Jobs / Management and business operations / 13-1199.04
Business Continuity Planners
Develop, maintain, or implement business continuity and disaster recovery strategies and solutions, including risk assessments, business impact analyses, strategy selection, and documentation of business continuity and disaster recovery procedures. Plan, conduct, and debrief regular mock-disaster exercises to test the adequacy of existing plans and strategies, updating procedures and plans regularly. Act as a coordinator for continuity efforts after a disruption event.
- US jobs
- 1,087,090 (SOC 13-1199 group, "Business Operations Specialists, All Other")
- Median wage
- $83,050 a year
- Job family
- Management and business operations
Can agents do the work of business continuity planners?
We read the evidence for the whole job family, Management and business operations: Some tasks (first measured in the last 12 months)
Agents complete 20% or more of the tasks (or projects) on a direct benchmark.
Evidence: SOP-Bench, 72.4% of tasks completed.
4% of this occupation's work, by O*NET work activities, is measured by a direct benchmark (figures for the SOC 13-1199 group).
- 8%Develop contingency or emergency response plansNot measured
- 6%Develop marketing or promotional materialsNot measured
- 5%Investigate the environmental impact of industrial or development activitiesNot measured
- 5%Advise others on business or operational mattersNot measured
- 5%Analyze business or financial dataNot measured
- 4%Analyze business or financial risksNot measured
- 4%Purchase goods or servicesNot measured
- 4%Develop sustainable organizational or business policies or practicesNot measured
Benchmarks for the job family
These cover work in management and business operations, not always this occupation's tasks.
Direct evidence
Work benchmarks mapped primary to this family. They set the step when they report how many tasks agents complete.
Also relevant
These benchmarks cover part of this family's work, or have no result yet. They do not set its step.
- 45.9%Claude Opus 4.6 · 16 Mar 2026Emerging
- 64.8%Claude Code + Opus 5.5 (max) · 6 Oct 2026Strong
Context only
These benchmarks span many occupations, or they test how agents behave. They give context but do not set the step.
- 42.9%TTE-MatrixAgent + DeepSeek-V3.2 · 10 Nov 2025Emerging
Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- 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.
- Test documented disaster recovery strategies and plans.
- Develop disaster recovery plans for physical locations with critical assets, such as data centers.
- Establish, maintain, or test call trees to ensure appropriate communication during disaster.
- Identify opportunities for strategic improvement or mitigation of business interruption and other risks caused by business, regulatory, or industry-specific change initiatives.
- Maintain and update organization information technology applications and network systems blueprints.
- Review existing disaster recovery, crisis management, or business continuity plans.
- Analyze impact on, and risk to, essential business functions or information systems to identify acceptable recovery time periods and resource requirements.
- Write reports to summarize testing activities, including descriptions of goals, planning, scheduling, execution, results, analysis, conclusions, and recommendations.
- Create or administer training and awareness presentations or materials.
- Design or implement products and services to mitigate risk or facilitate use of technology-based tools and methods.
- Recommend or implement methods to monitor, evaluate, or enable resolution of safety, operations, or compliance interruptions.
Other job titles for this occupation (29)
Business Continuity Administrator (Business Continuity Admin) · Business Continuity Analyst · Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Consultant · Business Continuity Consultant · Business Continuity Coordinator · Business Continuity Professional · Business Continuity Specialist · Business System Consultant · Disaster Recovery Specialist · Service Continuity Manager · Business Change Advisor · Business Consultant · Business Continuity And Disaster Recovery Specialist · Business Continuity Planner · Business Initiatives Consultant · Business Professional · Change Management Analyst · Change Management Consultant · Change Management Project Manager (Change Management PM) · Change Management Specialist · Change Manager · Disaster Recovery Analyst · Organizational Change Consultant · Organizational Change Management Analyst · Organizational Change Management Specialist · Organizational Change Manager · Project Controls Specialist · Proposal Consultant · Proposal Development Consultant