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Fraud Examiners, Investigators and Analysts

Occupation · SOC 13-2099.04

Obtain evidence, take statements, produce reports, and testify to findings regarding resolution of fraud allegations. May coordinate fraud detection and prevention activities.

Also called: Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) · Forensic Accountant · Investigator · Special Investigations Unit Investigator (SIU Investigator) · Anti-Fraud Operations Analyst · Casino Gaming Regulator · Confidential Investigator · Financial Crimes Investigator · Financial Investigator · Fraud Analyst · AML Analyst (Anti-Money Laundering Analyst) · AML Consultant (Anti-Money Laundering Consultant)

Job family: Business and Financial Operations Occupations

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AI work map

A fast read on where AI already shows up in this occupation, where it stays a copilot, where humans remain in the loop, and what the labor market is doing. Built from observed Claude.ai conversations mapped to O*NET tasks and from published research — measures of usage and exposure, not advice or predictions that the job is going away.

Use as a copilot

Task areas where people work with AI — iterating, learning, or checking — staying in the loop rather than handing the task off.

  • Prepare written reports of investigation findings. · 0.8%
  • Maintain knowledge of current events and trends in such areas as money laundering and criminal tools and techniques. · 0.5%
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Keep a human in the loop

Task areas where a human was still judged necessary in a large share of observed conversations — not a safety ruling, an observed-need signal.

  • Prepare written reports of investigation findings. · 97.4% need a human
  • Maintain knowledge of current events and trends in such areas as money laundering and criminal tools and techniques. · 95.6% need a human
See the boundary tasks →

87th-percentile task overlap — yet about 10,300 openings a year (+3.1% projected, BLS), and observed AI use leans 5492% copilot, not hand-off (AEI) . What exposure means →

AI & job outlook

What today's research says about this occupation's exposure to AI, how AI is actually being used in it, and where employment is headed. These are positions within published studies — measures of exposure and usage, not predictions that this job will disappear.

Exposure to current AI

Each study uses its own scale, so the raw scores are not comparable across rows — the percentile (this job's rank among all U.S. occupations with data) is the comparable figure, and sizes the bars.

Measure Rank vs all occupations Percentile Score
Overall AI exposure (Felten et al.) High 93rd 1.4
LLM task exposure, γ (OpenAI / Eloundou) High 73rd 0.9
AI assistant applicability (Microsoft) High 79th 0.2

OpenAI's exposure study scores tasks three ways: with a language model alone (α 0.1), with simple added tooling (β 0.5), and including AI-powered software (γ 0.9). Higher means more of the job's tasks could be done at least twice as fast — not that they will be automated away.

Most of this job's tasks can be done remotely (Dingel–Neiman), which tends to track with higher digital and AI exposure.

Historical automation estimate (2013)

A pre-LLM (2013) estimate of how automatable this job is by computerization and robotics. Shown for historical context only — it is not part of any current AI ranking.

Frey–Osborne probability 0.3 · 40th percentile among occupations · Moderate

How AI is actually used in this job

Among measured AI assistant conversations mapped to this occupation (Anthropic Economic Index, 2026-01-15), these task types came up most. These are shares of observed AI conversations — not shares of the job, of worker time, or of what could be automated.

Maintain knowledge of current events and trends in such areas as money laundering and criminal tools and techniques. 0.5%
Prepare written reports of investigation findings. 0.4%
Gather financial documents related to investigations. 0.3%
Analyze financial data to detect irregularities in areas such as billing trends, financial relationships, and regulatory compliance procedures. 0.3%
Review reports of suspected fraud to determine need for further investigation. 0.2%
Conduct in-depth investigations of suspicious financial activity, such as suspected money-laundering efforts. 0.2%

Job outlook

Independent U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics employment projection for 2024–2034 — a labor-market forecast, not an AI-impact forecast.

Outlook About average · +3.1% by 2034
Projected annual openings 10,300
Employment 2024 → 2034 137,100 → 141,400

“Annual openings” counts new jobs plus replacements for workers who leave the occupation, so it can be large even when growth is modest.

