Industry group, 6113
Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
3,216,330 people work in this industry in the US, at mean pay of $85,740 a year (BLS, May 2025). 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: 1.5 billion hours at what they cost. Not a forecast of savings.
- 63%
- 16%
- 21%
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 industry's paid hours were within reach at . With Claude 3.7 Sonnet, measured in February 2025, 1%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 19%. 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 62% of the people.
| People | Pay here | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Office Clerks, General | 143,230 | 54% | 162 million | $40K |
| Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive | 87,360 | 43% | 77 million | $49K |
| Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors | 95,050 | 34% | 67 million | $58K |
| Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary | 183,080 | 16% | 61 million | $125K |
| Teaching Assistants, Postsecondary | 143,910 | 18% | 55 million | $42K |
| Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary | 74,280 | 22% | 34 million | $79K |
| Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants | 31,440 | 47% | 31 million | $66K |
| Business Teachers, Postsecondary | 67,300 | 22% | 31 million | $102K |
| First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers | 40,330 | 35% | 29 million | $67K |
| Coaches and Scouts | 55,010 | 25% | 28 million | $52K |
| Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks | 16,660 | 78% | 27 million | $51K |
| Computer User Support Specialists | 27,830 | 42% | 24 million | $61K |
People: BLS counts for this industry, May 2025. Pay here: the median paid for the job in this industry, else its mean, else the national median. 531 smaller jobs (1,129,740 people) count in every total but are not listed. Task data covers 93% of the industry'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 industry, on the chosen pace and reliability.
- Perform administrative duties, such as serving as department head.Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary52 million hours100% of the task within reach
- Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, course materials, and methods of instruction.Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary45 million hours90% of the task within reach
- Develop teaching materials, such as syllabi, visual aids, answer keys, supplementary notes, or course Web sites.Teaching Assistants, Postsecondary43 million hours100% of the task within reach
- Evaluate and grade students' class work, assignments, and papers.Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary38 million hours99% of the task within reach
- Compute, record, and proofread data and other information, such as records or reports.Office Clerks, General36 million hours100% of the task within reach
- Evaluate and grade examinations, assignments, or papers, and record grades.Teaching Assistants, Postsecondary29 million hours100% of the task within reach
- Perform administrative duties, such as serving as department head.Education Teachers, Postsecondary27 million hours100% of the task within reach
- Perform administrative duties, such as serving as department head.Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary22 million hours100% of the task within reach
- Establish operational policies and procedures and make any necessary modifications, based on analysis of operations, demographics, and other research information.Education Administrators, Postsecondary21 million hours94% of the task within reach
- Maintain and update filing, inventory, mailing, and database systems, either manually or using a computer.Office Clerks, General20 million hours80% of the task within reach
Scan a typical company in this industry
The industry's largest jobs, in the proportions BLS counts across the whole industry, at the pay it pays, run through the company scan. A starting point before you have a roster, or a benchmark for the one you have.
Next to this industry
Within reach now and by the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Elementary and Secondary Schools8,919,090 people23% now, 34% by 2028
- Junior Colleges656,220 people26% now, 55% by 2028
- Other Schools and Instruction558,700 people43% now, 54% by 2028
- Educational Support Services265,600 people30% now, 57% by 2028
- Technical and Trade Schools153,950 people27% now, 55% by 2028
- Business Schools and Computer and Management Training82,160 people28% now, 66% by 2028
How it is built: BLS counts the people in each job in this industry; each job's tasks and their lengths give its share within reach at a date; the industry'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