Parking Enforcement Workers
Patrol assigned area, such as public parking lot or city streets to issue tickets to overtime parking violators and illegally parked vehicles.
9,050 people do this job in the US. $46,730 a year.
of the working time. Estimate.
- 14%
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- 86%
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, 14%. Today's estimate: 14%.
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 . 20 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patrol an assigned area by vehicle or on foot to ensure public compliance with existing parking ordinance.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 59% | 1.7 h25 min to 3.3 h | Stays with people | |
| Prepare and maintain required records, including logs of parking enforcement activities, and records of contested citations.Done daily by most who do it. | 6% | 25 min13 min to 50 min | 100%Half by now | |
| Maintain assigned equipment and supplies, such as hand-held citation computers, citation books, rain gear, tire-marking chalk, and street cones.Done daily by most who do it. | 6% | 17 min8 min to 33 min | Stays with people | |
| Investigate and answer complaints regarding contested parking citations, determining their validity and routing them appropriately.Done daily by most who do it. | 4% | 38 min17 min to 1.3 h | 100%Half by now | |
| Train new or temporary staff.Done yearly or less by most who do it. | 3% | 3.3 h50 min to 6.7 h | Stays with people | |
| Write warnings and citations for illegally parked vehicles.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 3% | 4 min3 min to 7 min | Stays with people | |
| Assign and review the work of subordinates.Done daily by most who do it. | 2% | 38 min13 min to 1.3 h | 98%Half by now | |
| Appear in court at hearings regarding contested traffic citations.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 2% | 2.5 h1.7 h to 4.2 h | Stays with people | |
| Locate lost, stolen, and counterfeit parking permits, and take necessary enforcement action.Done yearly or less by most who do it. | 2% | 25 min8 min to 50 min | Stays with people | |
| Enter and retrieve information pertaining to vehicle registration, identification, and status, using hand-held computers.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 2% | 3 min2 min to 7 min | Stays with people | |
| Respond to and make radio dispatch calls regarding parking violations and complaints.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 1% | 4 min2 min to 13 min | 100%Half by now | |
| Mark tires of parked vehicles with chalk and record time of marking, and return at regular intervals to ensure that parking time limits are not exceeded.Done daily by most who do it. | 1% | 4 min2 min to 8 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.
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