Crossing Guards and Flaggers
Guide or control vehicular or pedestrian traffic at such places as streets, schools, railroad crossings, or construction sites.
94,360 people do this job in the US. $38,100 a year.
of the working time. Estimate.
- 19%
- 4%
- 77%
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, 18%. Today's estimate: 19%.
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 . 12 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guide or control vehicular or pedestrian traffic at such places as street and railroad crossings and construction sites.Done daily by most who do it. | 31% | 25 min13 min to 1.3 h | Stays with people | |
| Learn the location and purpose of street traffic signs within assigned patrol areas.Done daily by most who do it. | 17% | 50 min25 min to 1.7 h | 99%Half by now | |
| Direct or escort pedestrians across streets, stopping traffic, as necessary.Done daily by most who do it. | 12% | 8 min4 min to 17 min | Stays with people | |
| Direct traffic movement or warn of hazards, using signs, flags, lanterns, and hand signals.Done daily by most who do it. | 11% | 17 min4 min to 50 min | Stays with people | |
| Communicate traffic and crossing rules and other information to students and adults.Done daily by most who do it. | 8% | 10 min4 min to 21 min | Stays with people | |
| Monitor traffic flow to locate safe gaps through which pedestrians can cross streets.Done daily by most who do it. | 7% | 7 min3 min to 13 min | Stays with people | |
| Discuss traffic routing plans and control-point locations with superiors.Done yearly or less by most who do it. | 4% | 25 min13 min to 50 min | Stays with people | |
| Record license numbers of vehicles disregarding traffic signals, and report infractions to appropriate authorities.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 2% | 13 min4 min to 25 min | Stays with people | |
| Inform drivers of detour routes through construction sites.Done yearly or less by most who do it. | 2% | 13 min4 min to 25 min | Stays with people | |
| Distribute traffic control signs and markers at designated points.Done daily by most who do it. | 2% | 17 min8 min to 38 min | Stays with people | |
| Report unsafe behavior of children to school officials.Done yearly or less by most who do it. | 1% | 8 min4 min to 17 min | 100%Half by now | |
| Stop speeding vehicles to warn drivers of traffic laws.Done daily by most who do it. | 1.0% | 8 min4 min to 17 min | Stays with people |
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.
Jobs that share skills with this one
From O*NET's related occupations. Within reach now and by the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
Where this job works
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