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Business & Finance · Updated Aug 2026

Budget Analysts

Examine budget estimates for completeness, accuracy, and conformance with procedures and regulations. Analyze budgeting and accounting reports.

JVS 2.0.0-phase4b
AI Exposure
68/100
High

How much of this occupation’s work can be materially affected by current AI systems.

Replacement Risk
58/100
Moderate

How likely exposure is to translate into reduced human demand.

Includes provisional estimates for AI adoption pressure and labour-market resilience. How this is measured

Evidence quality
Confidence84/100
Task coverage90%

Confidence reflects task coverage, mapping and capability-evidence quality, and how much of the score rests on provisional inputs.

Task-level evidence

What is driving the score?

Occupation scores are built from the task mix—not a single prediction about a job title.

JVS 2.0.0-phase4b
TaskImportanceAI impactExposure
Provide advice and technical assistance with cost analysis, fiscal allocation, and budget preparation.High
72
Review operating budgets to analyze trends affecting budget needs.High
73
Analyze monthly department budgeting and accounting reports to maintain expenditure controls.High
74
Compile and analyze accounting records and other data to determine the financial resources required to implement a program.High
73
Summarize budgets and submit recommendations for the approval or disapproval of funds requests.High
73
Consult with managers to ensure that budget adjustments are made in accordance with program changes.High
73
Direct the preparation of regular and special budget reports.High
74
Match appropriations for specific programs with appropriations for broader programs, including items for emergency funds.Medium
74
Testify before examining and fund-granting authorities, clarifying and promoting the proposed budgets.Medium
74
Examine budget estimates for completeness, accuracy, and conformance with procedures and regulations.High
40
Interpret budget directives and establish policies for carrying out directives.High
41
Most exposed

Where AI can do more

Routine, digitized, and highly repeatable tasks face the greatest pressure.

  1. Analyze monthly department budgeting and accounting reports to maintain expenditure controls.74
  2. Direct the preparation of regular and special budget reports.74
  3. Match appropriations for specific programs with appropriations for broader programs, including items for emergency funds.74
  4. Testify before examining and fund-granting authorities, clarifying and promoting the proposed budgets.74
Hardest to automate

Where people still matter

These tasks score lowest on automation feasibility—physical presence, judgement, accountability and real-world variability all resist end-to-end automation.

  1. Examine budget estimates for completeness, accuracy, and conformance with procedures and regulations.01
  2. Interpret budget directives and establish policies for carrying out directives.02
  3. Provide advice and technical assistance with cost analysis, fiscal allocation, and budget preparation.03
  4. Review operating budgets to analyze trends affecting budget needs.04
  5. Analyze monthly department budgeting and accounting reports to maintain expenditure controls.05
Where else this work leads

Related occupations

Occupations O*NET links to this one. Relatedness reflects shared work, not a claim that these roles are safer.

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Beyond AI capability

Adoption and labour-market outlook

Structural factors are kept separate from raw capability so you can see what actually resists automation. Adoption pressure and labour-market resilience are still provisional models—25% of this occupation’s replacement-risk weight rests on them.

Human dependency74
Physical dependency25
Adoption pressure55
Labour-market resilience56
Methodology & sources

O*NET 30.3 occupational data interpreted through the JobsVsAI capability, automation and structural-constraint models.

Confidence84/100
CalculatedAug 21, 2026
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