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Phlebotomists
Draw blood for tests, transfusions, donations, or research. May explain the procedure to patients and assist in the recovery of patients with adverse reactions.
- US jobs
- 143,540
- Median wage
- $45,230 a year
- Job family
- Healthcare
Can agents do the work of phlebotomists?
We read the evidence at the level of the job family, Healthcare:
- Task levelPartialOne benchmark, from early 2025. On Stanford's MedAgentBench, where agents do clinical tasks in a simulated electronic health record, the best recorded model completes 69.7% of tasks (Claude 3.5 Sonnet v2). It has no maintained leaderboard, so newer models are not measured. No benchmark in our collection tests work with patients.
- Project levelPartialOnly adjacent evidence. GDPval includes nurses among its 44 occupations. OpenAI reports that GPT-5.5's deliverables won or tied against professionals' work in 84.9% of comparisons across all occupations. No benchmark in our collection tests clinical work over days, such as managing a patient's care.
Benchmarks for the job family
These cover work in healthcare, not always this occupation's tasks.
- 1846 EloClaude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback) · 23 Sep 2026Unrated
Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- Confirm the identities of patients by verifying their personal information.
- Match laboratory requisition forms to specimen tubes.
- Dispose of contaminated sharps, in accordance with applicable laws, standards, and policies.
- Dispose of blood or other biohazard fluids or tissue, in accordance with applicable laws, standards, or policies.
- Collect specimens at specific time intervals for tests, such as those assessing therapeutic drug levels.
- Draw blood from veins by vacuum tube, syringe, or butterfly venipuncture methods.
- Organize or clean blood-drawing trays, ensuring that all instruments are sterile and all needles, syringes, or related items are of first-time use.
- Enter patient, specimen, insurance, or billing information into computer.
- Conduct standards tests, such as blood alcohol, blood culture, oral glucose tolerance, glucose screening, blood smears, or peak and trough drug levels tests.
- Process blood or other fluid samples for further analysis by other medical professionals.
- Provide sample analysis results to physicians to assist diagnosis.
- Document route of specimens from collection to laboratory analysis and diagnosis.
Other job titles for this occupation (20)
Lab Liaison Technician · Mobile Examiner · Patient Service Technician (PST) · Phlebotomist Lab Assistant (Phlebotomist Laboratory Assistant) · Phlebotomy Technician (Phlebotomy Tech) · Registered Phlebotomist · Registered Phlebotomy Technician (RPT) · Certified Phlebotomist · Certified Phlebotomy Technician (Certified Phlebotomy Tech) · Clinical Phlebotomist · Lab Phlebotomist (Laboratory Phlebotomist) · Long Term Care Phlebotomist · Mobile Phlebotomist · Outpatient Phlebotomist · Phlebotomy Services Representative · Phlebotomy Services Technician (Phlebotomy Services Tech) · Phlebotomy Technologist · Research Phlebotomist · Travel Phlebotomist · Venipuncturist