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title: "Will AI Replace Parking Attendants? (2026)"
description: "BLS rates parking attendants' exposure to AI as moderate. What that means, which parts of the work AI touches, and the 2025–2035 outlook (+2.0% projected)."
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last-updated: "2026-10-15T08:19:32.066Z"
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# Will AI Replace Parking Attendants? (2026)

**Short answer:** Unlikely. BLS rates the work's exposure to AI as moderate, below the middle of the pack, and still projects employment to grow.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics places parking attendants in its moderate AI exposure category, below the middle of the pack: some of the work overlaps with what AI can do, much of it does not. BLS projects employment to change by +2.0% over 2025–2035, against 3.5% for all occupations, with about 16,400 openings a year.

| Measure | Value | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| BLS relative AI exposure | Moderate | BLS Employment Projections, AI exposure categories |
| NueCareer AI-resilience score | 51/100 | NueCareer analysis of O\*NET 31.0 Database |
| Projected employment change | +2.0% | BLS EP 2025–2035 |
| Openings a year | 16,400 | BLS EP 2025–2035 |
| Median annual wage | $35,150 | BLS OEWS May 2025 |

## Exposure categories

| BLS category | Occupations |
| --- | --- |
| Low | 203 |
| Moderate (this job) | 194 |
| High | 190 |
| Very high | 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: 4.3/5 (O\*NET work context)
- Performing for or working directly with the public: 3.8/5 (O\*NET work activity importance)
- Hands-on work with tools and objects: 4.2/5 (O\*NET work context)
- Dealing with the public: 4.3/5 (O\*NET work context)

## What AI reaches first

- Repetitive motions: 3.8/5 (O\*NET work context)
- Being exact or highly accurate: 4.0/5 (O\*NET work context)
- Communicating with supervisors, peers, or subordinates: 3.6/5 (O\*NET work activity importance)

## O\*NET tasks

- Explain and calculate parking charges, collect fees from customers, and respond to customer complaints.
- Keep parking areas clean and orderly to ensure that space usage is maximized.
- Provide customer assistance and information, such as giving directions or handling wheelchairs.
- Inspect vehicles to detect any damage.
- Take numbered tags from customers, locate vehicles, and deliver vehicles, or provide customers with instructions for locating vehicles.
- Issue ticket stubs or place numbered tags on windshields, log tags or attach tag to customers' keys, and give customers matching tags for locating parked vehicles.

## Related careers less exposed to AI than parking attendants

- [Automotive and Watercraft Service Attendant](https://nuecareer.com/careers/automotive-and-watercraft-service-attendant): BLS exposure Low, median $35,670; [Will AI replace automotive and watercraft service attendants?](https://nuecareer.com/careers/will-ai-replace-automotive-and-watercraft-service-attendants)
- [Industrial Truck and Tractor Operator](https://nuecareer.com/careers/industrial-truck-and-tractor-operator): BLS exposure Low, median $46,420; [Will AI replace forklift operators?](https://nuecareer.com/careers/will-ai-replace-forklift-operators)
- [Cleaner of Vehicles and Equipment](https://nuecareer.com/careers/cleaner-of-vehicles-and-equipment): BLS exposure Low, median $35,830; [Will AI replace cleaners of vehicles and equipment?](https://nuecareer.com/careers/will-ai-replace-cleaners-of-vehicles-and-equipment)
- [Laborer and Freight, Stock, and Material Mover, Hand](https://nuecareer.com/careers/laborer-and-freight-stock-and-material-mover-hand): BLS exposure Low, median $40,240; [Will AI replace warehouse workers?](https://nuecareer.com/careers/will-ai-replace-warehouse-workers)
- [Packer and Packager, Hand](https://nuecareer.com/careers/packer-and-packager-hand): BLS exposure Low, median $36,280; [Will AI replace packers and packagers?](https://nuecareer.com/careers/will-ai-replace-packers-and-packagers)
- [Refuse and Recyclable Material Collector](https://nuecareer.com/careers/refuse-and-recyclable-material-collector): BLS exposure Low, median $49,690; [Will AI replace garbage collectors?](https://nuecareer.com/careers/will-ai-replace-garbage-collectors)

## FAQ

**Will AI replace parking attendants?**

Unlikely. BLS rates the work's exposure to AI as moderate, below the middle of the pack, and still projects employment to grow. 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 +2.0% over 2025–2035, against 3.5% for all occupations, with about 16,400 openings a year.

**How exposed are parking attendants to AI?**

BLS sorts 786 occupations into four relative categories: low, moderate, high and very high. Parking Attendants are in the moderate category, alongside 193 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 parking attendant's job can AI do?**

In O\*NET's description of the work, the parts that overlap most with what AI handles well are repetitive motions, being exact or highly accurate and communicating with supervisors, peers, or subordinates. The parts that hold up best are face-to-face discussions, performing for or working directly with the public and hands-on work with tools and objects. 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 parking attendant a safe career from AI?**

On NueCareer's AI-resilience score, built from O\*NET work activities, parking attendants score 51 out of 100, higher than 63% of the occupations we score. The job pays a median of $35,150 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 parking attendants are less exposed to AI?**

Automotive and Watercraft Service Attendant (low exposure, $35,670 median), Industrial Truck and Tractor Operator (low exposure, $46,420 median), Cleaner of Vehicles and Equipment (low exposure, $35,830 median), Laborer and Freight, Stock, and Material Mover, Hand (low exposure, $40,240 median). Each is in a lower BLS exposure category than parking attendants, and most are listed by O\*NET as related to the work.

Full profile: https://nuecareer.com/careers/parking-attendant.

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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