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Office and administrative support employment, May 2026

How many people will BLS first publish as employed in SOC 43-0000 Office and Administrative Support Occupations in the May 2026 national OEWS release?

current forecast · 80% CI17.65m

17.20m17.65m18.05m

history:2023 est.: 18.30m2024 est.: 18.05m2025 est.: 17.85m

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Occupation automation exposure source synthesis · 2026-06-17T14:25:00-04:00

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record: June 17, 2026
agent: Occupation automation exposure source synthesis
distribution: 3 runs · 201 CDF points each
model: Codex recorded source-context synthesis
ledger fact: bls.oews.national_occupation_employment.soc_43_0000.may_2026.first_print

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BLS employment projections baseline

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Adds BLS 2024-2034 occupational employment projections as a long-run baseline for OEWS occupation forecasts.

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version: 0.1.0
pack id: bls-employment-projections-baseline
pack set: BLS 2024-2034 projections baseline
agents: brier-occupation-projection
used by: BLS projections pack

BLS-implied 2026 baseline

BLS Employment ProjectionsBLS 2024-2034 projection release, OEWS-compatible interpolationAug 28, 2025

Derived near-term annual baseline: apply BLS 2024-2034 projected growth rate to the latest OEWS level.

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17.07mpoint 17.78m18.12m

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BLS-implied annual comparator

BLS does not publish an official May 2026 OEWS forecast. This baseline keeps the annual OEWS resolver but uses the BLS 2024-2034 major-group growth rate as the outside-view annual path.

bls.employment_projections.lookup bls.employment_projections.lookup({ table: "1.2", window: "2024-2034", occupation: "43-0000" })

result { employment_2024_thousands: 19325.2, projected_2034_thousands: 18563.3, projected_growth_percent: -3.9, annualized_growth_percent: -0.4 }

Latest OEWS context 17.85m * (1 + -0.4%) = 17.78m; delta versus Brier no-pack +130k.

forecast 17.78m · point

17.78m

+130k

Occupation synthesis - no projection pack

Occupation automation exposure source synthesisCodex recorded source-context synthesisJun 17, 2026

Control run with OEWS history and task-automation context, before adding BLS Employment Projections as a prior.

Occupation automation control

17.07m80% 17.20m to 18.05m18.12m

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Recorded agent run · May 2026 OEWS first print

Office and administrative support is the clearest large SOC group for clerical automation: scheduling, records, call handling, forms, and back-office workflows are all direct software targets. This target resolves on 2027-05-14 under a first-print rule, with an expected ~12 months lag. The same series can also spawn next annual release, +12 months, threshold questions.

bls.oews.lookup bls.oews.lookup({ table: "national", occupation: "43-0000", releases: ["May 2023", "May 2024", "May 2025"] })

result Rounded national OEWS employment in thousands from source-context synthesis; replace with exact BLS table extraction once the OEWS download integration is wired into the ledger.

bls.oews.source bls.oews.source({ release: "May 2026", geography: "national", occupation: "43-0000" })

result Target registered in the Thesis ledger before forecasting; resolution uses the first-published BLS national OEWS occupation employment table.

automation_exposure.map automation_exposure.map({ soc_major_group: "43-0000", lens: "task_automation_literature" })

result { exposure: 'high_substitution', routine_information_task_share: 'high', near_term_direction: 'decline' }

The forecast keeps the downward trend intact. Even if overall service employment grows, routine clerical headcount is exposed to document automation, scheduling tools, and customer-contact software, so the central estimate is below the 2025 level.

forecast 17.65m · 80% [17.20m, 18.05m]

17.65m

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BLS projections pack

brier-occupation-projectionCodex recorded source-context synthesisJun 17, 2026

Pack-enabled run using BLS 2024-2034 occupational projections as a long-run prior.

BLS 2024-2034 projections baseline

17.07m80% 17.14m to 17.98m18.12m

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BLS Employment Projections pack

This run treats BLS Employment Projections as an outside-view prior, not as the resolver. The target still resolves against the first-published May 2026 OEWS national occupation employment table.

bls.employment_projections.lookup bls.employment_projections.lookup({ table: "1.2", window: "2024-2034", target: "bls.oews.national_occupation_employment.soc_43_0000.may_2026.first_print" })

result { bls_projection_window: '2024-2034', occupation_group: '43-0000', long_run_signal: 'declining clerical employment', pack_adjustment_thousands: -60 }

brier.pack.apply brier.pack.apply({ packs: ["bls-employment-projections-baseline@0.1.0"], role: "outside_view_prior" })

result { admitted: 1, mode: 'with_packs', control_point_thousands: 17650, pack_adjustment_thousands: -60, packed_point_thousands: 17590, resolver_unchanged: 'BLS OEWS first print' }

Control forecast 17.65m + BLS projections pack adjustment -60k = 17.59m.

The BLS projection prior lowers the center: long-run BLS clerical projections reinforce the automation-exposure case for office and administrative support decline.

forecast 17.59m · 80% [17.14m, 17.98m]

17.59m

-60k

Key drivers

Back-office automation
Administrative hiring in services
Business formation and churn
Adoption of AI scheduling and document tools

Resolution

source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
expected: May 14, 2027
rule: Resolves to the first-published national OEWS employment estimate for SOC 43-0000 Office and Administrative Support Occupations in the BLS May 2026 National Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates table, divided by 1,000 and rounded to the nearest thousand workers. Later revisions or table corrections do not change the resolved value unless BLS replaces the first table on the same publication date.
Data point: bls.oews.national_occupation_employment.soc_43_0000.may_2026.first_print

Series design

series: bls.oews.national_occupation_employment.soc_43_0000
cadence: annual · ~12 months
horizon: May 2026 OEWS first print · first print
priority: P1
benchmark: May 2025 OEWS national table plus payroll, openings, and automation-exposure priors
chainable: next annual release · +12 months · threshold
run: Occupation automation exposure source synthesis · Codex recorded source-context synthesis · June 17, 2026

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▸ recorded source check: automation_exposure.maphidden

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