AI exposure by occupation, O*NET 13-1199.04
Will AI replace Business Continuity Planners?
Business Continuity Planners: AI can already handle 5 of 21 tasks; the work mostly needs a frontier-tier model.
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Every task, scored
The 21 tasks O*NET 30.3 lists for Business Continuity Planners, from most to least exposed. 5 reach 60 or more, the level at which AI already handles a task.
| Task | AI exposure | Evidence | Model tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Write reports to summarize testing activities, including descriptions of goals, planning, scheduling, execution, results, analysis, conclusions, and recommendations. | Estimated | Efficient | |
| Prepare reports summarizing operational results, financial performance, or accomplishments of specified objectives, goals, or plans. | Observed | Standard | |
| Create or administer training and awareness presentations or materials. | Observed | Efficient | |
| Review existing disaster recovery, crisis management, or business continuity plans. | Estimated | Frontier | |
| Recommend or implement methods to monitor, evaluate, or enable resolution of safety, operations, or compliance interruptions. | Estimated | Efficient | |
| Conduct or oversee collection of corporate intelligence to avoid fraud, financial crime, cyber attack, terrorism, and infrastructure failure. | Estimated | Efficient | |
| Identify opportunities for strategic improvement or mitigation of business interruption and other risks caused by business, regulatory, or industry-specific change initiatives. | Estimated | Standard | |
| Analyze impact on, and risk to, essential business functions or information systems to identify acceptable recovery time periods and resource requirements. | Estimated | Standard | |
| Identify individual or transaction targets to direct intelligence collection. | Estimated | Efficient | |
| Create business continuity and disaster recovery budgets. | Estimated | Standard | |
| Create scenarios to reestablish operations from various types of business disruptions. | Estimated | Standard | |
| Analyze corporate intelligence data to identify trends, patterns, or warnings indicating threats to security of people, assets, information, or infrastructure. | Estimated | Frontier | |
| Develop emergency management plans for recovery decision making and communications, continuity of critical departmental processes, or temporary shut-down of non-critical departments to ensure continuity of operation and governance. | Estimated | Frontier | |
| Test documented disaster recovery strategies and plans. | Estimated | Frontier | |
| Develop disaster recovery plans for physical locations with critical assets, such as data centers. | Estimated | Frontier | |
| Design or implement products and services to mitigate risk or facilitate use of technology-based tools and methods. | Estimated | Frontier | |
| Conduct or oversee contingency plan integration and operation. | Estimated | Frontier | |
| Attend professional meetings, read literature, and participate in training or other educational offerings to keep abreast of new developments and technologies related to disaster recovery and business continuity. | Estimated | Standard | |
| Interpret government regulations and applicable codes to ensure compliance. | Observed | Efficient | |
| Establish, maintain, or test call trees to ensure appropriate communication during disaster. | Estimated | Standard | |
| Maintain and update organization information technology applications and network systems blueprints. | Estimated | Efficient |
Observed: scored from AI use recorded in the Anthropic Economic Index (June 2026 release), 3 of 21 tasks. Estimated: scored from the task's O*NET 30.3 work activity, 18 of 21. Importance is O*NET's 1 to 5 rating of how central the task is. Model tier is the lowest tier that can do the task under the published rubric; "No tier" marks hands-on work.
The model tier this role needs
A frontier-tier model or lower covers 100% of the role's importance-weighted task work. 100% of the work is something AI can address at some tier.
Efficient, standard and frontier tiers come from the JobRoute model tier reference. The recommended tier is the lowest one that covers 80% of the work AI can address. How the method works.
Wages, employment and outlook
- US employment
- 1,087,090
- Median annual wage
- $83,050
- Middle half of earners
- $62,640 to $114,010
- Projected change, 2024 to 2034
- +3.0%
Employment and wages: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, national. Projection: BLS Employment Projections 2024 to 2034. BLS publishes these figures by SOC code, so O*NET occupations that share a SOC code show the same figures.
Adjacent roles
The occupations that reuse the most of this role's skills, with the usual time to move. These are the first places to look when you plan to redeploy or retrain people in this role.
- Emergency Management Directors 59% skill overlap, about 15 months to move Exposure48
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- Environmental Restoration Planners 57% skill overlap, about 16 months to move Exposure53
- Business Intelligence Analysts 57% skill overlap, about 16 months to move Exposure65
- Transportation Planners 55% skill overlap, about 16 months to move Exposure59
Skill overlap and transition time from the JobRoute role adjacency graph on O*NET 30.3 skills.
Questions about Business Continuity Planners and AI
Will AI replace Business Continuity Planners?
AI already handles 5 of the 21 tasks O*NET lists for this occupation, at a task exposure of 60 or more, and the role's importance-weighted exposure is 54 out of 100. JobRoute scores tasks, not whole jobs, so the score shows how much of the work changes rather than whether the job disappears. BLS projects employment to change by +3.0% from 2024 to 2034.
What is the AI exposure of Business Continuity Planners?
54 out of 100 on JobRoute's task exposure measure, the importance-weighted average of the role's O*NET task scores. Higher means more of the work is AI-doable today. 3 of the 21 task scores are observed in the Anthropic Economic Index (June 2026 release), and the other 18 are estimated from each task's O*NET work activity.
Which Business Continuity Planners tasks can AI already do?
The tasks with the highest exposure are: Write reports to summarize testing activities, including descriptions of goals, planning, scheduling, execution, results, analysis, conclusions, and recommendations; Prepare reports summarizing operational results, financial performance, or accomplishments of specified objectives, goals, or plans; Create or administer training and awareness presentations or materials. They are three of the 5 tasks that reach 60 or more.
What AI model tier does this role need?
A frontier-tier model or lower covers 100% of the role's importance-weighted task work. JobRoute assigns each task the lowest tier that can do it under a published rubric and recommends the lowest tier that covers 80% of the work AI can address.
How many people work as Business Continuity Planners, and what do they earn?
1,087,090 people in the United States, with a median annual wage of $83,050 (BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025). BLS Employment Projections expect a change of +3.0% from 2024 to 2034.
How to cite
Data version 2026-11-02, JobRoute method v1.0.0. Download all occupations or this occupation as JSON. Methodology.
JobRoute (2026). AI exposure: Business Continuity Planners. Data version 2026-11-02, method v1.0.0. Built on O*NET 30.3, BLS OEWS May 2025 and the Anthropic Economic Index (June 2026). CC BY 4.0. https://www.jobroute.ai/jobs/business-continuity-planners
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