Comparison of wages and automation potential for Note: The analysis used “detailed work activities,” as defined by U.S. jobs O’NET, a program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration. Using a linear model, 1 Ability to automate, % of time spent on acitivities that can be we find the correlation between wages and automatability in the automated by adapting currently demonstrated technology. U.S. economy to be significant (p-value < 0.01), but with a high 2 degree of variability (r = 0.19). 100 80 60 40 20 2 r = 0.19 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 Hourly wage, $ per hour Source: O’NET 2014 database: McKinsey analysis, McKinsey & Company. 107