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title: "Will AI Replace Management Analysts? (2026)"
description: "BLS rates management analysts' exposure to AI as very high. What that means, which parts of the work AI touches, and the 2025–2035 outlook (+10.1%…"
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# Will AI Replace Management Analysts? (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 management analysts in its very high AI exposure category, among the occupations most exposed to current AI. BLS projects employment to change by +10.1% over 2025–2035, against 3.5% for all occupations, with about 94,100 openings a year.

| Measure | Value | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| BLS relative AI exposure | Very high | BLS Employment Projections, AI exposure categories |
| NueCareer AI-resilience score | 28/100 | NueCareer analysis of O\*NET 31.0 Database |
| Projected employment change | +10.1% | BLS EP 2025–2035 |
| Openings a year | 94,100 | BLS EP 2025–2035 |
| Median annual wage | $101,860 | 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

- Face-to-face discussions: 4.7/5 (O\*NET work context)
- Establishing and maintaining interpersonal relationships: 4.7/5 (O\*NET work activity importance)
- Resolving conflicts and negotiating with others: 4.0/5 (O\*NET work activity importance)
- Coaching and developing others: 3.8/5 (O\*NET work activity importance)

## What AI reaches first

- Processing information: 4.2/5 (O\*NET work activity importance)
- Documenting/recording information: 4.1/5 (O\*NET work activity importance)
- Analyzing data or information: 4.4/5 (O\*NET work activity importance)
- Getting information: 4.7/5 (O\*NET work activity importance)

## O\*NET tasks

- Gather and organize information on problems or procedures.
- Confer with personnel concerned to ensure successful functioning of newly implemented systems or procedures.
- Analyze data gathered and develop solutions or alternative methods of proceeding.
- Document findings of study and prepare recommendations for implementation of new systems, procedures, or organizational changes.
- Plan study of work problems and procedures, such as organizational change, communications, information flow, integrated production methods, inventory control, or cost analysis.
- Interview personnel and conduct on-site observation to ascertain unit functions, work performed, and methods, equipment, and personnel used.

## FAQ

**Will AI replace management analysts?**

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 +10.1% over 2025–2035, against 3.5% for all occupations, with about 94,100 openings a year.

**How exposed are management analysts to AI?**

BLS sorts 786 occupations into four relative categories: low, moderate, high and very high. Management Analysts 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 management analyst's job can AI do?**

In O\*NET's description of the work, the parts that overlap most with what AI handles well are processing information, documenting/recording information and analyzing data or information. The parts that hold up best are face-to-face discussions, establishing and maintaining interpersonal relationships and resolving conflicts and negotiating with 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 management analyst a safe career from AI?**

On NueCareer's AI-resilience score, built from O\*NET work activities, management analysts score 28 out of 100, higher than 20% of the occupations we score. The job pays a median of $101,860 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.

Full profile: https://nuecareer.com/careers/management-analyst.

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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