Financial Examiners
Enforce or ensure compliance with laws and regulations governing financial and securities institutions and financial and real estate transactions. May examine, verify, or authenticate records.
67,830 people do this job in the US. $94,160 a year.
of the working time. Estimate.
- 81%
- 19%
- 1%
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, 0%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 3%. Today's estimate: 6%.
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 . 17 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Investigate activities of institutions to enforce laws and regulations and to ensure legality of transactions and operations or financial solvency.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 21% | 2.1 work days6.7 h to 1 work week | 0%Half by Feb 2028 | |
| Review balance sheets, operating income and expense accounts, and loan documentation to confirm institution assets and liabilities.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 17% | 6.7 h1.7 h to 2.5 work days | 8%Half by Sep 2027 | |
| Resolve problems concerning the overall financial integrity of banking institutions including loan investment portfolios, capital, earnings, and specific or large troubled accounts.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 9% | 1.7 work days3.3 h to 4.2 work days | 2%Half by Feb 2028 | |
| Prepare reports, exhibits, and other supporting schedules that detail an institution's safety and soundness, compliance with laws and regulations, and recommended solutions to questionable financial conditions.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 9% | 1.3 work days3.3 h to 3.1 work days | 3%Half by Oct 2027 | |
| Train other examiners in the financial examination process.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 9% | 6.7 h1.7 h to 2.1 work days | Stays with people | |
| Establish guidelines for procedures and policies that comply with new and revised regulations and direct their implementation.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 9% | 1.7 work days3.3 h to 4.2 work days | 2%Half by Feb 2028 | |
| Plan, supervise, and review work of assigned subordinates.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 7% | 3.3 h50 min to 1 work day | Stays with people | |
| Evaluate data processing applications for institutions under examination to develop recommendations for coordinating existing systems with examination procedures.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 3% | 5 h1.7 h to 2.1 work days | 15%Half by Jun 2027 | |
| Review applications for mergers, acquisitions, establishment of new institutions, acceptance in Federal Reserve System, or registration of securities sales to determine their public interest value and conformance to regulations, and recommend acceptance or rejection.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 3% | 2.1 work days3.3 h to 1.3 work weeks | 1%Half by Jul 2028 | |
| Direct and participate in formal and informal meetings with bank directors, trustees, senior management, counsels, outside accountants, and consultants to gather information and discuss findings.Done more than weekly by most who do it. | 2% | 1.7 h50 min to 3.3 h | Stays with people | |
| Recommend actions to ensure compliance with laws and regulations, or to protect solvency of institutions.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 2% | 2.5 h50 min to 6.7 h | 46%Half by Oct 2026 | |
| Review audit reports of internal and external auditors to monitor adequacy of scope of reports or to discover specific weaknesses in internal routines.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 2% | 3.3 h50 min to 6.7 h | 32%Half by Jan 2027 |
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
The industry groups that employ the most of it (BLS, May 2025).
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