Business Continuity Planners
Develop, maintain, or implement business continuity and disaster recovery strategies and solutions, including risk assessments, business impact analyses, strategy selection, and documentation of business continuity and disaster recovery procedures. Plan, conduct, and debrief regular mock-disaster exercises to test the adequacy of existing plans and strategies, updating procedures and plans regularly. Act as a coordinator for continuity efforts after a disruption event.
$83,050 a year (for the broader BLS group this job sits in).
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Share of the working time within reach, now to 2030
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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, 0%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 2%. Today's estimate: 5%.
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 . 21 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Develop emergency management plans for recovery decision making and communications, continuity of critical departmental processes, or temporary shut-down of non-critical departments to ensure continuity of operation and governance.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 20% | 2.1 work days6.7 h to 4.2 work days | 0%Half by Jan 2028 | |
| Design or implement products and services to mitigate risk or facilitate use of technology-based tools and methods.Done more than weekly by most who do it. | 13% | 3.3 work days6.7 h to 2.1 work weeks | 0%Half by Oct 2028 | |
| Analyze corporate intelligence data to identify trends, patterns, or warnings indicating threats to security of people, assets, information, or infrastructure.Done more than monthly by most who do it. AI observed on this task. | 12% | 6.7 h1.7 h to 2.5 work days | 8%Half by Sep 2027 | |
| Identify opportunities for strategic improvement or mitigation of business interruption and other risks caused by business, regulatory, or industry-specific change initiatives.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 11% | 1 work day3.3 h to 2.1 work days | 5%Half by Jul 2027 | |
| Recommend or implement methods to monitor, evaluate, or enable resolution of safety, operations, or compliance interruptions.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 8% | 6.7 h1.7 h to 2.5 work days | 8%Half by Sep 2027 | |
| Analyze impact on, and risk to, essential business functions or information systems to identify acceptable recovery time periods and resource requirements.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 8% | 1.7 work days4.2 h to 4.2 work days | 1%Half by Jan 2028 | |
| Develop disaster recovery plans for physical locations with critical assets, such as data centers.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 7% | 2.5 work days1 work day to 1 work week | 0%Half by Feb 2028 | |
| Conduct or oversee contingency plan integration and operation.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 4% | 1.7 work days3.3 h to 4.2 work days | 2%Half by Feb 2028 | |
| Conduct or oversee collection of corporate intelligence to avoid fraud, financial crime, cyber attack, terrorism, and infrastructure failure.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 4% | 6.7 h2.5 h to 2.5 work days | 9%Half by Jul 2027 | |
| Create scenarios to reestablish operations from various types of business disruptions.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 3% | 1 work day3.3 h to 2.5 work days | 5%Half by Jul 2027 | |
| Write reports to summarize testing activities, including descriptions of goals, planning, scheduling, execution, results, analysis, conclusions, and recommendations.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 2% | 6.7 h2.5 h to 2.1 work days | 10%Half by Jun 2027 | |
| Maintain and update organization information technology applications and network systems blueprints.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 2% | 6.7 h1.7 h to 2.5 work days | 8%Half by Sep 2027 |
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