Industry group, 7213
Rooming and Boarding Houses, Dormitories, and Workers' Camps
9,620 people work in this industry in the US, at mean pay of $41,800 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: 3.1 million hours at what they cost. Not a forecast of savings.
- 22%
- 10%
- 69%
of the paid hours are within reach now in tasks people already bring to Claude. Another 14% 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, 16%. Today's estimate: 17%.
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 17 largest jobs hold 96% of the people.
| People | Pay here | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks | 910 | 54% | 1 million | $32K |
| Residential Advisors | 1,270 | 28% | 739,649 | $46K |
| Office Clerks, General | 170 | 54% | 192,005 | $42K |
| Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria | 520 | 16% | 171,975 | $41K |
| Lodging Managers | 300 | 27% | 168,481 | $52K |
| General and Operations Managers | 290 | 23% | 137,530 | $70K |
| First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial Workers | 150 | 40% | 123,240 | $46K |
| Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Managers | 160 | 32% | 105,498 | $52K |
| First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers | 90 | 35% | 64,771 | $50K |
| Maintenance and Repair Workers, General | 480 | 6% | 56,909 | $38K |
| Food Servers, Nonrestaurant | 230 | 10% | 49,754 | $29K |
| Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners | 410 | 3% | 25,584 | $39K |
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. 7 smaller jobs (370 people) count in every total but are not listed. Task data covers 89% 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 activities, such as balancing accounts and conducting nightly audits.Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks314,110 hours100% of the task within reach
- Develop and coordinate educational programs for residents.Residential Advisors133,956 hours100% of the task within reach
- Make and confirm reservations.Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks120,950 hours100% of the task within reach
- Keep records of room availability and guests' accounts, manually or using computers.Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks116,464 hours100% of the task within reach
- Review accounts and charges with guests during the check out process.Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks112,565 hours100% of the task within reach
- Communicate with other staff to resolve problems with individual students.Residential Advisors108,464 hours100% of the task within reach
- Develop and implement policies and procedures for the operation of a department or establishment.Lodging Managers101,512 hours100% of the task within reach
- Oversee departmental budget.Residential Advisors100,434 hours100% of the task within reach
- Develop program plans for individuals or assist in plan development.Residential Advisors99,535 hours100% of the task within reach
- Plan menus that are varied, nutritionally balanced, and appetizing, taking advantage of foods in season and local availability.Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria99,182 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.
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