School Bus Monitors
Maintain order among students on a school bus. Duties include helping students safely board and exit and communicating behavioral problems. May perform pretrip and posttrip inspections and prepare for and assist in emergency evacuations.
78,420 people do this job in the US. $35,100 a year.
of the working time. Estimate.
- 14%
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- 86%
Anthropic's data does not cover this job.
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, 2%. 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 . 18 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monitor the conduct of students to maintain discipline and safety.Done daily by most who do it. | 33% | 38 min17 min to 1.3 h | Stays with people | |
| Clean school bus interiors by picking up waste, wiping down windows, or vacuuming.Done daily by most who do it. | 10% | 21 min8 min to 50 min | Stays with people | |
| Write and submit reports that include data such as the number of passengers or trips, hours worked, mileage driven, or fuel consumed.Done daily by most who do it. | 9% | 17 min8 min to 38 min | 100%Half by now | |
| Direct students boarding and exiting the school bus.Done daily by most who do it. | 7% | 8 min3 min to 21 min | Stays with people | |
| Assist children with disabilities or children with psychological, emotional, or behavioral issues with boarding and exiting the school bus.Done daily by most who do it. | 6% | 8 min3 min to 25 min | Stays with people | |
| Talk to children's parents or guardians about problematic behaviors, emotional or developmental problems, or related issues.Done more than weekly by most who do it. | 5% | 13 min4 min to 33 min | 100%Half by now | |
| Prevent or defuse altercations between students.Done daily by most who do it. | 5% | 8 min2 min to 25 min | Stays with people | |
| Direct students evacuating the bus during safety drills.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 4% | 13 min4 min to 25 min | Stays with people | |
| Evacuate students from the school bus in emergency situations.Done yearly or less by most who do it. | 4% | 13 min4 min to 38 min | Stays with people | |
| Operate a wheelchair lift to load or unload wheelchairs.Done daily by most who do it. | 3% | 7 min3 min to 17 min | Stays with people | |
| Respond to students' questions, requests, or complaints.Done daily by most who do it. | 3% | 4 min1 min to 13 min | Stays with people | |
| Buckle seatbelts or fasten wheelchair tie-down straps to secure passengers for transportation.Done daily by most who do it. | 3% | 4 min2 min to 10 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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