Where this work sits on the global GenAI gradient

The ILO's 2025 global study scores generative-AI exposure on the international ISCO-08 occupation system, not US SOC. Bridged through the published (and approximate, many-to-many) IBS O*NET-SOC ↔ ISCO-08 crosswalk, this US occupation corresponds to the international occupation below. Exposure here means how much of the work's tasks today's AI can attempt — task overlap, not automation, adoption, or jobs lost.

45% mean task exposure (2025)
82nd percentile of 427 placed occupations
−8 pts shift 2023 → 2025
International occupation (ISCO-08) Task exposure (2025) Most tasks fall in
Business Services Agents Not Elsewhere Classified · 3339 45% Gradient 2

Read the whole six-band gradient on the GenAI exposure gradient page. The crosswalk is approximate: a US occupation can map to several international ones, and the ILO scores describe the international occupation, not this exact US role.

Working with AI in this job

How people actually apply AI to this occupation's tasks, from Claude.ai (Free and Pro) conversations in the Anthropic Economic Index, 2026-01-15. This is one AI assistant's consumer sample — not all AI, not the whole workforce. Autonomy and the collaboration mix are model-rated estimates; figures below the sample floor are hidden.

Augmentation vs. automation 54.9% working with AI · 24.6% handed to AI
Most common way people use AI here Iteration · you and AI go back and forth
Typical AI autonomy 3.5 / 5 · higher = AI acts more independently
Used for work (vs. personal / coursework) 67.2%

What people delegate to AI

The role's most common tasks in AI conversations, each tagged with how people work with the AI on it. “Usage” is the share of observed conversations, not of the job.

Task How Usage
Prepare written reports of investigation findings. Iteration 0.8%
Maintain knowledge of current events and trends in such areas as money laundering and criminal tools and techniques. Learning 0.5%

Where a human is still needed

Tasks where the model most often judged that a person remained necessary — a useful read on the current boundary, not a guarantee.

Prepare written reports of investigation findings. 97.4%
Maintain knowledge of current events and trends in such areas as money laundering and criminal tools and techniques. 95.6%

What people most often hand AI here

Example prompts phrased from the tasks people most often delegate to AI in this occupation (Anthropic Economic Index). Each shows the underlying measured task and its share of observed AI use. They are suggested phrasings of real tasks — starting points, not endorsed instructions.

  • Help me prepare written reports of investigation findings.

    From: Prepare written reports of investigation findings. · 0.8% of measured AI use · task iteration

  • Help me maintain knowledge of current events and trends in such areas as money laundering and criminal tools and techniques.

    From: Maintain knowledge of current events and trends in such areas as money laundering and criminal tools and techniques. · 0.5% of measured AI use · learning

Tasks

All 23 tasks O*NET lists for this occupation, ordered by importance. Each links to its own page with AI-exposure and observed-use detail.

Work activities

Knowledge, skills & abilities

O*NET importance rating, from 1 (not important) to 5 (extremely important).

Knowledge

English Language 4.4
Economics and Accounting 4.0
Law and Government 4.0
Computers and Electronics 3.6
Administration and Management 3.6
Mathematics 3.6
Customer and Personal Service 3.5
Education and Training 3.5
Public Safety and Security 3.1

Abilities

Written Expression 4.3
Oral Comprehension 4.1
Problem Sensitivity 4.1
Written Comprehension 4.0
Oral Expression 4.0
Deductive Reasoning 4.0
Inductive Reasoning 4.0
Speech Recognition 3.9
Speech Clarity 3.8
Near Vision 3.6
Information Ordering 3.5
Flexibility of Closure 3.4
Selective Attention 3.1

Essential skills

Active Listening 4.1
Writing 4.1
Reading Comprehension 4.0
Speaking 4.0
Critical Thinking 4.0
Active Learning 3.8
Monitoring 3.1
Mathematics 3.0

Transferable skills

Complex Problem Solving 4.0
Judgment and Decision Making 3.9
Coordination 3.6
Social Perceptiveness 3.4
Persuasion 3.3
Negotiation 3.1
Time Management 3.1
Instructing 3.0
Service Orientation 3.0
Management of Personnel Resources 3.0

Skills in demand

Skills employers ask for in job postings for this occupation (Lightcast), with whether each is a common or specialized skill.

