Data entry administrators
Data entry administrators enter a variety of information into databases using various software packages and assist colleagues in retrieving information.
- Employees (UK)
- 16k
- Median annual pay
- £26,534
- Exposure score ?
- 7.9/10 High 9.1/10 Very high strict reading, with tools is 9.1/10 with-tools reading, strict is 7.9/10
- Wage exposure
- £335m £386m
Higher exposure than 100% of the 379 UK occupations we scored.
What this score means.
Most of the routine work in this role can already be done by a capable model. The role does not disappear, but its shape changes, and one person can credibly cover the work of several.
If you are in this role
Stop spending time on what a model can do well. Your value is judgement, relationships and the parts of the work that need you in the room. Redesign the workflow around that before someone else does it for you.
Almost every routine task in this role is within reach of today's models. Roles like this are being rebuilt, usually not by disappearing but by one person using AI to produce what several did.
If you are in this role
Be the person doing the rebuilding. People who learn to run this kind of work with AI become very valuable, and the ones who wait tend to have the change made for them.
Where the work usually starts.
These are the most important tasks a language model can already handle directly. In a typical engagement the first wins come from building workflows around them, so they stop eating the team's time.
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Locate and correct data entry errors, or report them to supervisors.
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Compile, sort, and verify the accuracy of data before it is entered.
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Compare data with source documents, or re-enter data in verification format to detect errors.
These are the most important tasks AI can already handle when paired with the right tools and context. The first wins usually come from building workflows around them. That is the difference between a model that could do the job and one that actually does it inside your business.
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Locate and correct data entry errors, or report them to supervisors.
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Compile, sort, and verify the accuracy of data before it is entered.
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Compare data with source documents, or re-enter data in verification format to detect errors.
Every role has three or four places like these. Finding them takes an hour. Turning them into a workflow your team actually uses takes a few days.
Every task in the role.
Every O*NET task for this occupation, split by what AI can do unaided and what still needs a person. Importance is O*NET's 1 to 5 rating of how central each task is.
Tasks via O*NET "Data Entry Keyers" (43-9021.00).
What AI can already do
7 of 9 tasks, unaided
Locate and correct data entry errors, or report them to supervisors.
Compile, sort, and verify the accuracy of data before it is entered.
Compare data with source documents, or re-enter data in verification format to detect errors.
Store completed documents in appropriate locations.
Select materials needed to complete work assignments.
Maintain logs of activities and completed work.
Resolve garbled or indecipherable messages, using cryptographic procedures and equipment.
What still needs a person
2 of 9 tasks
Read source documents such as canceled checks, sales reports, or bills, and enter data in specific data fields or onto tapes or disks for subsequent entry, using keyboards or scanners.
Load machines with required input or output media, such as paper, cards, disks, tape, or Braille media.
Tasks via O*NET "Data Entry Keyers" (43-9021.00).
What AI can already do
8 of 9 tasks, with tools
Locate and correct data entry errors, or report them to supervisors.
Compile, sort, and verify the accuracy of data before it is entered.
Compare data with source documents, or re-enter data in verification format to detect errors.
Read source documents such as canceled checks, sales reports, or bills, and enter data in specific data fields or onto tapes or disks for subsequent entry, using keyboards or scanners.
Store completed documents in appropriate locations.
Select materials needed to complete work assignments.
Maintain logs of activities and completed work.
Resolve garbled or indecipherable messages, using cryptographic procedures and equipment.
What still needs a person
1 of 9 tasks
Load machines with required input or output media, such as paper, cards, disks, tape, or Braille media.
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What it means for your sector.
This role's score comes from Eloundou et al's 2023 task labels, weighted by O*NET importance within each O*NET-SOC code, then bridged to UK SOC 2020 through ISCO-08 (the ONS coding index) and US SOC 2010 (the BLS crosswalk). Employment and median pay come from ONS ASHE Table 14.7a, 2025 provisional, which covers employees only.
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