Will AI replace Budget Analysts?
AI reaches most of this job’s work.
64/100
Very high exposure
More exposed to AI than 94% of US workers.
- AI already used in
- 6% of the work
- As AI tools mature: up to
- 96% of the work
What the job involves
Examine budget estimates for completeness, accuracy, and conformance with procedures and regulations. Analyze budgeting and accounting reports.
Where AI reaches the work
The job’s main tasks, heaviest first, by how far AI reaches them.
Already happening(1)
- Provide advice and technical assistance with cost analysis, fiscal allocation, and budget preparation.
Within reach(11)
- Analyze monthly department budgeting and accounting reports to maintain expenditure controls.
- Examine budget estimates for completeness, accuracy, and conformance with procedures and regulations.
- Review operating budgets to analyze trends affecting budget needs.
- Direct the preparation of regular and special budget reports.
- Summarize budgets and submit recommendations for the approval or disapproval of funds requests.
and 6 more
Out of reach(1)
- Testify before examining and fund-granting authorities, clarifying and promoting the proposed budgets.
Also called
Budget Officer · Budget Coordinator · Budget Analyst · Cost Analyst · Fiscal Officer · Budget Engineer · Budget Examiner · Fiscal Agent
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What these numbers mean
The score is the share of this job’s work, weighted by how important and frequent each task is, that AI could do in half the time: tasks an AI model could do alone count in full, tasks that need software built on AI count half.
“AI already used” is the share of the work in tasks where people are recorded using AI today. “As AI tools mature” counts every task AI could halve, with or without extra software.
The percentile compares the score with every job’s, weighted by how many people in the US do each one. Exposure means AI could change how the work is done, not that the job goes away. These are estimates for the typical job, not predictions.
Sources
- O*NET 31.0 Database, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration
- GPTs are GPTs: Labor market impact potential of LLMs (task labels), Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin & Rock (2023), OpenAI and University of Pennsylvania
- Anthropic Economic Index: labor market impacts (task penetration), Anthropic
- Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (national and metropolitan areas), U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics