Metro area, Puerto Rico
Ponce, PR
63,500 people work in this area, at mean pay of $35,310 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.
- 33%
- 18%
- 49%
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, 20%. 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 65% of the people.
| People | Pay here | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Office Clerks, General | 1,560 | 54% | 1.8 million | $23K |
| Retail Salespersons | 3,580 | 19% | 1.4 million | $22K |
| Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive | 1,480 | 43% | 1.3 million | $24K |
| Customer Service Representatives | 900 | 64% | 1.2 million | $27K |
| Registered Nurses | 1,980 | 28% | 1.1 million | $39K |
| Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants | 650 | 81% | 1.1 million | $23K |
| Cashiers | 2,320 | 19% | 892,736 | $22K |
| First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers | 880 | 35% | 633,321 | $39K |
| Stockers and Order Fillers | 1,490 | 19% | 588,848 | $27K |
| First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers | 1,000 | 28% | 586,563 | $30K |
| Billing and Posting Clerks | 350 | 77% | 558,377 | $26K |
| Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks | 340 | 78% | 548,788 | $26K |
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. 204 smaller jobs (19,550 people) count in every total but are not listed. Task data covers 88% 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.
- Maintain knowledge of current sales and promotions, policies regarding payment and exchanges, and security practices.Retail Salespersons433,790 hours50% of the task within reach
- Compute, record, and proofread data and other information, such as records or reports.Office Clerks, General390,739 hours100% of the task within reach
- Keep periodic balance sheets of amounts and numbers of transactions.Cashiers341,122 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 Nurses331,744 hours60% 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 Executive324,141 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 Executive295,612 hours100% of the task within reach
- Perform bookkeeping duties, such as credits or collections, preparing and sending financial statements or bills, and keeping financial records.Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants260,368 hours100% of the task within reach
- Compile and maintain non-monetary reports and records.Cashiers243,065 hours100% 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 Executive238,251 hours70% of the task within reach
- Maintain records related to sales.Retail Salespersons231,062 hours100% of the task within reach
Other areas in Puerto Rico
Within reach now and by the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR690,810 people24% now, 37% by 2028
- Mayaguez, PR52,110 people23% now, 31% by 2028
- Aguadilla, PR48,810 people23% now, 34% by 2028
- Arecibo, PR34,720 people23% now, 31% by 2028
- Puerto Rico nonmetropolitan area29,460 people21% now, 28% by 2028
- Guayama, PR12,450 people23% 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