Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants vs Office Clerks, General
Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants carries the higher exposed share at 59.1% against 57.1%, a gap of 2.0 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.
| Occupation | Exposed | Assisted | Untouched | Capability | Friction | Median pay | Rank | Band |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants | 59.1% | 20.3% | 20.6% | 0.79 | 0.26 | $55,570 | 52 | exposed |
| Office Clerks, General | 57.1% | 16.7% | 26.2% | 0.74 | 0.25 | $45,010 | 60 | exposed |
What stands in the way, in each
Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants: 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 0.26 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.