Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants vs Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks
Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants carries the higher exposed share at 63.7% against 61.4%, a gap of 2.3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants | 63.7% | 19.3% | 17.0% | 0.83 | 0.25 | $45,930 | 22 | exposed |
| Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks | 61.4% | 26.2% | 12.4% | 0.88 | 0.31 | $58,260 | 36 | exposed |
What stands in the way, in each
Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants: the dominant friction is that it runs on knowledge of the organisation that a model cannot hold. Capability sits at 0.83 of 1 and friction at 0.25 of 1.
Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks: the dominant friction is that it runs on knowledge of the organisation that a model cannot hold. Capability sits at 0.88 of 1 and friction at 0.31 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.