Subsector, 523
Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities
1,099,930 people work in this industry in the US, at mean pay of $148,700 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: 892 million hours at what they cost. Not a forecast of savings.
- 80%
- 13%
- 7%
of the paid hours are within reach now in tasks people already bring to Claude. Another 23% 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, 33%. Today's estimate: 39%.
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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Personal Financial Advisors | 192,160 | 66% | 263 million | $121K |
| Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents | 173,040 | 59% | 211 million | $103K |
| Customer Service Representatives | 33,420 | 67% | 46 million | $60K |
| Office Clerks, General | 33,960 | 58% | 41 million | $48K |
| Brokerage Clerks | 24,380 | 66% | 33 million | $70K |
| Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants | 32,770 | 47% | 32 million | $80K |
| Financial Managers | 70,400 | 19% | 27 million | $224K |
| Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive | 29,420 | 39% | 24 million | $52K |
| Financial and Investment Analysts | 89,390 | 11% | 21 million | $124K |
| Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks | 10,380 | 76% | 16 million | $57K |
| General and Operations Managers | 39,880 | 19% | 15 million | $199K |
| First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers | 13,340 | 47% | 13 million | $95K |
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. 97 smaller jobs (73,230 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.
- Analyze financial information obtained from clients to determine strategies for meeting clients' financial objectives.Personal Financial Advisors76 million hours100% of the task within reach
- Manage client portfolios, keeping client plans up-to-date.Personal Financial Advisors57 million hours100% of the task within reach
- Identify opportunities or develop channels for purchase or sale of securities or commodities.Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents46 million hours100% of the task within reach
- Determine customers' financial services needs and prepare proposals to sell services that address these needs.Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents42 million hours100% of the task within reach
- Develop financial plans, based on analysis of clients' financial status.Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents41 million hours99% of the task within reach
- Devise trading, option, or hedge strategies.Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents41 million hours100% of the task within reach
- Review clients' accounts and plans regularly to determine whether life changes, economic changes, environmental concerns, or financial performance indicate a need for plan reassessment.Personal Financial Advisors35 million hours100% of the task within reach
- Implement financial planning recommendations, or refer clients to someone who can assist them with plan implementation.Personal Financial Advisors33 million hours100% of the task within reach
- Prepare or interpret for clients information, such as investment performance reports, financial document summaries, or income projections.Personal Financial Advisors30 million hours100% of the task within reach
- Track and analyze factors that affect price movement, such as trade policies, weather conditions, political developments, or supply and demand changes.Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents29 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.
Inside 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