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Metro area, Ohio

Youngstown-Warren, OH

160,160 people work in this area, at mean pay of $54,140 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
21%

of the paid hours. Estimate.

$2.5B

a year: 68 million hours at what they cost. Not a forecast of savings.

Kinds of work
  • 32%
  • 18%
  • 50%
4%

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

0%25%50%75%100%2027202820292030NowDesk work: 32% 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, 19%. Today's estimate: 21%.

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: 10% within reachClaude Opus 4.5, November 2025: 10% within reachGPT-5.2, December 2025: 12% within reachClaude Opus 4.6, February 2026: 12% within reachClaude Mythos Preview (early), April 2026: 19% within reachToday (estimate), September 2026: 21% 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 55% of the people.

PeoplePay here
Office Clerks, General2,78054%3.1 million$40K
Customer Service Representatives2,14064%2.9 million$38K
Registered Nurses4,09028%2.4 million$79K
General and Operations Managers4,48023%2.1 million$80K
Retail Salespersons4,87019%2 million$29K
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks1,13078%1.8 million$47K
Cashiers4,29019%1.7 million$28K
Stockers and Order Fillers3,89019%1.5 million$34K
Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive1,68043%1.5 million$42K
First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers1,75040%1.5 million$35K
Receptionists and Information Clerks99059%1.2 million$34K
Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education1,78030%1.1 million$73K

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. 361 smaller jobs (68,600 people) count in every total but are not listed. Task data covers 95% 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. Compute, record, and proofread data and other information, such as records or reports.Office Clerks, General
    696,317 hours100% of the task within reach
  2. Perform administrative or managerial functions, such as taking responsibility for a unit's staff, budget, planning, or long-range goals.Registered Nurses
    685,269 hours60% of the task within reach
  3. Keep periodic balance sheets of amounts and numbers of transactions.Cashiers
    630,781 hours100% of the task within reach
  4. Maintain knowledge of current sales and promotions, policies regarding payment and exchanges, and security practices.Retail Salespersons
    590,100 hours50% of the task within reach
  5. Direct and coordinate activities of businesses or departments concerned with the production, pricing, sales, or distribution of products.General and Operations Managers
    572,856 hours40% of the task within reach
  6. Record numbers of units handled or moved, using daily production sheets or work tickets.Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand
    562,678 hours100% of the task within reach
  7. Set prices or credit terms for goods or services, based on forecasts of customer demand.General and Operations Managers
    547,662 hours100% of the task within reach
  8. Prepare staff work schedules and assign specific duties.General and Operations Managers
    516,014 hours80% of the task within reach
  9. 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
    484,335 hours100% of the task within reach
  10. Establish or implement departmental policies, goals, objectives, or procedures in conjunction with board members, organization officials, or staff members.General and Operations Managers
    478,136 hours59% of the task within reach

Other areas in Ohio

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