Headline risk
39%
High RiskBookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks
United States AI Work Index tracks this occupation on the shared structural baseline and then layers on local demand resilience, wages, and confidence.
Why This Score
Share of job tasks that overlap with current AI capabilities
Median annual wage
Projected employment change over 10 years
Typical preparation needed for this occupation
Occupation profile
Compute, classify, and record numerical data to keep financial records complete. Perform any combination of routine calculating, posting, and verifying duties to obtain primary financial data for use in maintaining accounting records. May also check the accuracy of figures, calculations, and postings pertaining to business transactions recorded by other workers.
Task evidence
100% weighted task match · 19% effective coverage
Scores combine AI task overlap, human advantages, and local demand. How it works
United States Now
Median Wage
USD 49,210
Employment 2024
1613.4K
Projected Change (2024–34)
-5.8%
Openings (2024–34)
170.0K
Wage distribution
Demand outlook
Employment of bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks is projected to grow 6 percent from 2024 to 2034, decline.
Role Profile
Tasks
- 1. Operate computers programmed with accounting software to record, store, and analyze information. AI use: 100%
- 2. Check figures, postings, and documents for correct entry, mathematical accuracy, and proper codes. AI use: 0%
- 3. Operate 10-key calculators, typewriters, and copy machines to perform calculations and produce documents. AI use: 0%
- 4. Perform general office duties, such as filing, answering telephones, and handling routine correspondence. AI use: 0%
- 5. Comply with federal, state, and company policies, procedures, and regulations. AI use: 0%
- 6. Reconcile or note and report discrepancies found in records. AI use: 0%
Technologies
Requirements
Work context
Worker profile
Median age 49.8 · 1.3M employed
Under 25: 6% · 25–54: 54% · 55+: 40%
Related
No direct US role match is available yet for this occupation.
Source coverage
11/11 source families · O*NET 30.2 / OEWS 2024 / ORS 2025 / OOH 2025-08-28 / Projections 2024-34 / CPS 2025 / Anthropic task penetration
Mapping quality
crosswalk_exact · employment series present
Narrative & sources
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks compute, classify, and record data to help organizations keep complete and accurate financial records.
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks usually work in an office setting. Most work full time.
Entry requirements vary for bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks. Some employers require or prefer that workers have taken college courses or have a degree in accounting or a related field. Others may hire workers who have a high school diploma. These workers also learn some of their skills on the job.
The median annual wage for bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks was $49,210 in May 2024.
Employment of bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks is projected to grow 6 percent from 2024 to 2034, decline.
Published limitations
This page shows the local country layer, not realised individual job outcomes. The global structural baseline is shared across countries; only the local demand and wage layer changes here.
Built from O*NET occupation descriptions, task statements, technology skills, work context, Job Zones, Anthropic task penetration, BLS OEWS wages, BLS projection tables, BLS ORS requirements, BLS OOH narrative content, BLS skills data, and BLS CPS occupation age tables.