Business and Financial Operations · Holland code ECI

Business Continuity Planners

Develop, maintain, or implement business continuity and disaster recovery strategies and solutions, including risk assessments, business impact analyses, strategy selection, and documentation of business continuity and disaster recovery procedures. Plan, conduct, and debrief regular mock-disaster exercises to test the adequacy of existing plans and strategies, updating procedures and plans regularly. Act as a coordinator for continuity efforts after a disruption event.

Also called: Business Continuity Administrator (Business Continuity Admin), Business Continuity Analyst, Business Continuity Consultant, Business Continuity Coordinator, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Consultant, Business Continuity Professional, Business Continuity Specialist, Business System Consultant.

O*NET 13-1199.04

At a glance

US median annual pay: $83,050; Middle half earn $62,640 to $114,010. BLS OEWS, May 2025.
Most common education: Bachelor's Degree; 48% of workers surveyed by O*NET report this level.
Preparation needed: Job Zone 4 of 5; Considerable preparation. Zone 1 is little or none; zone 5 is graduate-level.

What the work involves

The tasks workers in this occupation rate as most important, from the O*NET survey.

Develop emergency management plans for recovery decision making and communications, continuity of critical departmental processes, or temporary shut-down of non-critical departments to ensure continuity of operation and governance.
Conduct or oversee collection of corporate intelligence to avoid fraud, financial crime, cyber attack, terrorism, and infrastructure failure.
Test documented disaster recovery strategies and plans.
Develop disaster recovery plans for physical locations with critical assets, such as data centers.
Establish, maintain, or test call trees to ensure appropriate communication during disaster.
Identify opportunities for strategic improvement or mitigation of business interruption and other risks caused by business, regulatory, or industry-specific change initiatives.
Maintain and update organization information technology applications and network systems blueprints.
Review existing disaster recovery, crisis management, or business continuity plans.

Skills and knowledge it leans on

Skills

Active Listening4.1 / 5
Critical Thinking4.1 / 5
Reading Comprehension4.0 / 5
Writing4.0 / 5
Speaking4.0 / 5
Active Learning4.0 / 5

Knowledge areas

English Language4.1 / 5
Public Safety and Security3.7 / 5
Administration and Management3.5 / 5
Customer and Personal Service3.4 / 5
Computers and Electronics3.4 / 5
Education and Training3.3 / 5

Importance ratings on O*NET’s 1 to 5 scale. Higher means the occupation depends on it more.

Who tends to enjoy it

How strongly this occupation draws on each of the six Holland interest types, which is the same profile the career interests test compares you against.

Realistic17
Investigative56
Artistic11
Social34
Enterprising71
Conventional68

The same work abroad

Other countries classify jobs differently, so these are the closest matches through the international ISCO-08 standard, not exact equivalents.

European occupation titles (ESCO)

ICT disaster recovery analyst · DE Analytiker für IT-Notfallwiederherstellung/Analytikerin für IT-Notfallwiederherstellung · FR analyste de la reprise des activités informatiques
ICT resilience manager · DE IT-Notfallmanager/IT-Notfallmanagerin · FR responsable de la résilience informatique
ICT security administrator · DE IT-Sicherheitsadministrator/IT-Sicherheitsadministratorin · FR administrateur sécurité informatique/administratrice sécurité informatique
ICT security manager · DE IT-Sicherheitsmanager/IT-Sicherheitsmanagerin · FR responsable de la sécurité informatique

Closest UK occupation groups (SOC 2020)

Cyber security professionals (2135)91,200 employed
IT quality and testing professionals (2136)32,600 employed
Finance and investment analysts and advisers (2422)268,700 employed

Employment is the UK Annual Population Survey for April 2025 to March 2026, all workers in the group, which can be broader than this one occupation.

Pay across Europe, for the whole group

Median annual earnings of all employees in “Professionals”. This is the broad ISCO group this occupation falls in, not the occupation itself, so treat it as context for the wage level, not as a salary for this job.

Median annual earnings, Professionals, by country
Country	Median pay
Belgium	€61,714
Germany	€59,529
Ireland	€56,877
Austria	€55,374
Netherlands	€53,595
Sweden	€43,567
France	€41,515
Spain	€35,735
Italy	€33,649
Portugal	€26,072
Poland	€14,380

Eurostat Structure of Earnings Survey, businesses with ten or more employees outside public administration, in euro and not adjusted for the cost of living. Reference years differ between sources: the US, Japan and Europe figures on this page come from different survey years, so compare them as rough levels, not to the euro or yen.

Exposure to AI

This occupation sits in the higher third of the 774 occupations scored, with an exposure score of +1.05. The scores are standardized across those occupations, so 0 is the average and a score of 1 is about one standard deviation above it.

Our note on reading it: the dataset links AI applications to the abilities that occupations require, so the score reflects overlap between the two. It is a comparison between occupations, not a forecast about jobs. It does not say whether exposure means tasks are replaced or workers get more done with the tools, and it says little about one employer or one role.

Source: Felten, E., Raj, M., & Seamans, R. (2021). Occupational, industry, and geographic exposure to artificial intelligence: A novel dataset and its potential uses. Strategic Management Journal, 42(12), 2195-2217. Matched to this page by 6-digit SOC code (13-1199).

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