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Dynamic Strength

Ability · O*NET work requirement

The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue.

In the O*NET occupational database, Dynamic Strength is an ability that work requires. O*NET rates how important it is (1–5) and what level of it a job needs (0–7) for every U.S. occupation. It is rated as important (3 or higher) in 40 of 894 occupations.

Breadth here means how widely O*NET rates this ability as important across occupations — not that it is rare, high-paying, or currently in employer demand.

Occupations that rely most on Dynamic Strength

Ranked by O*NET importance to the occupation (1–5). Bars are sized against the 1–5 scale; the level column is what depth of the ability the job needs (0–7).

Occupation Importance Score Level
Dancers 4.3 4.6
Choreographers 3.8 3.8
Massage Therapists 3.8 3.5
Athletes and Sports Competitors 3.6 4.0
Brickmasons and Blockmasons 3.6 3.3
Structural Iron and Steel Workers 3.6 3.8
Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse 3.5 3.1
Firefighters 3.5 3.8
Tree Trimmers and Pruners 3.4 3.4
Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers 3.3 3.0
Stonemasons 3.3 3.3
Construction Laborers 3.1 3.1
Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors 3.1 3.8
Fence Erectors 3.1 3.1
Fishing and Hunting Workers 3.1 3.0
Forest and Conservation Workers 3.1 3.1
Furniture Finishers 3.1 2.9
Plasterers and Stucco Masons 3.1 2.9
Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers 3.1 2.6
Rail-Track Laying and Maintenance Equipment Operators 3.1 3.3
Reinforcing Iron and Rebar Workers 3.1 3.0
Wind Turbine Service Technicians 3.1 3.3
Adhesive Bonding Machine Operators and Tenders 3.0 2.8
Carpet Installers 3.0 3.1
Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders 3.0 3.1
Commercial Divers 3.0 3.0
Correctional Officers and Jailers 3.0 3.0
Fallers 3.0 3.1
Floor Sanders and Finishers 3.0 2.9
Helpers--Brickmasons, Blockmasons, Stonemasons, and Tile and Marble Setters 3.0 3.0
Helpers--Extraction Workers 3.0 3.0
Helpers--Painters, Paperhangers, Plasterers, and Stucco Masons 3.0 2.6
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand 3.0 3.0
Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers 3.0 3.0
Millwrights 3.0 3.0
Orderlies 3.0 2.9
Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters 3.0 2.9
Rock Splitters, Quarry 3.0 3.3
Terrazzo Workers and Finishers 3.0 3.1
Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing 3.0 2.9

How AI is used by roles that need Dynamic Strength

This ability is not itself "being automated" — but we can look at the roles for which O*NET rates it important and ask how those people actually use AI. This rolls the Anthropic Economic Index per-role signal up across those roles (importance-weighted). 27.5% of the 40 roles where this is important carry observed AI-usage data (11 roles).

Across those roles, 50.9% of AI conversations are people working with AI and 16.2% hand a task to AI , with an average autonomy of 3.87 / 5.

Collaboration pattern Share What it means
learning 38.3% you ask AI to explain or teach
directive 15.7% AI does it; you give the instruction
task iteration 12.3% you and AI go back and forth
feedback loop 0.5% AI does it, then adjusts from your feedback
validation 0.4% you do it; AI checks your work

Roles behind this signal

The roles where this ability is most important and that also have the most AEI data. "Works with AI" is the role's share of conversations that augment rather than automate.

Occupation Importance Works with AI Autonomy
Correctional Officers and Jailers 3.0 52.7% 3.0/5
Choreographers 3.8 54.5% 4.0/5
Massage Therapists 3.8 66.7% 4.0/5
Fitness Trainers and Aerobics Instructors 3.1 77.0% 4.0/5
Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers 3.3 58.2% 4.0/5
Construction Laborers 3.1
Athletes and Sports Competitors 3.6 4.0/5
Terrazzo Workers and Finishers 3.0 51.4% 4.0/5
Structural Iron and Steel Workers 3.6
Commercial Divers 3.0
Adhesive Bonding Machine Operators and Tenders 3.0

Source: Anthropic Economic Index (2026-01-15-v4-plus-2025-03-27-v2) over a sample of Claude.ai Free and Pro conversations — not all AI tools and not the whole workforce. Shares are of observed conversations, weighted by how important this ability is to each role; some conversations are left unclassified by Anthropic's taxonomy, so shares need not sum to 100.

Industries that concentrate this

Where Dynamic Strength matters most across the economy. Employment reach is the share of an industry's workers in occupations that significantly rely on Dynamic Strength (O*NET importance ≥ 3 of 5). Concentration compares that reach to the national average industry, so a value above 1× means the requirement is more pervasive here than across the economy as a whole.

Nationally, about 1.8% of workers are in occupations that significantly rely on Dynamic Strength (measured across 52 industries).

Sectors with the most such workers

Sector Workers Employment reach
Construction 1,313,140 16.2%
Manufacturing 242,440 1.9%
Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation 232,340 8.8%
Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting 198,100 46.8%
Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services 174,620 1.9%
Other Services (except Public Administration) 132,340 3.0%
Health Care and Social Assistance 95,170 0.4%
Educational Services 36,500 0.3%
Retail Trade 35,870 0.2%
Wholesale Trade 34,970 0.6%
Transportation and Warehousing 21,010 0.3%
Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction 18,690 3.3%

Industries where it is most concentrated

Industry Level Concentration Employment reach
Masonry Contractors National industry 37.56× 67.6%
Poured Concrete Foundation and Structure Contractors National industry 31.06× 55.9%
Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting Sector 26× 46.8%
Fitness and Recreational Sports Centers National industry 17.78× 32.0%
Power and Communication Line and Related Structures Construction National industry 9.72× 17.5%
Construction Sector 16.2%
Other Building Equipment Contractors National industry 7.28× 13.1%
Drywall and Insulation Contractors National industry 5.67× 10.2%
Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation Sector 4.89× 8.8%
Offices of Chiropractors National industry 4.28× 7.7%
Landscaping Services National industry 3.56× 6.4%
Painting and Wall Covering Contractors National industry 2.28× 4.1%

Reach is a measure of how widespread a requirement is across an industry's workforce, not how intensively any individual uses it. Sector worker counts come from BLS OEWS employment; the significance threshold and tool use come from O*NET. Industries shown by concentration are filtered to a real worker base so a tiny specialty cannot top the list on rounding.

Capabilities required by many of the same occupations — a measure of which skills, knowledge and abilities tend to travel together, not a judgment of similarity.

Capability Type Shared occupations
Stamina Ability 33
Gross Body Coordination Ability 18
Gross Body Equilibrium Ability 21
Extent Flexibility Ability 37
Static Strength Ability 38
Trunk Strength Ability 40
Explosive Strength Ability 7
Multilimb Coordination Ability 39
Building and Construction Knowledge 20
Depth Perception Ability 16
Reaction Time Ability 20
Response Orientation Ability 9

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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Singulariki. "Dynamic Strength." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; Census NAICS 2022; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27). Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/abilities/dynamic-strength

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@misc{singulariki-dynamic-strength,
  title  = {Dynamic Strength},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; Census NAICS 2022; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27). Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/abilities/dynamic-strength}
}

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