Showing the top 40 of 43.

Tools & technology

Example Category
Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet software Hot technology In demand
Microsoft Office software Office suite software Hot technology In demand
Microsoft Outlook Electronic mail software Hot technology In demand
Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation software Hot technology In demand
Microsoft Word Word processing software Hot technology In demand
Structured query language SQL Data base user interface and query software Hot technology In demand
Microsoft Access Data base user interface and query software Hot technology
Microsoft SharePoint Document management software Hot technology
Microsoft SQL Server Data base user interface and query software Hot technology
Microsoft Visio Process mapping and design software Hot technology
Python Object or component oriented development software Hot technology
R Object or component oriented development software Hot technology
SAS Analytical or scientific software Hot technology
Splunk Enterprise Cloud-based management software Hot technology
Tableau Business intelligence and data analysis software Hot technology
ArcSight Enterprise Threat and Risk Management Risk management data and analysis software
Bookkeeping software Accounting software
Business intelligence software Business intelligence and data analysis software
Electronic health record EHR software Medical software
Guardian Analytics FraudMAP Business intelligence and data analysis software
IBM Cognos Business intelligence and data analysis software
LexisNexis Information retrieval or search software
NortonLifeLock cybersecurity software Transaction security and virus protection software
PCG Software Virtual Examiner Audit software
SAP Business Objects Enterprise resource planning ERP software
TIBCO Spotfire Business intelligence and data analysis software
TriZetto QNXT Data base user interface and query software
Vertafore ImageRight Data base user interface and query software

Work context

How characteristic each condition is of the job, on O*NET's 1–5 context scale (higher = more present in day-to-day work). Each condition links to how it varies across all occupations.

E-Mail 4.8
Telephone Conversations 4.7
Importance of Being Exact or Accurate 4.6
Spend Time Sitting 4.5
Work With or Contribute to a Work Group or Team 4.4
Frequency of Decision Making 4.4
Face-to-Face Discussions with Individuals and Within Teams 4.3
Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results 4.2
Contact With Others 4.1
Determine Tasks, Priorities and Goals 4.1
Freedom to Make Decisions 4.1
Indoors, Environmentally Controlled 4.0
Time Pressure 4.0
Written Letters and Memos 3.9
Deal With External Customers or the Public in General 3.9
Coordinate or Lead Others in Accomplishing Work Activities 3.8
Importance of Repeating Same Tasks 3.8
Work Outcomes and Results of Other Workers 3.6
Level of Competition 3.4
Conflict Situations 3.2
Dealing With Unpleasant, Angry, or Discourteous People 3.2
Consequence of Error 3.1
Physical Proximity 3.0
Spend Time Making Repetitive Motions 3.0
Health and Safety of Other Workers 2.8
Public Speaking 2.8
Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls 2.6
Exposed to Sounds, Noise Levels that are Distracting or Uncomfortable 2.5
Degree of Automation 2.4
In an Enclosed Vehicle or Operate Enclosed Equipment 2.2
Spend Time Standing 2.2
Indoors, Not Environmentally Controlled 2.2
Outdoors, Exposed to All Weather Conditions 2.0
Dealing with Violent or Physically Aggressive People 1.9
Outdoors, Under Cover 1.8
Wear Common Protective or Safety Equipment such as Safety Shoes, Glasses, Gloves, Hearing Protection, Hard Hats, or Life Jackets 1.8
Exposed to Cramped Work Space, Awkward Positions 1.8
Spend Time Walking or Running 1.8
Exposed to Contaminants 1.7
Exposed to Extremely Bright or Inadequate Lighting Conditions 1.6

How to get in

Job zone
Zone 4 — Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed
Education
Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.
Typical entry-level education
Bachelor's degree · BLS, the typical path — not a requirement
Related experience
A considerable amount of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.
Preparation level
SVP (7.0 to < 8.0) — total schooling plus on-the-job experience.

