First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers

Most exposed tasks

Highest structured exposure values in this role’s task mix — the work AI systems can already do most of.

• Research, compile, and prepare reports, manuals, correspondence, or other information required by management or governmental agencies.90
• Maintain records pertaining to inventory, personnel, orders, supplies, or machine maintenance.90
• Review records or reports pertaining to activities such as production, payroll, or shipping to verify details, monitor work activities, or evaluate performance.88

Augmentable tasks

Work where AI assists rather than replaces — the productivity frontier of this role.

• Participate in the work of subordinates to facilitate productivity or to overcome difficult aspects of work.55

Most durable tasks

Lowest exposure — typically judgment, relationships, physical presence, or accountability. This is the human moat.

The current data release does not distinguish durable tasks for this role.

Task exposure values and classifications come from the versioned data release — they are structured data, not model output. Bars show exposure contribution relative to this role’s task mix.

What this means

A score of 76 puts First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers in the most-exposed quarter of analyzed occupations. In practice, exposure this high is about the mix: 19 of 20 analyzed tasks lean automatable, 1 augmentable, and 0 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.

One next move: audit how much of your week sits in the exposed tasks above — then shift time toward the durable set or investigate the adjacent roles below.

Lower-exposure adjacent roles

Shown only when the target is at least 10 points lower under the same score version and skill overlap is at least 50%. These are adjacent roles with lower task exposure — not guaranteed “safe careers”.

Labor-market context

• $69,500median wage
• 1,436,680employed
• 144,500annual openings
• -0.3%projected growth

Context only — labor statistics are not inputs to the exposure score. See methodology.

Related roles

Adjacent by skills or family — no exposure claim implied.

• First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers 59
• First-Line Supervisors of Material-Moving Machine and Vehicle Operators 68
• First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers 43
• Desktop Publishers 75
• Gambling Cage Workers 78
• Postal Service Mail Sorters, Processors, and Processing Machine Operators 74

FAQ — First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers

What does a score of 76 mean for a First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers?

It means that, weighted across the 20 tasks we analyzed for this role, the task mix sits at 76 on a 0–100 exposure scale — in the most-exposed quarter 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: Research, compile, and prepare reports, manuals, correspondence, or other information required by management or governmental agencies; Maintain records pertaining to inventory, personnel, orders, supplies, or machine maintenance; Review records or reports pertaining to activities such as production, payroll, or shipping to verify details, monitor work activities, or evaluate performance. Exposure is scored per task from structured data, not generated by a language model.

Which parts of this job are most durable?

The current data release does not distinguish durable tasks for this role.

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.