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Metro area, Georgia

Savannah, GA

198,360 people work in this area, at mean pay of $58,750 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
22%

of the paid hours. Estimate.

$3.1B

a year: 82 million hours at what they cost. Not a forecast of savings.

Kinds of work
  • 35%
  • 17%
  • 49%
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: 22%.

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: 7% 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: 22% 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
Customer Service Representatives3,29064%4.4 million$37K
Office Clerks, General2,86054%3.2 million$41K
Retail Salespersons6,82019%2.8 million$30K
Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants1,48081%2.5 million$39K
Registered Nurses4,20028%2.4 million$87K
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks1,35078%2.2 million$50K
General and Operations Managers3,87023%1.8 million$84K
First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers2,18040%1.8 million$44K
Cashiers4,47019%1.7 million$29K
Receptionists and Information Clerks1,29059%1.6 million$34K
Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks1,33053%1.5 million$45K
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand7,8109%1.5 million$38K

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. 383 smaller jobs (81,780 people) count in every total but are not listed. Task data covers 90% 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. Record numbers of units handled or moved, using daily production sheets or work tickets.Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand
    1.1 million hours100% of the task within reach
  2. Maintain knowledge of current sales and promotions, policies regarding payment and exchanges, and security practices.Retail Salespersons
    826,382 hours50% of the task within reach
  3. 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 Representatives
    744,609 hours100% of the task within reach
  4. Compute, record, and proofread data and other information, such as records or reports.Office Clerks, General
    716,354 hours100% of the task within reach
  5. Perform administrative or managerial functions, such as taking responsibility for a unit's staff, budget, planning, or long-range goals.Registered Nurses
    703,699 hours60% of the task within reach
  6. Complete contract forms, prepare change of address records, or issue service discontinuance orders, using computers.Customer Service Representatives
    686,784 hours100% of the task within reach
  7. Keep periodic balance sheets of amounts and numbers of transactions.Cashiers
    657,247 hours100% of the task within reach
  8. Perform bookkeeping duties, such as credits or collections, preparing and sending financial statements or bills, and keeping financial records.Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants
    592,838 hours100% of the task within reach
  9. Develop sales presentations or proposals to explain service specifications.Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel
    546,757 hours100% of the task within reach
  10. Check to ensure that appropriate changes were made to resolve customers' problems.Customer Service Representatives
    529,554 hours80% of the task within reach

Other areas in Georgia

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