Parking Attendants
Park vehicles or issue tickets for customers in a parking lot or garage. May park or tend vehicles in environments such as a car dealership or rental car facility. May collect fee.
137,880 people do this job in the US. $35,150 a year.
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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, 0%. Today's estimate: 0%.
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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keep parking areas clean and orderly to ensure that space usage is maximized.Done daily by most who do it. | 22% | 25 min13 min to 50 min | Stays with people | |
| Perform cash handling tasks, such as making change, balancing and recording cash drawer, or distributing tips.Done daily by most who do it. | 19% | 17 min8 min to 38 min | Stays with people | |
| Park and retrieve automobiles for customers in parking lots, storage garages, or new car lots.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 11% | 8 min4 min to 17 min | Stays with people | |
| Patrol parking areas to prevent vehicle damage and vehicle or property thefts.Done daily by most who do it. | 7% | 25 min13 min to 1.3 h | Stays with people | |
| Inspect vehicles to detect any damage.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 6% | 4 min2 min to 13 min | Stays with people | |
| Take numbered tags from customers, locate vehicles, and deliver vehicles, or provide customers with instructions for locating vehicles.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 6% | 4 min3 min to 8 min | Stays with people | |
| Explain and calculate parking charges, collect fees from customers, and respond to customer complaints.Done daily by most who do it. | 5% | 5 min3 min to 13 min | Stays with people | |
| Issue ticket stubs or place numbered tags on windshields, log tags or attach tag to customers' keys, and give customers matching tags for locating parked vehicles.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 4% | 3 min2 min to 4 min | Stays with people | |
| Call emergency responders or the proper authorities and provide motorist assistance, such as giving directions or helping jump start a stalled vehicle.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 4% | 17 min8 min to 38 min | Stays with people | |
| Provide customer assistance and information, such as giving directions or handling wheelchairs.Done daily by most who do it. | 4% | 4 min2 min to 13 min | Stays with people | |
| Greet customers and open their car doors.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 3% | 2 min1 min to 3 min | Stays with people | |
| Perform maintenance on cars in storage to protect tires, batteries, or exteriors from deterioration.Done daily by most who do it. | 3% | 25 min8 min to 50 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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