Jobs / Office and administrative support / 15-1299.03
Document Management Specialists
Implement and administer enterprise-wide document management systems and related procedures that allow organizations to capture, store, retrieve, share, and destroy electronic records and documents.
- US jobs
- 435,370 (SOC 15-1299 group, "Computer Occupations, All Other")
- Median wage
- $116,580 a year
- Job family
- Office and administrative support
Can agents do the work of document management specialists?
We read the evidence at the level of the job family, Office and administrative support:
- Task levelStrongOn computer-use and office-task benchmarks, top agents pass most tasks: 90.2% on OSWorld-Verified (humans: 72.4%), 83.1% on SpreadsheetBench, and 63.3% on WorkArena L1 under the standard protocol. Limits: many top entries are self-submitted and not re-run by the maintainers, and on TheAgentCompany's multi-step workplace tasks the best agent resolves 42.9%.
- Project levelPartialOnly adjacent evidence. OpenAI reports that GPT-5.5's GDPval deliverables won or tied against professionals' work in 84.9% of comparisons, but GDPval tasks are one-shot and fully specified. No benchmark in our collection tests multi-day administrative work, such as running a calendar or a purchasing process.
Benchmarks for the job family
These cover work in office and administrative support, not always this occupation's tasks.
- 1846 EloClaude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback) · 23 Sep 2026Unrated
- OSWorld-Verifiedby HKU, Salesforce AI Research, Carnegie Mellon University and University of Waterloo90.2%Intelligence-Indeed Agent · 25 Jul 2026Saturated
- 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.
- Assist in determining document management policies to facilitate efficient, legal, and secure access to electronic content.
- Assist in the development of document or content classification taxonomies to facilitate information capture, search, and retrieval.
- Implement electronic document processing, retrieval, and distribution systems in collaboration with other information technology specialists.
- Identify and classify documents or other electronic content according to characteristics such as security level, function, and metadata.
- Develop, document, or maintain standards, best practices, or system usage procedures.
- Assist in the assessment, acquisition, or deployment of new electronic document management systems.
- Administer document and system access rights and revision control to ensure security of system and integrity of master documents.
- Prepare and record changes to official documents and confirm changes with legal and compliance management staff, including enterprise-wide records management staff.
- Write, review, or execute plans for testing new or established document management systems.
- Monitor regulatory activity to maintain compliance with records and document management laws.
- Retrieve electronic assets from repository for distribution to users, collecting and returning to repository, if necessary.
- Keep abreast of developments in document management technologies and techniques by reviewing current literature, talking with colleagues, participating in educational programs, attending meetings or workshops, or participating in professional organizations or conferences.
Other job titles for this occupation (36)
Business Records Manager · Certified Document Imaging Architect · Document Control Manager · Document Management Consultant · ECM Consultant (Enterprise Content Management Consultant) · Electronic Content Manager · Record Systems Analyst · Records and Information Management Consultant (RIM Consultant) · Records and Information Management Specialist (RIM Specialist) · Records Manager · Clinical Documentation Specialist · Commercial Loan Documentation Specialist · Content Specialist · Content Strategist · Credentialing Coordinator · Credentialing Manager · Document Control Administrator (Document Control Admin) · Document Control Clerk · Document Control Coordinator · Document Control Specialist · Document Controller · Document Imaging Specialist · Document Management Specialist · Document Management Technician · Document Processor · Document Specialist · Documentation Analyst · Documentation Specialist · Enterprise Records Analyst · Knowledge Management Specialist · Loan Documentation Specialist · Quality Document Control Specialist · Quality Documentation Specialist · Records Specialist · Records Technician · Technical Documentation Specialist