Accountants and Auditors vs Appraisers and Assessors of Real Estate
Accountants and Auditors carries the higher exposed share at 49.5% against 46.6%, a gap of 2.9 points. The difference is driven by both capability and friction: the two jobs differ in what a system can produce and in what stops it, by roughly the same amount. Release v2026.Q3.
| Occupation | Exposed | Assisted | Untouched | Capability | Friction | Median pay | Rank | Band |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accountants and Auditors | 49.5% | 33.1% | 17.5% | 0.83 | 0.42 | $83,680 | 113 | exposed |
| Appraisers and Assessors of Real Estate | 46.6% | 32.9% | 20.6% | 0.79 | 0.46 | n/a | 145 | exposed |
What stands in the way, in each
Accountants and Auditors: the dominant friction is that it runs on knowledge of the organisation that a model cannot hold. Capability sits at 0.83 of 1 and friction at 0.42 of 1.
Appraisers and Assessors of Real Estate: the dominant friction is that it runs on knowledge of the organisation that a model cannot hold. Capability sits at 0.79 of 1 and friction at 0.46 of 1.
Capability asks whether a generally available system can produce the work product at all. Friction asks what stops it finishing the job: physical work, being present, being accountable, unseen context, or the cost of checking the output. The rubric is here.
Read each in full
Exposure is not displacement. A higher score does not rank two jobs by how safe they are, and nothing here models adoption, employment or pay.