What to study: Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services , Mathematics and Statistics , Theology and Religious Vocations . Fields of study crosswalked to this occupation (NCES CIP–SOC), not a requirement.

Education of current workers

Share of people in this occupation at each level of education.

Bachelor's Degree 75.0%
Post-Baccalaureate Certificate 8.3%
Master's Degree 8.3%
Post-Secondary Certificate 4.2%
Associate's Degree (or other 2-year degree) 4.2%

Interests & work styles

The interests and personal qualities O*NET associates with people who do this work.

Work styles

Dependability 9.0
Attention to Detail 8.0
Integrity 7.0
Cautiousness 6.0
Intellectual Curiosity 5.0
Achievement Orientation 4.0

Career interests (Holland / RIASEC)

Conventional 5.6
Investigative 4.7
Enterprising 4.6

Interest areas

Accounting 5.5
Finance 4.5
Office Work 4.1
Protective Service 4.0
Law 3.9
Mathematics/Statistics 3.2
Management/Administration 3.2

Wages & employment

U.S. · annual wages (BLS OEWS)

$46k10th$60k25th$80kMedian$109k75th$152k90th
Annual wages by percentile — U.S. (BLS OEWS). The light band spans the 10th–90th percentile; the darker band is the middle half (25th–75th); the line is the median.
137k2024141k2034 (proj.)+3.1% · About average
Projected U.S. employment, 2024–2034 (BLS Employment Projections). A labor-market forecast for the occupation, not an AI-impact forecast.
10th percentile $46,420
25th percentile $60,140
Median (50th) $80,190
75th percentile $109,120
90th percentile $151,780
People employed 127,450

Wages and employment are reported by BLS for the broader occupation group this specialty belongs to (SOC 13-2099), not for the specialty alone.

Industries that employ this occupation

Where these workers are employed, by number of jobs (national, BLS OEWS). Pay shown is the occupation's national median, not industry-specific.

Industry Workers National median pay
Finance and Insurance · Sector 40,340 $78,030
Management of Companies and Enterprises · Sector 10,290 $81,030
Educational Services · Sector 7,640 $63,750
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services · Sector 7,510 $93,690
Health Care and Social Assistance · Sector 7,030 $64,930
Other Services (except Public Administration) · Sector 5,080 $52,770
Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services · Sector 4,220 $64,070
Information · Sector 2,700 $82,900
Wholesale Trade · Sector 2,280 $77,880
Manufacturing · Sector 2,200 $105,650
Retail Trade · Sector 2,130 $72,560
Insurance Agencies and Brokerages · National industry 1,100 $83,870

Where this work is most concentrated

Industries where this occupation is far more common than in the economy as a whole. The location quotient is how many times more concentrated it is here (a value of 5 means five times its economy-wide share).

Industry Concentration Workers
Finance and Insurance · Sector 7.84× 40,340
Management of Companies and Enterprises · Sector 4.43× 10,290
Labor Unions and Similar Labor Organizations · National industry 1.83× 160
Direct Health and Medical Insurance Carriers · National industry 1.62× 600
Other Services (except Public Administration) · Sector 1.39× 5,080
Insurance Agencies and Brokerages · National industry 1.34× 1,100
Information · Sector 1.12× 2,700
Utilities · Sector 0.9× 430

Part of the Financial Services career cluster.

Exposure quadrant: AI task-overlap percentile vs Median pay Fraud Examiners, Investigators and Analysts sits at the 87th percentile of AI task-overlap and the 71st percentile of median pay, placed here against 12 adjacent occupations on the same two axes. Lower overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · lower pay Lower overlap · lower pay Fraud Examiners, Investigators and Analysts Retail Loss Prevention Specialists Detectives and Criminal Investigators Private Detectives and Investigators Compliance Managers Claims Adjusters, Examiners, and Investigators Credit Authorizers, Checkers, and Clerks Management Analysts AI task-overlap percentile → ↑ Median pay
AI task-overlap percentile (horizontal) vs. median-pay percentile (vertical), across all scored occupations. This occupation is highlighted; related occupations are plotted alongside it. Overlap measures shared tasks with AI, not automation.

