The Task Exposure Indexv2026.Q3
Comparison

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.

OccupationExposedAssistedUntouchedCapabilityFrictionMedian payRankBand
Accountants and Auditors49.5%33.1%17.5%0.830.42$83,680113exposed
Appraisers and Assessors of Real Estate46.6%32.9%20.6%0.790.46n/a145exposed

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.