AI exposure by occupation, O*NET 13-2099.01
Will AI replace Financial Quantitative Analysts?
Financial Quantitative Analysts: AI can already handle 12 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 Financial Quantitative Analysts, from most to least exposed. 12 reach 60 or more, the level at which AI already handles a task.
| Task | AI exposure | Evidence | Model tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Provide application or analytical support to researchers or traders on issues such as valuations or data. | Observed | Standard | |
| Prepare requirements documentation for use by software developers. | Observed | Frontier | |
| Devise or apply independent models or tools to help verify results of analytical systems. | Estimated | Standard | |
| Define or recommend model specifications or data collection methods. | Observed | Standard | |
| Develop methods of assessing or measuring corporate performance in terms of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues. | Estimated | Frontier | |
| Develop tools to assess green technologies or green financial products, such as green hedge funds or social responsibility investment funds. | Estimated | Frontier | |
| Assess the potential impact of climate change on business financial issues, such as damage repairs, insurance costs, or potential disruptions of daily activities. | Estimated | Standard | |
| Apply mathematical or statistical techniques to address practical issues in finance, such as derivative valuation, securities trading, risk management, or financial market regulation. | Estimated | Standard | |
| Produce written summary reports of financial research results. | Estimated | Efficient | |
| Consult traders or other financial industry personnel to determine the need for new or improved analytical applications. | Estimated | Standard | |
| Research new financial products or analytics to determine their usefulness. | Estimated | Standard | |
| Analyze pricing or risks of carbon trading products. | Estimated | Standard | |
| Research or develop analytical tools to address issues such as portfolio construction or optimization, performance measurement, attribution, profit and loss measurement, or pricing models. | Estimated | Frontier | |
| Develop core analytical capabilities or model libraries, using advanced statistical, quantitative, or econometric techniques. | Estimated | Standard | |
| Collaborate in the development or testing of new analytical software to ensure compliance with user requirements, specifications, or scope. | Estimated | Frontier | |
| Confer with other financial engineers or analysts on trading strategies, market dynamics, or trading system performance to inform development of quantitative techniques. | Estimated | Standard | |
| Collaborate with product development teams to research, model, validate, or implement quantitative structured solutions for new or expanded markets. | Estimated | Frontier | |
| Develop solutions to help clients hedge carbon exposure or risk. | Estimated | Frontier | |
| Interpret results of financial analysis procedures. | Observed | Efficient | |
| Maintain or modify all financial analytic models in use. | Estimated | Efficient | |
| Identify, track, or maintain metrics for trading system operations. | Estimated | Efficient |
Observed: scored from AI use recorded in the Anthropic Economic Index (June 2026 release), 4 of 21 tasks. Estimated: scored from the task's O*NET 30.3 work activity, 17 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
- 132,130
- Median annual wage
- $81,100
- Middle half of earners
- $61,290 to $110,410
- Projected change, 2024 to 2034
- +3.1%
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.
- Financial and Investment Analysts 79% skill overlap, about 8 months to move Exposure58
- Financial Risk Specialists 68% skill overlap, about 11 months to move Exposure58
- Statisticians 66% skill overlap, about 12 months to move Exposure62
- Credit Analysts 63% skill overlap, about 13 months to move Exposure60
- Personal Financial Advisors 62% skill overlap, about 14 months to move Exposure61
Skill overlap and transition time from the JobRoute role adjacency graph on O*NET 30.3 skills.
Questions about Financial Quantitative Analysts and AI
Will AI replace Financial Quantitative Analysts?
AI already handles 12 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 57 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 +3.1% from 2024 to 2034.
What is the AI exposure of Financial Quantitative Analysts?
57 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. 4 of the 21 task scores are observed in the Anthropic Economic Index (June 2026 release), and the other 17 are estimated from each task's O*NET work activity.
Which Financial Quantitative Analysts tasks can AI already do?
The tasks with the highest exposure are: Provide application or analytical support to researchers or traders on issues such as valuations or data; Prepare requirements documentation for use by software developers; Devise or apply independent models or tools to help verify results of analytical systems. They are three of the 12 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 Financial Quantitative Analysts, and what do they earn?
132,130 people in the United States, with a median annual wage of $81,100 (BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025). BLS Employment Projections expect a change of +3.1% 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: Financial Quantitative Analysts. 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/financial-quantitative-analysts
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