Career Explorer Office and admin
Changing shape
Office and administrative support workers, all other
All office and administrative support workers not listed separately.
Among the careers AI is changing fastest: more resilient than 3% of the 831 careers we score. AI exposure is very high (the Bureau of Labor Statistics rates it very high), and US jobs are projected to change by -7.3% by 2035, expected to shrink.
AI can do many of the tasks, and hiring is expected to grow slower than average or to shrink. The job is likely to change, so build the human parts of it.
- Median pay (2025)
- $45,670
- Job growth to 2035
- -7.3%
- Openings a year
- 19,100
- People doing it (2025)
- 231,000
- Usual route in
- High school diploma, then short on-the-job training
What the Bureau of Labor Statistics expects
- Fewer of these jobs, as increased use of technology require fewer workers to perform these duties such as stuffing envelopes.
Careers using similar strengths, with a stronger outlook
- Information and record clerks, all otherChanging shape, Index 7, +0.8%
- Communications equipment operators, all otherChanging shape, Index 5, +1.0%
- Financial clerks, all otherChanging shape, Index 5, 0.0%
- Legal secretaries and administrative assistantsChanging shape, Index 9, -5.2%
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Sources: US Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections 2025 to 2035; O*NET 31.0; Microsoft Research (2025); Anthropic Economic Index (2026); Eloundou and colleagues (Science, 2024); Felten, Raj and Seamans (2023). How we score. Updated 12 October 2026.