Metro area, California
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA
1,716,760 people work in this area, at mean pay of $65,160 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: 708 million hours at what they cost. Not a forecast of savings.
- 31%
- 17%
- 53%
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: 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 55% of the people.
| People | Pay here | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Office Clerks, General | 27,620 | 54% | 31 million | $46K |
| Stockers and Order Fillers | 77,160 | 19% | 30 million | $43K |
| Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks | 12,710 | 78% | 21 million | $56K |
| Registered Nurses | 35,290 | 28% | 20 million | $134K |
| Customer Service Representatives | 15,180 | 64% | 20 million | $47K |
| Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants | 10,530 | 81% | 18 million | $50K |
| Retail Salespersons | 41,270 | 19% | 17 million | $37K |
| Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks | 15,120 | 53% | 17 million | $45K |
| First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers | 17,380 | 40% | 15 million | $45K |
| Cashiers | 35,730 | 19% | 14 million | $36K |
| Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand | 69,820 | 9% | 13 million | $46K |
| Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive | 13,210 | 43% | 12 million | $53K |
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. 633 smaller jobs (747,560 people) count in every total but are not listed. Task data covers 97% 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.
- Record numbers of units handled or moved, using daily production sheets or work tickets.Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand9.7 million hours100% of the task within reach
- Compute, record, and proofread data and other information, such as records or reports.Office Clerks, General6.9 million 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 Nurses5.9 million hours60% of the task within reach
- Determine proper storage methods, identification, and stock location, based on turnover, environmental factors, and physical capabilities of facilities.Stockers and Order Fillers5.7 million hours80% of the task within reach
- Keep periodic balance sheets of amounts and numbers of transactions.Cashiers5.3 million hours100% of the task within reach
- Maintain knowledge of current sales and promotions, policies regarding payment and exchanges, and security practices.Retail Salespersons5 million hours50% of the task within reach
- Requisition merchandise from supplier, based on available space, merchandise on hand, customer demand, or advertised specials.Stockers and Order Fillers4.4 million hours100% of the task within reach
- Maintain records of patient care, condition, progress, or problems to report and discuss observations with supervisor or case manager.Home Health Aides4.3 million hours70% 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 Assistants4.2 million hours100% of the task within reach
- Write reports of daily activities and irregularities, such as equipment or property damage, theft, presence of unauthorized persons, or unusual occurrences.Security Guards4.2 million hours100% of the task within reach
Other areas in California
Within reach now and by the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA6,271,560 people22% now, 37% by 2028
- San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA2,373,920 people21% now, 41% by 2028
- San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA1,538,060 people22% now, 37% by 2028
- San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA1,134,970 people21% now, 44% by 2028
- Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA1,080,590 people22% now, 37% by 2028
- Fresno, CA476,890 people20% now, 30% by 2028
- Bakersfield-Delano, CA338,230 people19% now, 29% by 2028
- Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA323,890 people21% now, 35% 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