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Parking Attendants
Park vehicles or issue tickets for customers in a parking lot or garage. May park or tend vehicles in environments such as a car dealership or rental car facility. May collect fee.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Take numbered tags from customers, locate vehicles, and deliver vehicles, or provide customers with instructions for locating vehicles.Mostly human for now
- 02Inspect vehicles to detect any damage.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Greet customers and open their car doors.Mostly human for now
- 04Issue ticket stubs or place numbered tags on windshields, log tags or attach tag to customers' keys, and give customers matching tags for locating parked vehicles.Mostly human for now
- 05Perform cash handling tasks, such as making change, balancing and recording cash drawer, or distributing tips.Mostly human for now
- 06Explain and calculate parking charges, collect fees from customers, and respond to customer complaints.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Park and retrieve automobiles for customers in parking lots, storage garages, or new car lots.Mostly human for now
- 08Provide customer assistance and information, such as giving directions or handling wheelchairs.Mostly human for now
- 09Keep parking areas clean and orderly to ensure that space usage is maximized.Mostly human for now
- 10Call emergency responders or the proper authorities and provide motorist assistance, such as giving directions or helping jump start a stalled vehicle.Mostly human for now
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job lossToo little dataNot enough work use was seen to measure. This does not mean the job is safe from AI.Anthropic, 2026
11%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 44% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 89% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Take numbered tags from customers, locate vehicles, and deliver vehicles, or provide customers with instructions for locating vehicles.
- Greet customers and open their car doors.
- Issue ticket stubs or place numbered tags on windshields, log tags or attach tag to customers' keys, and give customers matching tags for locating parked vehicles.