Administrative Assistants

Office & Administrative Support

AI exposure

  • Data source: BLSPublished: '26.08

    Very high· relative

    LowFour relative bandsVery high

    Group-level value

    Scale, basis and source

    Four relative bands (Low / Moderate / High / Very high)

    831 detailed occupations in the BLS Employment Projections table. Assigned per National Employment Matrix (NEM) code, so occupations sharing a NEM code carry the same band

    Source dataset (XLSX download)

  • Data source: AnthropicPublished: '26.03

    0.453

    0.000Range of values carried here0.745
    Scale, basis and source

    Observed exposure index, 0–1 as published

    Mapped onto O*NET tasks

    Source dataset

  • Data source: ILOPublished: '25

    0.58

    0.09Range of values carried here0.70

    Group-level value

    Scale, basis and source

    Generative AI exposure index, 0–1 as published

    ISCO-08 unit group — every occupation sharing the code gets this value

    Computed by this site, not published by the ILO: of the 1,012 occupations this site links to the ILO dataset, 5% score at or above this value.

    Source dataset

What kind of figure this source publishes

The BLS category is a relative rank, not an absolute level, and it is not a first-hand measurement: it groups an occupation's percentile ranks across several published studies into four bands. It is not an employment or wage forecast, not a probability of adoption, and it does not separate automation from augmentation.

Task-level exposure

Show 3 hidden tasks

Values in this tab are predicted labels, not observations. Eloundou et al. (2023) published two rating regimes — human raters and GPT-4 — and the β shown here is derived from the GPT-4 rater basis alone; the same task can take a different value under the other regime. The unit and the meaning differ from the observed shares (%) in the other tabs, so do not place them on the same axis.

TaskβE1 + 0.5 × E2
Open, read, route, and distribute incoming mail or other materials and answer routine letters.

O*NET Task ID 2794

1.0
Complete forms in accordance with company procedures.

O*NET Task ID 2795

1.0
Review work done by others to check for correct spelling and grammar, ensure that company format policies are followed, and recommend revisions.

O*NET Task ID 2797

1.0
Conduct searches to find needed information, using such sources as the Internet.

O*NET Task ID 2805

1.0
Take dictation in shorthand or by machine and transcribe information.

O*NET Task ID 2811

1.0
Use computers for various applications, such as database management or word processing.

O*NET Task ID 20280

1.0
Create, maintain, and enter information into databases.

O*NET Task ID 20281

1.0
Set up and manage paper or electronic filing systems, recording information, updating paperwork, or maintaining documents, such as attendance records, correspondence, or other material.

O*NET Task ID 20282

1.0
Compose, type, and distribute meeting notes, routine correspondence, or reports, such as presentations or expense, statistical, or monthly reports.

O*NET Task ID 20284

1.0
Develop or maintain internal or external company Web sites.

O*NET Task ID 20288

1.0

β = E1 + 0.5 × E2 · E1 = tasks where direct LLM access alone cuts time by at least 50%, E2 = tasks where software built on top of an LLM cuts time by at least 50%. Values take only 0 / 0.5 / 1.0.

Data sources & licenses — O*NET®, Eloundou et al. (2023): see full notices on the Credits page

Occupation information

Recent Changes Affecting This Occupation

Apr 2026: NBER survey of 6,000 executives: 69% use AI but 90% report zero employment impact. Executives predict -0.7% employment decline over next 3 years.

[Source: NBER Working Paper 34836]

Apr 2026: Brookings 2024 flags office/admin support (19M US workers, majority female) as among the five highest-exposure occupation families to generative AI. Over 50% of daily tasks are exposure-scored as assistable or replaceable by current LLMs.

[Source: Brookings 2024 — Generative AI, the American worker]

Apr 2026: OpenAI framework flags administrative assistants in office/administrative high-risk band; ChatGPT usage in this category is roughly 3x the average.

[Source: OpenAI Jobs Transition Framework, April 2026]