The Task Exposure Indexv2026.Q3
Comparison

Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks vs Office Clerks, General

Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks carries the higher exposed share at 59.4% against 57.1%, a gap of 2.3 points. The difference is driven by capability: a current system can simply produce more of the first job's work product than the second's. Release v2026.Q3.

OccupationExposedAssistedUntouchedCapabilityFrictionMedian payRankBand
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks59.4%26.9%13.7%0.860.32$50,67051exposed
Office Clerks, General57.1%16.7%26.2%0.740.25$45,01060exposed

What stands in the way, in each

Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks: the dominant friction is that it runs on knowledge of the organisation that a model cannot hold. Capability sits at 0.86 of 1 and friction at 0.32 of 1.

Office Clerks, General: the dominant friction is that it runs on knowledge of the organisation that a model cannot hold. Capability sits at 0.74 of 1 and friction at 0.25 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.