Industry group, 6116
Other Schools and Instruction
558,700 people work in this industry in the US, at mean pay of $53,530 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: 472 million hours at what they cost. Not a forecast of savings.
- 55%
- 14%
- 31%
of the paid hours are within reach now in tasks people already bring to Claude. Another 29% 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, 39%. Today's estimate: 43%.
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 93% of the people.
| People | Pay here | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Self-Enrichment Teachers | 184,830 | 54% | 207 million | $46K |
| Tutors | 69,400 | 66% | 95 million | $43K |
| Coaches and Scouts | 61,090 | 25% | 31 million | $38K |
| Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors | 23,200 | 57% | 27 million | $45K |
| Office Clerks, General | 16,180 | 54% | 18 million | $40K |
| Receptionists and Information Clerks | 9,950 | 59% | 12 million | $36K |
| General and Operations Managers | 19,840 | 23% | 9.4 million | $72K |
| Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive | 10,330 | 43% | 9.2 million | $44K |
| Customer Service Representatives | 4,040 | 64% | 5.4 million | $39K |
| Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks | 3,190 | 78% | 5.1 million | $49K |
| Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors | 4,080 | 57% | 4.9 million | $54K |
| Recreation Workers | 9,620 | 14% | 2.9 million | $36K |
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. 141 smaller jobs (35,180 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.
- Adapt teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students' varying needs and interests.Self-Enrichment Teachers42 million hours100% of the task within reach
- Review instructional content, methods, and student evaluations to assess strengths and weaknesses, and to develop recommendations for course revision, development, or elimination.Self-Enrichment Teachers30 million hours100% of the task within reach
- Provide private instruction to individual or small groups of students to improve academic performance, improve occupational skills, or prepare for academic or occupational tests.Tutors25 million hours100% of the task within reach
- Observe students to determine qualifications, limitations, abilities, interests, and other individual characteristics.Self-Enrichment Teachers22 million hours100% of the task within reach
- Prepare instructional program objectives, outlines, and lesson plans.Self-Enrichment Teachers22 million hours100% of the task within reach
- Assign and grade class work and homework.Self-Enrichment Teachers21 million hours100% of the task within reach
- Review class material with students by discussing text, working solutions to problems, or reviewing worksheets or other assignments.Tutors20 million hours100% of the task within reach
- Monitor students' performance to make suggestions for improvement and to ensure that they satisfy course standards, training requirements, and objectives.Self-Enrichment Teachers18 million hours100% of the task within reach
- Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects and communicate those objectives to students.Self-Enrichment Teachers14 million hours100% of the task within reach
- Observe and evaluate the performance of other instructors.Self-Enrichment Teachers13 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.
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
- Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools3,216,330 people23% now, 54% by 2028
- Junior Colleges656,220 people26% now, 55% 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