All occupations › Office & administrative supportCan AI Replace Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants in 2026? High exposure. AI could handle about 78% of today's executive secretaries and executive administrative assistants tasks by 2036, and there is a 66% chance the number of jobs falls by a fifth or more. AI is likely to take over many tasks outright.
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Timeline Year 2030 Chance of 20%+ fewer jobs
22% 2030 · 66% 2036
One person could cover, 2036
3.6 roles
0% 50% 100% 2026 2028 2030 2032 2034 2036 2026: 29% 2027: 31% 2028: 35% 2029: 40% 2030: 46% 2031: 54% 2032: 61% 2033: 68% 2034: 73% 2035: 76% 2036: 78% 46% Share of today's tasks AI can perform 40 80 120 2026 2028 2030 2032 2034 2036 2026: 99 2027: 98 2028: 96 2029: 93 2030: 90 2031: 86 2032: 83 2033: 80 2034: 78 2035: 76 2036: 75 90 Headcount index, 2025 = 100 (dashed line) Your survival map Not every part of your job is at the same risk. Tap a number to see what to do about each task.
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1 Greet visitors and determine whether they should be given access to specific individuals. 2 Meet with individuals, special interest groups, and others on behalf of executives, committees, and boards of directors. 3 Manage and maintain executives' schedules. 4 Make travel arrangements for executives. 5 Answer phone calls and direct calls to appropriate parties or take messages. 6 Prepare invoices, reports, memos, letters, financial statements, and other documents, using word processing, spreadsheet, database, or presentation software. 7 Prepare responses to correspondence containing routine inquiries. 8 Open, sort, and distribute incoming correspondence, including faxes and email. 9 Read and analyze incoming memos, submissions, and reports to determine their significance and plan their distribution. Lower-risk jobs that use similar skills Your plan Ticks are saved in this browser only.
Try an AI tool on one task you'd normally do by hand: "Prepare invoices, reports, memos, letters, financial statements, and other documents, using word processing, spreadsheet, database, or presentation software". Learn one AI tool well enough to show it in an interview, for: "Manage and maintain executives' schedules". Get visibly better at your human core: "Greet visitors and determine whether they should be given access to specific individuals". Rewrite the top of your CV around judgment, people and decisions, not routine output. Read about a lower-risk move: Office Clerks, General. Lower-risk jobs with similar tasks Based on 22 O*NET tasks for "Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants" (SOC 43-6011.00). LLM alone: 38% of tasks; with AI tools: 92%. Projections are a model, not official statistics. How we calculate this · Data version 2026-10
