As of June 2026, Business Continuity Planners has an AI-exposure score of 64/100 (High exposure) on the AI-Safe Careers index, blending O*NET tasks, the Anthropic Economic Index, the Penn/OpenAI study, and BLS data. This is an estimate of task exposure, not a prediction of job loss.
Business Continuity Planners
More exposed than 78% of the roles we track. Median pay ~US$83,050. About 108,200 projected openings a year (BLS 2024–34 — growth plus replacement).
Pay & demand figures are US medians (BLS, in USD) — your local figures will differ. Your exposure score applies broadly.
How you compare to similar Business & Finance roles
Your tasks, by AI exposure
- Maintain and update organization information technology applications and network systems blueprints.
- Analyze corporate intelligence data to identify trends, patterns, or warnings indicating threats to security of people, assets, information, or infrastructure.
- Develop disaster recovery plans for physical locations with critical assets, such as data centers.
- Write reports to summarize testing activities, including descriptions of goals, planning, scheduling, execution, results, analysis, conclusions, and recommendations.
- Analyze impact on, and risk to, essential business functions or information systems to identify acceptable recovery time periods and resource requirements.
- Create business continuity and disaster recovery budgets.
- Create scenarios to reestablish operations from various types of business disruptions.
- Recommend or implement methods to monitor, evaluate, or enable resolution of safety, operations, or compliance interruptions.
- Conduct or oversee collection of corporate intelligence to avoid fraud, financial crime, cyber attack, terrorism, and infrastructure failure.
- Develop emergency management plans for recovery decision making and communications, continuity of critical departmental processes, or temporary shut-down of non-critical departments to ensure continuity of operation and governance.
- Conduct or oversee contingency plan integration and operation.
- Review existing disaster recovery, crisis management, or business continuity plans.
- Attend professional meetings, read literature, and participate in training or other educational offerings to keep abreast of new developments and technologies related to disaster recovery and business continuity.
- Establish, maintain, or test call trees to ensure appropriate communication during disaster.
- Create or administer training and awareness presentations or materials.
- Prepare reports summarizing operational results, financial performance, or accomplishments of specified objectives, goals, or plans.
- Design or implement products and services to mitigate risk or facilitate use of technology-based tools and methods.
- Interpret government regulations and applicable codes to ensure compliance.
- Identify opportunities for strategic improvement or mitigation of business interruption and other risks caused by business, regulatory, or industry-specific change initiatives.
- Test documented disaster recovery strategies and plans.
No durable tasks identified for this role — its real, individually-assessed tasks consistently read as augmentable (65%).
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Business Continuity Planners — median pay by US state (BLS OEWS, USD)
Median annual wage, in USD. US national: US$83,050. More states are being added.