Parking Enforcement Workers

Most exposed tasks

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

• Enter and retrieve information pertaining to vehicle registration, identification, and status, using hand-held computers.90
• Collect coins deposited in meters.77
• Prepare and maintain required records, including logs of parking enforcement activities, and records of contested citations.76

Augmentable tasks

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

• Patrol an assigned area by vehicle or on foot to ensure public compliance with existing parking ordinance.59
• Make arrangements for illegally parked or abandoned vehicles to be towed, and direct tow-truck drivers to the correct vehicles.59
• Respond to and make radio dispatch calls regarding parking violations and complaints.58

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 62 puts Parking Enforcement Workers in the most-exposed quarter of analyzed occupations. In practice, exposure this high is about the mix: 11 of 20 analyzed tasks lean automatable, 9 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

• $46,730median wage
• 9,050employed
• 700annual openings
• -2.4%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.

• Security Guards 61
• Railroad Conductors and Yardmasters 58
• Highway Maintenance Workers 34
• Dispatchers, Except Police, Fire, and Ambulance 86
• Traffic Technicians 62
• Transportation Vehicle, Equipment and Systems Inspectors, Except Aviation 41

FAQ — Parking Enforcement Workers

What does a score of 62 mean for a Parking Enforcement Workers?

It means that, weighted across the 20 tasks we analyzed for this role, the task mix sits at 62 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: Enter and retrieve information pertaining to vehicle registration, identification, and status, using hand-held computers; Collect coins deposited in meters; Prepare and maintain required records, including logs of parking enforcement activities, and records of contested citations. 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.