The Task Exposure Indexv2026.Q3
Comparison

Human Resources Specialists vs Financial Examiners

Human Resources Specialists carries the higher exposed share at 42.4% against 39.9%, a gap of 2.4 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
Human Resources Specialists42.4%32.6%25.1%0.750.45$75,940229exposed
Financial Examiners39.9%28.3%31.8%0.680.43$94,160273exposed

What stands in the way, in each

Human Resources Specialists: the dominant friction is that it runs on knowledge of the organisation that a model cannot hold. Capability sits at 0.75 of 1 and friction at 0.45 of 1.

Financial Examiners: the dominant friction is that it runs on knowledge of the organisation that a model cannot hold. Capability sits at 0.68 of 1 and friction at 0.43 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.