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title: "Will AI Replace Business Continuity Planners?"
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# Will AI Replace Business Continuity Planners? (2026)

**Short answer:** AI will reshape this job more than most, but BLS does not forecast it disappearing. The exposure is among the highest BLS measured, yet it still projects employment to grow faster than average.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics places business continuity planners in its very high AI exposure category, among the occupations most exposed to current AI. BLS projects employment to change by +3.9% over 2025–2035, against 3.5% for all occupations, with about 98,700 openings a year.

| Measure | Value | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| BLS relative AI exposure | Very high | BLS Employment Projections, AI exposure categories |
| NueCareer AI-resilience score | 16/100 | NueCareer analysis of O\*NET 31.0 Database |
| Projected employment change | +3.9% | BLS EP 2025–2035 |
| Openings a year | 98,700 | BLS EP 2025–2035 |
| Median annual wage | $83,050 | BLS OEWS May 2025 |

## Exposure categories

| BLS category | Occupations |
| --- | --- |
| Low | 203 |
| Moderate | 194 |
| High | 190 |
| Very high (this job) | 199 |

Exposure means AI could be or has been used to assist with or complete some of the work. BLS says it does not imply job loss, productivity gains, automation probability or wage effects. Method: https://www.bls.gov/emp/publications/ai-exposure-categories.htm

## What holds up

- Establishing and maintaining interpersonal relationships: 4.2/5 (O\*NET work activity importance)
- Face-to-face discussions: 3.9/5 (O\*NET work context)
- Training and teaching others: 3.8/5 (O\*NET work activity importance)
- Making decisions and solving problems: 4.2/5 (O\*NET work activity importance)

## What AI reaches first

- Documenting/recording information: 4.2/5 (O\*NET work activity importance)
- Processing information: 3.9/5 (O\*NET work activity importance)
- Working with computers: 4.5/5 (O\*NET work activity importance)
- Time spent sitting: 4.5/5 (O\*NET work context)

## O\*NET tasks

- Develop emergency management plans for recovery decision making and communications, continuity of critical departmental processes, or temporary shut-down of non-critical departments to ensure continuity of operation and governance.
- Establish, maintain, or test call trees to ensure appropriate communication during disaster.
- Identify opportunities for strategic improvement or mitigation of business interruption and other risks caused by business, regulatory, or industry-specific change initiatives.
- Review existing disaster recovery, crisis management, or business continuity plans.
- Analyze impact on, and risk to, essential business functions or information systems to identify acceptable recovery time periods and resource requirements.
- Write reports to summarize testing activities, including descriptions of goals, planning, scheduling, execution, results, analysis, conclusions, and recommendations.

## Related careers less exposed to AI than business continuity planners

- [Emergency Management Director](https://nuecareer.com/careers/emergency-management-director): BLS exposure High, median $93,330
- [Security Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/security-manager): BLS exposure High, median $106,660
- [Insurance Appraiser, Auto Damage](https://nuecareer.com/careers/insurance-appraiser-auto-damage): BLS exposure High, median $78,240
- [Fundraiser](https://nuecareer.com/careers/fundraiser): BLS exposure High, median $72,550; [Will AI replace fundraisers?](https://nuecareer.com/careers/will-ai-replace-fundraisers)
- [Compliance Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/compliance-manager): BLS exposure High, median $141,900
- [Labor Relations Specialist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/labor-relations-specialist): BLS exposure High, median $95,420

## FAQ

**Will AI replace business continuity planners?**

AI will reshape this job more than most, but BLS does not forecast it disappearing. The exposure is among the highest BLS measured, yet it still projects employment to grow faster than average. BLS defines exposure as AI being able to assist with or complete some of the work, and says it does not imply job loss, productivity gains or wage effects. BLS projects employment to change by +3.9% over 2025–2035, against 3.5% for all occupations, with about 98,700 openings a year.

**How exposed are business continuity planners to AI?**

BLS sorts 786 occupations into four relative categories: low, moderate, high and very high. Business Continuity Planners are in the very high category, alongside 198 other occupations. The categories combine five public measures of where AI could be or already is used, and they compare occupations with each other rather than giving an absolute risk.

**What parts of a business continuity planner's job can AI do?**

In O\*NET's description of the work, the parts that overlap most with what AI handles well are documenting/recording information, processing information and working with computers. The parts that hold up best are establishing and maintaining interpersonal relationships, face-to-face discussions and training and teaching others. These come from O\*NET ratings of how important each activity is to the job, read through NueCareer's AI-resilience method.

**Is being a business continuity planner a safe career from AI?**

On NueCareer's AI-resilience score, built from O\*NET work activities, business continuity planners score 16 out of 100, higher than 7% of the occupations we score. The job pays a median of $83,050 a year (BLS OEWS, May 2025). No job is fully safe from technological change, but the federal exposure category and the projected openings are the two numbers worth weighing.

**What careers similar to business continuity planners are less exposed to AI?**

Emergency Management Director (high exposure, $93,330 median), Security Manager (high exposure, $106,660 median), Insurance Appraiser, Auto Damage (high exposure, $78,240 median), Fundraiser (high exposure, $72,550 median). Each is in a lower BLS exposure category than business continuity planners, and most are listed by O\*NET as related to the work.

Full profile: https://nuecareer.com/careers/business-continuity-planner.

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This bank includes information from the O\*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). O\*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. NueCareer has transformed the data by joining it to BLS wage and projection data and deriving facet, personality-fit and AI-resilience scores. BLS and BEA data are public domain (17 U.S.C. §105).

O\*NET content is used under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). How these figures are sourced and derived: https://nuecareer.com/careers/methodology