northwest Alabama nonmetropolitan area
67,570 people work in this area, at mean pay of $48,440 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: 26 million hours at what they cost. Not a forecast of savings.
- 28%
- 16%
- 56%
of the paid hours are within reach now in tasks people already bring to Claude. Another 16% 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: 20%.
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 60% of the people.
| People | Pay here | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive | 1,440 | 43% | 1.3 million | $39K |
| Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks | 610 | 78% | 984,590 | $43K |
| Team Assemblers | 4,500 | 10% | 973,440 | $42K |
| Customer Service Representatives | 630 | 64% | 843,898 | $38K |
| Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants | 490 | 81% | 822,495 | $36K |
| First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers | 1,160 | 32% | 769,686 | $62K |
| Registered Nurses | 1,330 | 28% | 769,061 | $65K |
| Cashiers | 1,860 | 19% | 715,728 | $26K |
| Retail Salespersons | 1,690 | 19% | 681,949 | $29K |
| Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education | 930 | 32% | 620,944 | $61K |
| Stockers and Order Fillers | 1,520 | 19% | 600,704 | $31K |
| First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers | 960 | 28% | 563,101 | $37K |
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. 210 smaller jobs (25,070 people) count in every total but are not listed. Task data covers 92% 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 Assemblers397,940 hours50% of the task within reach
- Complete production reports to communicate team production level to management.Team Assemblers321,142 hours100% of the task within reach
- Coordinate conferences, meetings, or special events, such as luncheons or graduation ceremonies.Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive315,380 hours53% of the task within reach
- Use computers for various applications, such as database management or word processing.Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive287,623 hours100% of the task within reach
- Determine work assignments and procedures.Team Assemblers287,446 hours50% of the task within reach
- Keep periodic balance sheets of amounts and numbers of transactions.Cashiers273,485 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 Workers272,165 hours100% of the task within reach
- Plan and develop new products and production processes.First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers242,818 hours67% of the task within reach
- Set up and manage paper or electronic filing systems, recording information, updating paperwork, or maintaining documents, such as attendance records, correspondence, or other material.Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive231,812 hours70% 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 Nurses222,838 hours60% of the task within reach
Other areas in Alabama
Within reach now and by the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Birmingham, AL520,290 people22% now, 36% by 2028
- Huntsville, AL266,650 people21% now, 40% by 2028
- Mobile, AL172,550 people22% now, 34% by 2028
- Montgomery, AL165,550 people22% now, 35% by 2028
- Northeast Alabama nonmetropolitan area152,620 people19% now, 28% by 2028
- Tuscaloosa, AL108,460 people20% now, 31% by 2028
- Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL87,120 people21% now, 30% by 2028
- Southeast Alabama nonmetropolitan area83,750 people20% now, 30% 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