Side-by-side comparisons place two occupations’ pay, preparation, skills, and AI exposure on the same page — same data, same scale, no forecast.

What you can do with this

Options the data surfaces for Fraud Examiners, Investigators and Analysts — not advice or a forecast. Each is a real cross-link you can follow into the evidence.

Skills that travel

Capabilities this work builds that are used across many other occupations.

Paths in

How people typically prepare for this work.

Zoom out

On the global GenAI exposure gradient this work sits around the 82nd percentile of 427 international occupations.

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Fraud Examiners, Investigators and Analysts show 87th-percentile AI task overlap — and about 10,300 annual U.S. openings

  • Fraud Examiners, Investigators and Analysts rank in the 87th percentile (High band) for AI task overlap across U.S. occupations — a measure of how much of the work today's AI can attempt, not how much is automated.Eloundou et al. (GPTs are GPTs) + Felten AIOE
  • The occupation is projected to see about 10,300 U.S. job openings per year (2024–34), counting growth and replacement — a labor-demand projection made independently of AI.BLS Employment Projections 2024–34
  • BLS projects employment to be about average (+3.1%) from 2024 to 2034.BLS Employment Projections 2024–34
  • Median annual pay is $80,190, across about 127,450 U.S. workers.BLS OEWS (May 2024)
  • Of the AI use actually observed for this work, 55% looks like augmentation (drafting, iterating, checking) rather than hands-off automation — from a Claude.ai usage sample, not a census.2026-01-15-v4-plus-2025-03-27-v2
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Fraud Examiners, Investigators and Analysts show 87th-percentile AI task overlap — and about 10,300 annual U.S. openings

• Fraud Examiners, Investigators and Analysts rank in the 87th percentile (High band) for AI task overlap across U.S. occupations — a measure of how much of the work today's AI can attempt, not how much is automated. (Eloundou et al. (GPTs are GPTs) + Felten AIOE)
• The occupation is projected to see about 10,300 U.S. job openings per year (2024–34), counting growth and replacement — a labor-demand projection made independently of AI. (BLS Employment Projections 2024–34)
• BLS projects employment to be about average (+3.1%) from 2024 to 2034. (BLS Employment Projections 2024–34)
• Median annual pay is $80,190, across about 127,450 U.S. workers. (BLS OEWS (May 2024))
• Of the AI use actually observed for this work, 55% looks like augmentation (drafting, iterating, checking) rather than hands-off automation — from a Claude.ai usage sample, not a census. (2026-01-15-v4-plus-2025-03-27-v2)

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Note: AI task overlap measures what today's AI can attempt, not automation, job loss, or a forecast.

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Singulariki. "Fraud Examiners, Investigators and Analysts." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; BLS Employment Projections 2024–2034; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); Microsoft “Working with AI” working-with-ai; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans; ILO / Gmyrek et al. GenAI exposure gradient 2025; IBS O*NET-SOC ↔ ISCO-08 occupation crosswalk 2022; Frey & Osborne (2013) frey-osborne-automation; Dingel & Neiman (2020) dingel-neiman-workathome. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/roles/role-13-2099-04

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@misc{singulariki-role-13-2099-04,
  title  = {Fraud Examiners, Investigators and Analysts},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; BLS Employment Projections 2024–2034; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); Microsoft “Working with AI” working-with-ai; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans; ILO / Gmyrek et al. GenAI exposure gradient 2025; IBS O*NET-SOC ↔ ISCO-08 occupation crosswalk 2022; Frey & Osborne (2013) frey-osborne-automation; Dingel & Neiman (2020) dingel-neiman-workathome. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/roles/role-13-2099-04}
}

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