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Glare Sensitivity

Ability · O*NET work requirement

The ability to see objects in the presence of a glare or bright lighting.

In the O*NET occupational database, Glare Sensitivity 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 11 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 Glare Sensitivity

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
Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers 3.6 4.3
Captains, Mates, and Pilots of Water Vessels 3.3 3.8
Commercial Pilots 3.1 3.5
Motorboat Operators 3.1 3.6
Bus Drivers, Transit and Intercity 3.0 2.8
Crane and Tower Operators 3.0 3.0
Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers 3.0 2.9
Locomotive Engineers 3.0 2.9
Metal-Refining Furnace Operators and Tenders 3.0 2.9
Sailors and Marine Oilers 3.0 3.5
Structural Iron and Steel Workers 3.0 2.8
Bridge and Lock Tenders 2.9 3.0
Derrick Operators, Oil and Gas 2.9 2.6
Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators, Surface Mining 2.9 2.9
Fishing and Hunting Workers 2.9 3.0
Pile Driver Operators 2.9 2.9
Rail-Track Laying and Maintenance Equipment Operators 2.9 2.9
Bus Drivers, School 2.8 2.3
Helpers--Extraction Workers 2.8 2.8
Rail Yard Engineers, Dinkey Operators, and Hostlers 2.8 2.9
Refuse and Recyclable Material Collectors 2.8 2.1
Roof Bolters, Mining 2.8 2.8
Subway and Streetcar Operators 2.8 2.9
Tank Car, Truck, and Ship Loaders 2.8 2.8
Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers 2.6 2.4
Automotive Glass Installers and Repairers 2.6 2.6
Continuous Mining Machine Operators 2.6 2.6
Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door 2.6 2.3
Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers 2.6 2.3
Firefighters 2.6 2.8
Fish and Game Wardens 2.6 3.0
Millwrights 2.6 2.5
Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Except Engines 2.6 2.3
Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers 2.6 2.8
Septic Tank Servicers and Sewer Pipe Cleaners 2.6 2.5
Shuttle Drivers and Chauffeurs 2.6 2.5
Conveyor Operators and Tenders 2.5 2.3
Couriers and Messengers 2.5 2.3
Dredge Operators 2.5 2.6
First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers 2.5 2.4

How AI is used by roles that need Glare Sensitivity

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). 18.2% of the 11 roles where this is important carry observed AI-usage data (2 roles).

Across those roles, 38.1% of AI conversations are people working with AI and 40.5% hand a task to AI , with an average autonomy of 4.00 / 5.

Collaboration pattern Share What it means
directive 40.5% AI does it; you give the instruction
task iteration 38.1% you and AI go back and forth

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
Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers 3.0 38.1% 4.0/5
Structural Iron and Steel Workers 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 Glare Sensitivity matters most across the economy. Employment reach is the share of an industry's workers in occupations that significantly rely on Glare Sensitivity (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 1.7% of workers are in occupations that significantly rely on Glare Sensitivity (measured across 45 industries).

Sectors with the most such workers

Sector Workers Employment reach
Transportation and Warehousing 1,448,970 19.6%
Wholesale Trade 274,790 4.6%
Construction 209,000 2.6%
Manufacturing 197,100 1.5%
Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services 116,640 1.3%
Retail Trade 71,030 0.5%
Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction 35,240 6.1%
Real Estate and Rental and Leasing 33,060 1.4%
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services 20,230 0.2%
Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting 14,660 3.5%
Other Services (except Public Administration) 14,350 0.3%
Management of Companies and Enterprises 10,100 0.4%

Industries where it is most concentrated

Industry Level Concentration Employment reach
Transportation and Warehousing Sector 11.53× 19.6%
Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction Sector 3.59× 6.1%
Wholesale Trade Sector 2.71× 4.6%
Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting Sector 2.06× 3.5%
Construction Sector 1.53× 2.6%
Poured Concrete Foundation and Structure Contractors National industry 1.35× 2.3%
Manufacturing Sector 0.88× 1.5%
Real Estate and Rental and Leasing Sector 0.82× 1.4%
Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services Sector 0.76× 1.3%
Landscaping Services National industry 0.41× 0.7%
Retail Trade Sector 0.29× 0.5%
Temporary Help Services National industry 0.29× 0.5%

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
Peripheral Vision Ability 5
Spatial Orientation Ability 9
Night Vision Ability 3
Response Orientation Ability 10
Depth Perception Ability 11
Rate Control Ability 11
Hearing Sensitivity Ability 8
Sound Localization Ability 1
Auditory Attention Ability 10
Reaction Time Ability 11
Transportation Knowledge 8
Time Sharing Ability 10

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. "Glare Sensitivity." 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/glare-sensitivity

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Singulariki. (2026). Glare Sensitivity. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/abilities/glare-sensitivity

BibTeX
@misc{singulariki-glare-sensitivity,
  title  = {Glare Sensitivity},
  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/glare-sensitivity}
}

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