Industry group, 5511
Management of Companies and Enterprises
2,828,130 people work in this industry in the US, at mean pay of $115,590 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: 1.7 billion hours at what they cost. Not a forecast of savings.
- 71%
- 14%
- 15%
of the paid hours are within reach now in tasks people already bring to Claude. Another 20% is within reach in tasks not yet seen there.
Across the US: 24% within reach now and 39% 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, 2%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 24%. Today's estimate: 29%.
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 64% of the people.
| People | Pay here | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Customer Service Representatives | 108,330 | 67% | 150 million | $48K |
| Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks | 71,290 | 76% | 113 million | $51K |
| Human Resources Specialists | 73,460 | 44% | 67 million | $80K |
| First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers | 55,680 | 47% | 54 million | $81K |
| General and Operations Managers | 124,740 | 19% | 48 million | $165K |
| Project Management Specialists | 50,570 | 45% | 47 million | $124K |
| Billing and Posting Clerks | 27,520 | 77% | 44 million | $49K |
| Computer and Information Systems Managers | 73,160 | 28% | 43 million | $177K |
| Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel | 28,370 | 69% | 40 million | $76K |
| Office Clerks, General | 33,320 | 58% | 40 million | $48K |
| Financial Managers | 94,170 | 19% | 37 million | $172K |
| Computer User Support Specialists | 39,110 | 42% | 34 million | $64K |
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. 451 smaller jobs (995,278 people) count in every total but are not listed. Task data covers 98% 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.
- Collect and analyze data on customer demographics, preferences, needs, and buying habits to identify potential markets and factors affecting product demand.Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists42 million hours90% of the task within reach
- Evaluate financial reporting systems, accounting or collection procedures, or investment activities and make recommendations for changes to procedures, operating systems, budgets, or other financial control functions.Financial Managers36 million hours94% of the task within reach
- Develop or analyze information to assess the current or future financial status of firms.Financial Managers29 million hours96% of the task within reach
- Modify existing software to correct errors, adapt it to new hardware, or upgrade interfaces and improve performance.Software Developers29 million hours100% of the task within reach
- Analyze user needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints.Software Developers29 million hours99% of the task within reach
- Prepare, examine, or analyze accounting records, financial statements, or other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards.Accountants and Auditors28 million hours98% of the task within reach
- Develop computer information resources, providing for data security and control, strategic computing, and disaster recovery.Computer and Information Systems Managers26 million hours62% of the task within reach
- Prepare financial or regulatory reports required by laws, regulations, or boards of directors.Financial Managers25 million hours96% of the task within reach
- 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 Representatives25 million hours100% of the task within reach
- Contact customers to respond to inquiries or to notify them of claim investigation results or any planned adjustments.Customer Service Representatives24 million hours100% 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.
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