Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors
Supervise and coordinate the activities of ground crew in the loading, unloading, securing, and staging of aircraft cargo or baggage. May determine the quantity and orientation of cargo and compute aircraft center of gravity. May accompany aircraft as member of flight crew and monitor and handle cargo in flight, and assist and brief passengers on safety and emergency procedures. Includes loadmasters.
9,760 people do this job in the US. $58,170 a year.
of the working time. Estimate.
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- 70%
Measured, from Anthropic's usage data (2025). Counts help on part of a task.
On the chosen pace and reliability. Estimate.
Share of the working time within reach, now to 2030
What each choice means: , , , , . Every pace starts from .
At this date and pace, models finish tasks up to 4.4 h long four times in five.
How far this has come
With GPT-4, measured in March 2023, 0% of this job's working time was within reach at . With Claude 3.7 Sonnet, measured in February 2025, 1%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 29%. Today's estimate: 30%.
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.
The tasks
Sorted by . 6 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accompany aircraft as a member of the flight crew to monitor and handle cargo in flight.Done yearly or less by most who do it. | 38% | 4.2 h1.7 h to 1 work day | Stays with people | |
| Direct ground crews in the loading, unloading, securing, or staging of aircraft cargo or baggage.Done daily by most who do it. | 21% | 50 min25 min to 1.7 h | Stays with people | |
| Distribute cargo to maximize use of space.Done daily by most who do it. | 12% | 33 min13 min to 1.1 h | 100%Half by now | |
| Train new employees in areas such as safety procedures or equipment operation.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 11% | 2.5 h50 min to 5 h | Stays with people | |
| Determine the quantity and orientation of cargo, and compute an aircraft's center of gravity.Done daily by most who do it. | 10% | 38 min17 min to 1.3 h | 100%Half by now | |
| Calculate load weights for different aircraft compartments, using charts and computers.Done daily by most who do it. | 8% | 21 min8 min to 42 min | 100%Half by now |
Within reach, per task: the share of the task's time whose instances are short enough for a model to finish at the chosen date, pace and reliability. Half by: the date half of that time comes within reach.
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