New Accounts Clerks
Interview persons desiring to open accounts in financial institutions. Explain account services available to prospective customers and assist them in preparing applications.
36,860 people do this job in the US. $47,670 a year.
of the working time. Estimate.
- 61%
- 12%
- 28%
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, 8%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 60%. Today's estimate: 61%.
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 . 15 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perform teller duties as required.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 26% | 38 min13 min to 1.7 h | Stays with people | |
| Compile information about new accounts, enter account information into computers, and file related forms or other documents.Done several times a day by most who do it. | 15% | 25 min13 min to 1.1 h | 100%Half by now | |
| Interview customers to obtain information needed for opening accounts or renting safe-deposit boxes.Done several times a day by most who do it. | 12% | 25 min13 min to 50 min | Stays with people | |
| Collect and record customer deposits and fees and issue receipts, using computers.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 11% | 13 min4 min to 25 min | 100%Half by now | |
| Inform customers of procedures for applying for services, such as ATM cards, direct deposit of checks, and certificates of deposit.Done daily by most who do it. | 10% | 17 min8 min to 33 min | 100%Half by now | |
| Answer customers' questions and explain available services, such as deposit accounts, bonds, and securities.Done daily by most who do it. | 7% | 13 min4 min to 25 min | 100%Half by now | |
| Investigate and correct errors upon customers' request, according to customer and bank records.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 7% | 38 min13 min to 1.3 h | 98%Half by now | |
| Process loan applications.Done more than weekly by most who do it. AI observed on this task. | 4% | 1.1 h25 min to 2.1 h | 95%Half by now | |
| Refer customers to appropriate bank personnel to meet their financial needs.Done daily by most who do it. | 3% | 8 min4 min to 17 min | 100%Half by now | |
| Execute wire transfers of funds.Done more than weekly by most who do it. | 2% | 17 min8 min to 33 min | 100%Half by now | |
| Issue initial and replacement safe-deposit keys to customers, and admit customers to vaults.Done daily by most who do it. | 1% | 8 min4 min to 21 min | Stays with people | |
| Obtain credit records from reporting agencies.Done more than weekly by most who do it. | 1% | 17 min8 min to 33 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.
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.
- Tellers35% now, 35% by 2028
- Brokerage Clerks66% now, 67% by 2028
- Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel69% now, 88% by 2028
- Customer Service Representatives67% now, 67% by 2028
- Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents59% now, 87% by 2028
- Credit Authorizers, Checkers, and Clerks75% now, 86% by 2028
Where this job works
The industry groups that employ the most of it (BLS, May 2025).
Where the most of these jobs are
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