Industry group, 6213
Offices of Other Health Practitioners
1,305,160 people work in this industry in the US, at mean pay of $71,550 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: 987 million hours at what they cost. Not a forecast of savings.
- 46%
- 18%
- 36%
of the paid hours are within reach now in tasks people already bring to Claude. Another 30% 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, 3%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 34%. Today's estimate: 37%.
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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants | 80,840 | 81% | 136 million | $40K |
| Receptionists and Information Clerks | 60,490 | 59% | 74 million | $38K |
| Speech-Language Pathologists | 49,320 | 71% | 72 million | $99K |
| Mental Health Counselors | 53,390 | 65% | 72 million | $58K |
| Substance Abuse and Behavioral Disorder Counselors | 53,390 | 46% | 51 million | $58K |
| Physical Therapists | 103,680 | 22% | 48 million | $97K |
| Office Clerks, General | 42,180 | 54% | 48 million | $42K |
| Medical Assistants | 63,000 | 29% | 38 million | $38K |
| Billing and Posting Clerks | 20,790 | 77% | 33 million | $46K |
| Marriage and Family Therapists | 25,720 | 57% | 30 million | $64K |
| Clinical and Counseling Psychologists | 32,710 | 39% | 26 million | $99K |
| Occupational Therapists | 48,200 | 21% | 21 million | $98K |
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. 190 smaller jobs (150,530 people) count in every total but are not listed. Task data covers 99% 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 bookkeeping duties, such as credits or collections, preparing and sending financial statements or bills, and keeping financial records.Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants32 million hours100% of the task within reach
- Conduct or support research and apply research findings to practice.Physical Therapists23 million hours100% of the task within reach
- Perform administrative support tasks, such as proofreading, transcribing handwritten information, or operating calculators or computers to work with pay records, invoices, balance sheets, or other documents.Receptionists and Information Clerks19 million hours100% of the task within reach
- Operate office equipment, such as voice mail messaging systems, and use word processing, spreadsheet, or other software applications to prepare reports, invoices, financial statements, letters, case histories, or medical records.Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants18 million hours100% of the task within reach
- Complete insurance or other claim forms.Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants16 million hours100% of the task within reach
- Prepare correspondence or assist physicians or medical scientists with preparation of reports, speeches, articles, or conference proceedings.Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants13 million hours100% of the task within reach
- Compile reports of cost factors, such as labor, production, storage, and equipment.Billing and Posting Clerks13 million hours100% of the task within reach
- Compile and record medical charts, reports, or correspondence, using typewriter or personal computer.Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants13 million hours100% of the task within reach
- Develop or implement treatment plans for problems such as stuttering, delayed language, swallowing disorders, or inappropriate pitch or harsh voice problems, based on own assessments and recommendations of physicians, psychologists, or social workers.Speech-Language Pathologists12 million hours100% of the task within reach
- Maintain medical records, technical library, or correspondence files.Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants12 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.
- Offices of Physicians2,936,460 people39% now, 49% by 2028
- Home Health Care Services1,789,480 people17% now, 21% by 2028
- Outpatient Care Centers1,182,730 people35% now, 48% by 2028
- Offices of Dentists1,054,930 people34% now, 42% by 2028
- Other Ambulatory Health Care Services369,130 people22% now, 50% by 2028
- Medical and Diagnostic Laboratories309,310 people28% now, 40% 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