Administrative Law Judges, Adjudicators, and Hearing Officers
Conduct hearings to recommend or make decisions on claims concerning government programs or other government-related matters. Determine liability, sanctions, or penalties, or recommend the acceptance or rejection of claims or settlements.
Also known as: Adjudicator · Appeals Officer · Appeals Referee · Appeals Examiner · Appellate Conferee · Claims Adjudicator
This score estimates how exposed the tasks in a role are to current and near-term AI capabilities. It does not predict whether a specific person will lose a job.
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Most exposed task
Schedule hearings.
Automatable 75/100 exposure
Most durable task
Issue subpoenas and administer oaths in preparation for formal hearings.
Durable 15/100 exposure
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Highest structured exposure values in this role’s task mix — the work AI systems can already do most of.
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Schedule hearings.75
Augmentable tasks
Work where AI assists rather than replaces — the productivity frontier of this role.
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Research and analyze laws, regulations, policies, and precedent decisions to prepare for hearings and to determine conclusions.55
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Review and evaluate data on documents, such as claim applications, birth or death certificates, or physician or employer records.55
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Prepare written opinions and decisions.50
Most durable tasks
Lowest exposure — typically judgment, relationships, physical presence, or accountability. This is the human moat.
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Monitor and direct the activities of trials and hearings to ensure that they are conducted fairly and that courts administer justice while safeguarding the legal rights of all involved parties.15
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Issue subpoenas and administer oaths in preparation for formal hearings.15
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Conduct hearings to review and decide claims regarding issues, such as social program eligibility, environmental protection, or enforcement of health and safety regulations.20
Task exposure values and classifications are published, versioned estimates audited against the anchored rubric. This page reads them from the data release rather than generating them at request time. Bars show exposure contribution relative to this role’s task mix.
What this means
A score of 37 puts Administrative Law Judges, Adjudicators, and Hearing Officers in the third quartile of analyzed occupations. In practice, exposure this high is about the mix: 1 of 14 analyzed tasks lean automatable, 5 augmentable, and 8 durable. The useful question isn’t “will AI take this job” — it’s which tasks go first, which get faster, and where to reposition time. That’s what the personalized report maps against your actual week.
Lower-exposure adjacent roles
No adjacent role in the current data release is at least 10 points lower with ≥50% skill overlap — we don’t label anything “safer” unless the data supports it.
Labor-market context
- $117,860median wage
- 16,370employed
- 500annual openings
- -0.6%projected growth
Context only — labor statistics are not inputs to the exposure score. See methodology.
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How this score was calculated
The score is the plain average of the AI-exposure values of this role’s 14 analyzed tasks (equal task weights in this release — no hidden factors):
- Automatable 1 task, averaging 75/100 exposure
- Augmentable 5 tasks, averaging 51/100 exposure
- Durable 8 tasks, averaging 23/100 exposure
score = (1×75 + 5×51 + 8×23) ÷ 14 ≈ 37
Every task’s exposure value was scored against a published anchored rubric that scores tasks as actually performed — physical, in-person, and accountability requirements included (data release 2026.07.12-r2). The band (High) is a corpus quartile; the percentile is tie-aware across all 968 occupations.
FAQ — Administrative Law Judges, Adjudicators, and Hearing Officers
- Will AI replace Administrative Law Judges, Adjudicators, and Hearing Officers?
- This score cannot predict whether this occupation or any individual job will be replaced. It shows which tasks current and near-term AI can perform or accelerate, which tasks remain more durable, and where a worker can adapt. Employer decisions, demand, regulation, and how the role changes are outside the score.
- What does a score of 37 mean for a Administrative Law Judges, Adjudicators, and Hearing Officers?
- It means that, weighted across the 14 tasks we analyzed for this role, the task mix sits at 37 on a 0–100 exposure scale — in the third quartile of analyzed occupations. It measures task exposure to current and near-term AI capabilities, not the probability of losing a job.
- Which tasks in this role are most exposed to AI?
- The highest-exposure tasks are: Schedule hearings. Exposure comes from the published, rubric-scored data release rather than being generated when you open this page.
- Which parts of this job are most durable?
- The most durable responsibilities are: Monitor and direct the activities of trials and hearings to ensure that they are conducted fairly and that courts administer justice while safeguarding the legal rights of all involved parties; Issue subpoenas and administer oaths in preparation for formal hearings; Conduct hearings to review and decide claims regarding issues, such as social program eligibility, environmental protection, or enforcement of health and safety regulations. Durable tasks typically depend on judgment, relationships, physical presence, or accountability.
- Is this score personalized to me?
- No — this page shows the occupation-level baseline. Two people with the same title often do different work. The $9 personalized report recalculates the score from the tasks you actually do and builds a concrete 7/30/90-day plan around them.
Score version jr-v1 · data release 2026.07.12-r2 · updated 2026-07-13 · baseline mapping: 14 of 14 tasks carry source-level provenance · methodology