The Task Exposure Indexv2026.Q3
Comparison

Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks vs Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants

Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks carries the higher exposed share at 66.8% against 63.7%, a gap of 3.1 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
Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks66.8%20.7%12.5%0.880.26$44,39011exposed
Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants63.7%19.3%17.0%0.830.25$45,93022exposed

What stands in the way, in each

Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel 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 0.26 of 1.

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.

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.

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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.