Industry group, 5211
Monetary Authorities-Central Bank
20,490 people work in this industry in the US, at mean pay of $144,520 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: 7.2 million hours at what they cost. Not a forecast of savings.
- 77%
- 16%
- 7%
of the paid hours are within reach now in tasks people already bring to Claude. Another 13% 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, 0%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 13%. Today's estimate: 18%.
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 88% of the people.
| People | Pay here | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks | 290 | 78% | 468,084 | $65K |
| Software Developers | 1,550 | 14% | 435,245 | $137K |
| Computer User Support Specialists | 480 | 42% | 418,331 | $62K |
| Customer Service Representatives | 290 | 64% | 388,461 | $61K |
| Financial Managers | 1,160 | 15% | 361,923 | $214K |
| Computer and Information Systems Managers | 670 | 25% | 345,614 | $206K |
| Project Management Specialists | 440 | 33% | 302,933 | $130K |
| General and Operations Managers | 630 | 23% | 298,773 | $237K |
| Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers | 370 | 34% | 262,435 | $128K |
| Security Guards | 760 | 14% | 224,474 | $67K |
| Financial Examiners | 1,770 | 6% | 213,536 | $134K |
| Human Resources Specialists | 260 | 39% | 209,831 | $105K |
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. 36 smaller jobs (2,280 people) count in every total but are not listed. Task data covers 94% 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.
- Investigate activities of institutions to enforce laws and regulations and to ensure legality of transactions and operations or financial solvency.Financial Examiners743,117 hours96% of the task within reach
- Review balance sheets, operating income and expense accounts, and loan documentation to confirm institution assets and liabilities.Financial Examiners617,713 hours96% 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 Managers441,967 hours94% of the task within reach
- Modify existing software to correct errors, adapt it to new hardware, or upgrade interfaces and improve performance.Software Developers432,845 hours100% of the task within reach
- Develop or analyze information to assess the current or future financial status of firms.Financial Managers360,252 hours96% of the task within reach
- Prepare reports, exhibits, and other supporting schedules that detail an institution's safety and soundness, compliance with laws and regulations, and recommended solutions to questionable financial conditions.Financial Examiners330,279 hours98% of the task within reach
- Resolve problems concerning the overall financial integrity of banking institutions including loan investment portfolios, capital, earnings, and specific or large troubled accounts.Financial Examiners312,456 hours90% of the task within reach
- Develop and implement records management program for filing, protection, and retrieval of records, and assure compliance with program.Management Analysts310,793 hours76% of the task within reach
- Prepare financial or regulatory reports required by laws, regulations, or boards of directors.Financial Managers308,363 hours96% of the task within reach
- Analyze user needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints.Software Developers299,555 hours70% 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