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Will AI replace financial analysts?

Part of the work, not the whole job. AI could take on about 53% of the working time in a typical financial analyst job today. The other 47% still needs a person.

22 responsibilities · a typical financial analyst job

47% of the work still needs a person.

Still needs a person: 47% of the timeAI could take on: 53%

Evidence range: 49 to 53%. It runs between what has been measured or rated for each responsibility and our figure, which also follows industry-wide research.

Median pay $102,740 a year in the U.S. (BLS, May 2025).

Still needs a person

  • Advise clients on raising capital
  • Visit companies to assess them as investments
  • Work with lawyers and accountants on projects
  • Advise clients on restructuring debt

AI can do or help with

  • Analyze struggling companies and recommend fixes AI helps
  • Analyze green building investments AI helps
  • Build client presentations AI helps
  • Build charts and graphs for reports AI can do it
  • Build financial models to solve problems AI helps
  • Compare the quality of securities in an industry AI helps

The biggest responsibilities of each kind. "AI helps" means AI takes on part of the work, or most of it with a person checking what it produces. See all 22, with the reason for each and the cost of handing them to AI.

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Questions people ask

Will AI replace financial analysts?

Part of the work, not the whole job. AI could take on about 53% of the working time in a typical financial analyst job today. The other 47% still needs a person. That is a split of the work, not a forecast of jobs lost.

Which parts of the job can AI do?

The biggest ones AI can do or help with: analyze struggling companies and recommend fixes, analyze green building investments, build client presentations, build charts and graphs for reports, build financial models to solve problems, compare the quality of securities in an industry.

Which parts still need a person?

The biggest ones: advise clients on raising capital, visit companies to assess them as investments, work with lawyers and accountants on projects, advise clients on restructuring debt.

How is this measured?

The U.S. Department of Labor lists 26 responsibilities for this job (O*NET 31.0), and the split covers the 22 people in it do today. Each is scored on 4 questions: can AI do it, does it get it right, must a person sign for it, and do people need to deal with a real person. The split is weighted by how much of the job each responsibility takes up. The evidence range is 49 to 53%. It runs between what has been measured or rated for each responsibility and our figure, which also follows industry-wide research. Scores version 0.5.2, updated September 30, 2026.

Responsibilities from O*NET 31.0 (U.S. Department of Labor). Pay from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, May 2025. Scores are calibrated to published research and updated every month. How it works.

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