Jobs / Office and administrative support / 43-9022.00
Word Processors and Typists
Use word processor, computer, or typewriter to type letters, reports, forms, or other material from rough draft, corrected copy, or voice recording. May perform other clerical duties as assigned.
- US jobs
- 35,010
- Median wage
- $49,280 a year
- Job family
- Office and administrative support
Can agents do the work of word processors and typists?
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.
- File and store completed documents on computer hard drive or disk, or maintain a computer filing system to store, retrieve, update, and delete documents.
- Transmit work electronically to other locations.
- Perform other clerical duties, such as answering telephone, sorting and distributing mail, running errands or sending faxes.
- Electronically sort and compile text and numerical data, retrieving, updating, and merging documents as required.
- Check completed work for spelling, grammar, punctuation, and format.
- Print and make copies of work.
- Search for specific sets of stored, typed characters to make changes.
- Address envelopes or prepare envelope labels, using typewriter or computer.
- Collate pages of reports and other documents.
- Reformat documents, moving paragraphs or columns.
- Type correspondence, reports, text and other written material from rough drafts, corrected copies, voice recordings, dictation, or previous versions, using a computer, word processor, or typewriter.
- Keep records of work performed.
Other job titles for this occupation (38)
Clerk Specialist · Clerk Typist · Keyboard Specialist · Stenographer · Typist · Word Processing Operator · Word Processing Specialist · Word Processor · Account Clerk Typist · Continuity Clerk · Court Stenographer · Data Transcriber · Dictaphone Typist · Document Processor · Ediphone Operator · Electromatic Typist · Legal Transcriptionist · Legal Typist · Medical Typist · Notereader · Office Clerk · Order Processing Specialist · Policy Typist · Policy Writer Typist · Processing Specialist · Script Worker · Statistical Typist · Stencil Typist · Telegraphic Typewriter Operator · Transcriber · Transcribing Machine Operator · Transcription Typist · Transcriptionist · Typing Office Technician (Typing Office Tech) · Typing Office Worker · Word Processing Machine Operator · Word Processor Operator · Word Processor Technician (Word Processor Tech)