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Business Intelligence Analysts

Produce financial and market intelligence by querying data repositories and generating periodic reports. Devise methods for identifying data patterns and trends in available information sources.

US jobs
262,440 (SOC 15-2051 group, "Data Scientists")
Median wage
$120,230 a year
Job family
Data and analytics

Can agents do the work of business intelligence analysts?

We read the evidence at the level of the job family, Data and analytics:

  • Task levelPartialOne direct benchmark, near its ceiling. On Spider 2.0-Snow, which asks for multi-step SQL against large business databases, the top agent reaches 96.7% execution accuracy, but the entry names no model. Adjacent spreadsheet tasks agree (83.1% on SpreadsheetBench). No benchmark in our collection tests open-ended analysis, where the right question is itself unclear.
  • Project levelPartialMixed, adjacent evidence. On MLE-bench, 75 offline Kaggle competitions, the best agent wins a medal in 64.4% of competitions. The Remote Labor Index includes data analysis projects; across all its projects, the best agent completed 15.8% to a standard a client would accept.

Benchmarks for this occupation

  • MLE-benchby OpenAIProject level · Any medal (%)
    64.4%Famou-Agent 2.0 (Gemini-3-Pro-Preview) · 23 Feb 2026
    Strong
  • Spider 2.0by HKU and Salesforce AI ResearchTask level · Execution accuracy (Spider 2.0-Snow)
    96.7%Genloop's Sentinel Agent v2 Pro · 1 Mar 2026
    Saturated

Benchmarks for the job family

These cover work in data and analytics, not always this occupation's tasks.

Typical tasks

From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.

  • Generate standard or custom reports summarizing business, financial, or economic data for review by executives, managers, clients, and other stakeholders.
  • Maintain or update business intelligence tools, databases, dashboards, systems, or methods.
  • Manage timely flow of business intelligence information to users.
  • Provide technical support for existing reports, dashboards, or other tools.
  • Identify and analyze industry or geographic trends with business strategy implications.
  • Document specifications for business intelligence or information technology reports, dashboards, or other outputs.
  • Create business intelligence tools or systems, including design of related databases, spreadsheets, or outputs.
  • Collect business intelligence data from available industry reports, public information, field reports, or purchased sources.
  • Disseminate information regarding tools, reports, or metadata enhancements.
  • Conduct or coordinate tests to ensure that intelligence is consistent with defined needs.
  • Synthesize current business intelligence or trend data to support recommendations for action.
  • Analyze competitive market strategies through analysis of related product, market, or share trends.
Other job titles for this occupation (27)

Business Analyst · Business Intelligence Analyst (BI Analyst) · Business Intelligence Consultant (BI Consultant) · Business Intelligence Coordinator (BI Coordinator) · Business Intelligence Specialist (BI Specialist) · Competitive Intelligence Analyst · Intelligence Analyst · Market Intelligence Analyst · Market Intelligence Consultant · Strategic Business and Technology Intelligence Consultant · Analytical Data Miner · Business Consultant · Business Data Analyst · Business Database Analyst · Business Information Analyst · Business Intelligence Engineer · Business Process Analyst · Business Systems Analyst · Business Systems Consultant · Business Technology Consultant · Data Analyst · EDI Analyst (Electronic Data Interchange Analyst) · Information Analyst · Information Specialist · Marketing Database Analyst · Reporting Analyst · Reports Analyst