Records clerks and assistants

SOC 2020 code 4131

Records clerks and assistants maintain and update electronic and/or hard copy documents, correspondence and other records, and organise their storage.

Employees (UK)
139k
Median annual pay
£26,312
Exposure score ?
3.9/10 Low direct 3.9 · with tools 9.6
Wage exposure
£1.43bn

Higher exposure than 93% of the 379 UK occupations we scored.

What this score means

A handful of tasks in this role are touchable by AI, mostly around paperwork, scheduling and basic writing. The shape of the role stays the same - some parts just get faster.

If you're in this role, here's what to do now

Pick the two or three most repetitive things in your week and try an LLM on them. Most people underestimate what Claude or ChatGPT can already do for admin-shaped work. The time you get back is the dividend.

The tasks in this role, ranked by AI exposure

Below are the real tasks O*NET records for this occupation, sorted highest exposure first. "AI can do this" means a language model can already handle the task directly. "AI can help" means an LLM can assist but not replace. "Human work" means today's AI doesn't touch it. Importance is O*NET's 1–5 rating of how central each task is to the role.

17 of 25 tasks in this role are things an AI can already do today. Task list mapped via O*NET "Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks" (43-9041.00).

  1. Prepare insurance claim forms or related documents, and review them for completeness.

    AI can do thisimportance 4.8/5
  2. Pay small claims.

    AI can do thisimportance 4.7/5
  3. Post or attach information to claim file.

    AI can do thisimportance 4.6/5
  4. Transmit claims for payment or further investigation.

    AI can do thisimportance 4.6/5
  5. Review insurance policy to determine coverage.

    AI can do thisimportance 4.5/5
  6. Process, prepare, and submit business or government forms, such as submitting applications for coverage to insurance carriers.

    AI can do thisimportance 4.5/5
  7. Organize or work with detailed office or warehouse records, using computers to enter, access, search or retrieve data.

    AI can do thisimportance 4.4/5
  8. Correspond with insured or agent to obtain information or to inform them of account status or changes.

    AI can do thisimportance 4.3/5
  9. Review and verify data, such as age, name, address, and principal sum and value of property, on insurance applications and policies.

    AI can do thisimportance 4.2/5
  10. Compare information from application to criteria for policy reinstatement, and approve reinstatement when criteria are met.

    AI can do thisimportance 4.2/5
  11. Transcribe data to worksheets, and enter data into computer for use in preparing documents and adjusting accounts.

    AI can do thisimportance 4.1/5
  12. Obtain computer printout of policy cancellations, or retrieve cancellation cards from file.

    AI can do thisimportance 3.8/5
  13. Compose business correspondence for supervisors, managers, and professionals.

    AI can do thisimportance 3.7/5
  14. Notify insurance agent and accounting department of policy cancellation.

    AI can do thisimportance 3.6/5
  15. Calculate premiums, refunds, commissions, adjustments, or new reserve requirements, using insurance rate standards.

    AI can do this
  16. Enter insurance- and claims-related information into database systems.

    AI can do this
  17. Modify, update, or process existing policies and claims to reflect any change in beneficiary, amount of coverage, or type of insurance.

    AI can do this
  18. Calculate amount of claim.

    Human workimportance 4.6/5
  19. Contact insured or other involved persons to obtain missing information.

    Human workimportance 4.5/5
  20. Process and record new insurance policies and claims.

    Human workimportance 4.5/5
  21. Provide customer service, such as limited instructions on proceeding with claims or referrals to auto repair facilities or local contractors.

    Human workimportance 4.4/5
  22. Examine letters from policyholders or agents, original insurance applications, and other company documents to determine if changes are needed and effects of changes.

    Human workimportance 4.1/5
  23. Collect initial premiums and issue receipts.

    Human workimportance 4.1/5
  24. Interview clients and take their calls to provide customer service and obtain information on claims.

    Human workimportance 3.9/5
  25. Organize or work with detailed office or warehouse records, maintaining files for each policyholder, including policies that are to be reinstated or cancelled.

    Human work

Where a project with Alex usually starts for this role

These are the highest-importance tasks in this role that a language model can already handle directly. In a typical engagement the first wins come from building workflows around these, so they stop eating your team's time.

  1. Prepare insurance claim forms or related documents, and review them for completeness.

    O*NET importance 4.8/5 · labelled directly AI-automatable

  2. Pay small claims.

    O*NET importance 4.7/5 · labelled directly AI-automatable

  3. Post or attach information to claim file.

    O*NET importance 4.6/5 · labelled directly AI-automatable

Every role has three or four wedges like these. Finding them takes an hour. Turning them into a workflow your team actually uses takes a few days. Talk to Alex about a project →

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Methodology

This role's exposure score comes from Eloundou et al's 2023 GPT task labels, aggregated by O*NET importance within each O*NET-SOC code, then bridged to UK SOC 2020 via ISCO-08 (ONS Vol 2 coding index) and US SOC 2010 (BLS crosswalk). Employment and median pay come from ONS ASHE Table 14.7a, 2025 provisional. ASHE covers employees only, so self-employed workers are not counted.

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