AI exposure by occupation, O*NET 43-5061.00
Will AI replace Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks?
Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks: AI can already handle 10 of 17 tasks; the work mostly needs a frontier-tier model.
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Every task, scored
The 17 tasks O*NET 30.3 lists for Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks, from most to least exposed. 10 reach 60 or more, the level at which AI already handles a task.
| Task | AI exposure | Evidence | Model tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Examine documents, materials, or products and monitor work processes to assess completeness, accuracy, and conformance to standards and specifications. | Observed | Standard | |
| Compile information, such as production rates and progress, materials inventories, materials used, or customer information, so that status reports can be completed. | Estimated | Standard | |
| Compile and prepare documentation related to production sequences, transportation, personnel schedules, or purchase, maintenance, or repair orders. | Estimated | Efficient | |
| Contact suppliers to verify shipment details. | Estimated | Frontier | |
| Distribute production schedules or work orders to departments. | Estimated | Standard | |
| Arrange for delivery, assembly, or distribution of supplies or parts to expedite flow of materials and meet production schedules. | Estimated | Frontier | |
| Record production data, including volume produced, consumption of raw materials, or quality control measures. | Estimated | Efficient | |
| Provide documentation and information to account for delays, difficulties, or changes to cost estimates. | Estimated | Efficient | |
| Review documents, such as production schedules, work orders, or staffing tables, to determine personnel or materials requirements or material priorities. | Estimated | Efficient | |
| Confer with department supervisors or other personnel to assess progress and discuss needed changes. | Estimated | Frontier | |
| Revise production schedules when required due to design changes, labor or material shortages, backlogs, or other interruptions, collaborating with management, marketing, sales, production, or engineering. | Estimated | Standard | |
| Confer with establishment personnel, vendors, or customers to coordinate production or shipping activities and to resolve complaints or eliminate delays. | Estimated | Standard | |
| Plan production commitments or timetables for business units, specific programs, or jobs, using sales forecasts. | Estimated | Frontier | |
| Calculate figures, such as required amounts of labor or materials, manufacturing costs, or wages, using pricing schedules, adding machines, calculators, or computers. | Observed | Standard | |
| Establish and prepare product construction directions and locations and information on required tools, materials, equipment, numbers of workers needed, and cost projections. | Observed | Efficient | |
| Requisition and maintain inventories of materials or supplies necessary to meet production demands. | Estimated | Standard | |
| Maintain files, such as maintenance records, bills of lading, or cost reports. | Estimated | Efficient |
Observed: scored from AI use recorded in the Anthropic Economic Index (June 2026 release), 3 of 17 tasks. Estimated: scored from the task's O*NET 30.3 work activity, 14 of 17. 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
- 390,160
- Median annual wage
- $59,650
- Middle half of earners
- $47,820 to $75,000
- Projected change, 2024 to 2034
- -1.8%
Employment and wages: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, national. Projection: BLS Employment Projections 2024 to 2034.
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.
- Procurement Clerks 68% skill overlap, about 11 months to move Exposure70
- Order Clerks 60% skill overlap, about 14 months to move Exposure43
- Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks 60% skill overlap, about 14 months to move Exposure73
- Dispatchers, Except Police, Fire, and Ambulance 57% skill overlap, about 16 months to move Exposure55
- First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers 56% skill overlap, about 16 months to move Exposure38
Skill overlap and transition time from the JobRoute role adjacency graph on O*NET 30.3 skills.
Questions about Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks and AI
Will AI replace Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks?
AI already handles 10 of the 17 tasks O*NET lists for this occupation, at a task exposure of 60 or more, and the role's importance-weighted exposure is 61 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 -1.8% from 2024 to 2034.
What is the AI exposure of Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks?
61 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 17 task scores are observed in the Anthropic Economic Index (June 2026 release), and the other 14 are estimated from each task's O*NET work activity.
Which Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks tasks can AI already do?
The tasks with the highest exposure are: Examine documents, materials, or products and monitor work processes to assess completeness, accuracy, and conformance to standards and specifications; Compile information, such as production rates and progress, materials inventories, materials used, or customer information, so that status reports can be completed; Compile and prepare documentation related to production sequences, transportation, personnel schedules, or purchase, maintenance, or repair orders. They are three of the 10 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 Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks, and what do they earn?
390,160 people in the United States, with a median annual wage of $59,650 (BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025). BLS Employment Projections expect a change of -1.8% 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: Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks. 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/production-planning-and-expediting-clerks
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