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Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks

Compute, classify, and record numerical data to keep financial records complete. Perform any combination of routine calculating, posting, and verifying duties to obtain primary financial data for use in maintaining accounting records. May also check the accuracy of figures, calculations, and postings pertaining to business transactions recorded by other workers.

88 AI exposure
23 Human advantage
58 Market demand
59 AI leverage

Is Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks a safe career from AI?

Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks scores 88 out of 100 for AI exposure, which is high. A large share of this work is the kind current AI systems are measurably good at. That is not a prediction the job disappears, and the research does not support one. It means more of this role is likely to change than most.

Its human advantage score is 23, which is low. Most of this role can be done through a screen, and that is the half of the labor market AI has reached first. Market demand scores 58 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment falling 5.6% over ten years.

What Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks pay

The median wage is $49,210 a year. The lower quarter earns under $41,390 and the upper quarter over $60,220. About 1,455,770 people do this work in the United States.

Where Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks can go next

Occupations that share most of what this job already requires, ranked by how much carries over.

Brokerage Clerks 89% of the skills carry over $63k median
Tax Preparers 88% of the skills carry over $51k median
Power Distributors and Dispatchers 74% of the skills carry over $107k median
Police Identification and Records Officers 75% of the skills carry over $94k median

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Where this comes from

Work content and transitions from O*NET, the US Department of Labor's occupational database. Wages and employment projections from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. AI exposure from published research measuring which occupations current AI capabilities overlap with. None of it is a forecast, and none of these numbers are ours: they are public data, put next to each other.

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