Data · Nashville Cost of Manual Work · Wages for May 2025
Every 10 hours a week one office employee spends retyping, copying and routing costs about $13,031 a year in wages, at the Nashville metro mean of $25.06 an hour for office and administrative support. Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
We will tell you which of those hours an AI agent or an integration can take first, and what a person still approves.
Yearly cost is people × hours a week × 52 weeks × hourly wage. It counts wages only, not benefits, payroll taxes or the cost of errors, so the real figure is higher. The hours are your estimate; in a discovery engagement we measure them before and after, so the saving is a number you can check.
Tasks are the core tasks O*NET lists for each occupation, ranked by importance. "Showing up in AI work use" marks tasks that Anthropic's Economic Index finds both feasible for AI and present in work-related Claude use; the exposure figure is Anthropic's observed-exposure score for the occupation.
Sources: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN; O*NET 31.0 Database (US Department of Labor) and Anthropic Economic Index, labor market impacts. Retrieved October 27, 2026. Wages refresh yearly. Download the data (JSON).
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