Occupations/13-2031.00
Budget Analysts
Examine budget estimates for completeness, accuracy, and conformance with procedures and regulations. Analyze budgeting and accounting reports.
Usually a four-year bachelor’s degree.
AI automation risk
78%
Higher automation risk
Human characteristics
55%
Balanced human and task mix
Task orientation
80%
Higher automation risk
A day in this job
- Mostly routine
Review operating budgets to analyze trends affecting budget needs.
- Mostly routine
Compile and analyze accounting records and other data to determine the financial resources required to implement a program.
- Task
Analyze monthly department budgeting and accounting reports to maintain expenditure controls.
The tasks we can read here lean routine. That sits next to the AI risk rank — it is not a forecast that the job disappears.
Core tasks
- 01Analyze monthly department budgeting and accounting reports to maintain expenditure controls.
- 02Provide advice and technical assistance with cost analysis, fiscal allocation, and budget preparation.
- 03Review operating budgets to analyze trends affecting budget needs.
- 04Compile and analyze accounting records and other data to determine the financial resources required to implement a program.
- 05Examine budget estimates for completeness, accuracy, and conformance with procedures and regulations.
- 06Summarize budgets and submit recommendations for the approval or disapproval of funds requests.
Model drivers (O*NET 1–5)
- Repeating same tasks4.60
- Degree of automation1.57
- Time sitting4.82
- Originality (ability)2.88
- Conflict situations3.01
- Hands-on objects/tools3.64
- Outdoors / weather1.15
- Disease exposure1.37
- Decision freedom4.25
Top abilities
- Written Comprehension3.88
- Oral Expression3.88
- Oral Comprehension3.88
- Number Facility3.88
- Mathematical Reasoning3.88
- Problem Sensitivity3.75
- Information Ordering3.75
- Deductive Reasoning3.75
Essential skills
- Reading Comprehension3.75
- Active Listening3.75
- Writing3.12
- Speaking3.75
- Mathematics3.88
- Science1.25
- Critical Thinking3.88
- Active Learning3.25
- Learning Strategies2.50
- Monitoring3.12
CIP matches
Schools offering related programs
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Earnings are College Scorecard medians for that program, 1 and 2 years after completion. A dash means the Department suppressed the cell or the campus is not in the field file.
| Institution | Program | Tuition | Admit | Grad 6-yr | Earnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA · Private nonprofit | Finance, General 52.0801 | $60,100 | 4% | 96% | 1 yr $101,964 2 yr $88,198 Master's · CIP 52.08 |
Boston University Boston, MA · Private nonprofit | Finance, General 52.0801 | $65,200 | 14% | 89% | 1 yr $91,744 2 yr $84,653 Master's · CIP 52.08 |
New York University New York, NY · Private nonprofit | Accounting 52.0301 | $60,400 | 12% | 88% | 1 yr $78,172 2 yr $77,297 Master's · CIP 52.03 |
Georgetown University Washington, DC · Private nonprofit | Accounting 52.0301 | $65,400 | 12% | 95% | 1 yr $77,966 2 yr $77,715 Bachelor's · CIP 52.03 |
University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA · Public | Accounting 52.0301 | $14,800 | 11% | 93% | 1 yr $71,734 2 yr $70,886 Master's · CIP 52.03 |
Northeastern University Boston, MA · Private nonprofit | Accounting 52.0301 | $63,200 | 7% | 91% | 1 yr $70,680 2 yr $69,937 Bachelor's · CIP 52.03 |
Howard University Washington, DC · Private nonprofit | Accounting 52.0301 | $33,200 | 53% | 65% | 1 yr $69,338 2 yr $69,948 Master's · CIP 52.03 |
University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA · Private nonprofit | Accounting 52.0301 | $68,200 | 12% | 92% | 1 yr $67,740 2 yr $66,839 Bachelor's · CIP 52.03 |
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL · Public | Accounting 52.0301 | $17,500 | 45% | 85% | 1 yr $66,787 2 yr $64,493 Bachelor's · CIP 52.03 |
Lincoln College of Technology-Indianapolis Indianapolis, IN · Private for-profit | Accounting 52.0301 | $18,600 | 100% | 64% | 1 yr $65,386 2 yr $62,524 Bachelor's · CIP 52.03 |
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI · Public | Accounting 52.0301 | $17,700 | 18% | 93% | 1 yr $64,741 2 yr $65,198 Master's · CIP 52.03 |
University of Massachusetts-Amherst Amherst, MA · Public | Accounting 52.0301 | $17,400 | 64% | 83% | 1 yr $63,522 2 yr $63,646 Bachelor's · CIP 52.03 |