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Gross Body Coordination

Ability · O*NET work requirement

The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion.

In the O*NET occupational database, Gross Body Coordination 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 31 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 Gross Body Coordination

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 4.8 5.5
Choreographers 4.1 5.3
Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors 3.9 3.8
Athletes and Sports Competitors 3.5 4.0
Fallers 3.4 3.3
Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers 3.4 3.5
Roofers 3.4 3.1
Derrick Operators, Oil and Gas 3.3 3.1
Helpers--Painters, Paperhangers, Plasterers, and Stucco Masons 3.1 2.9
Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse 3.1 2.9
Firefighters 3.1 3.3
Structural Iron and Steel Workers 3.1 3.1
Adapted Physical Education Specialists 3.0 3.0
Animal Trainers 3.0 2.9
Brickmasons and Blockmasons 3.0 2.8
Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers 3.0 2.8
Commercial Divers 3.0 3.1
Helpers--Extraction Workers 3.0 3.0
Helpers--Roofers 3.0 3.0
Insulation Workers, Mechanical 3.0 3.0
Maintenance and Repair Workers, General 3.0 2.9
Mechanical Door Repairers 3.0 2.9
Merchandise Displayers and Window Trimmers 3.0 2.6
Painters, Construction and Maintenance 3.0 3.0
Plasterers and Stucco Masons 3.0 2.8
Rail Car Repairers 3.0 2.9
Rail-Track Laying and Maintenance Equipment Operators 3.0 3.0
Reinforcing Iron and Rebar Workers 3.0 3.0
Riggers 3.0 2.9
Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers 3.0 2.9
Tree Trimmers and Pruners 3.0 2.9
Adhesive Bonding Machine Operators and Tenders 2.9 2.8
Cabinetmakers and Bench Carpenters 2.9 2.9
Carpet Installers 2.9 2.5
Drywall and Ceiling Tile Installers 2.9 2.9
Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers 2.9 2.8
Electricians 2.9 2.9
Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals 2.9 2.5
Fence Erectors 2.9 2.9
Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricators 2.9 2.9

How AI is used by roles that need Gross Body Coordination

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). 45.2% of the 31 roles where this is important carry observed AI-usage data (14 roles).

Across those roles, 42.7% of AI conversations are people working with AI and 19.4% hand a task to AI , with an average autonomy of 3.90 / 5.

Collaboration pattern Share What it means
task iteration 21.2% you and AI go back and forth
learning 20.0% you ask AI to explain or teach
directive 14.6% AI does it; you give the instruction
feedback loop 4.8% AI does it, then adjusts from your feedback
validation 1.4% 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
Choreographers 4.1 54.5% 4.0/5
Adapted Physical Education Specialists 3.0 55.1% 3.0/5
Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers 3.0 23.4% 4.0/5
Fitness Trainers and Aerobics Instructors 3.9 77.0% 4.0/5
Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers 3.0 58.2% 4.0/5
Maintenance and Repair Workers, General 3.0 40.7% 4.0/5
Merchandise Displayers and Window Trimmers 3.0 73.3% 4.0/5
Athletes and Sports Competitors 3.5 4.0/5
Painters, Construction and Maintenance 3.0
Roofers 3.4 4.0/5
Structural Iron and Steel Workers 3.1
Insulation Workers, Mechanical 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 Gross Body Coordination matters most across the economy. Employment reach is the share of an industry's workers in occupations that significantly rely on Gross Body Coordination (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 2.2% of workers are in occupations that significantly rely on Gross Body Coordination (measured across 63 industries).

Sectors with the most such workers

Sector Workers Employment reach
Construction 767,040 9.4%
Real Estate and Rental and Leasing 321,430 13.6%
Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation 286,240 10.8%
Manufacturing 249,090 2.0%
Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting 203,030 48.0%
Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services 183,400 2.0%
Educational Services 181,090 1.3%
Retail Trade 153,960 1.0%
Health Care and Social Assistance 148,340 0.6%
Accommodation and Food Services 139,620 1.0%
Wholesale Trade 130,050 2.2%
Information 117,220 4.0%

Industries where it is most concentrated

Industry Level Concentration Employment reach
Painting and Wall Covering Contractors National industry 31.82× 70.0%
Roofing Contractors National industry 23.36× 51.4%
Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting Sector 21.82× 48.0%
Masonry Contractors National industry 18.59× 40.9%
Poured Concrete Foundation and Structure Contractors National industry 16.09× 35.4%
Fitness and Recreational Sports Centers National industry 15.14× 33.3%
Other Building Equipment Contractors National industry 8.86× 19.5%
Real Estate and Rental and Leasing Sector 6.18× 13.6%
Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation Sector 4.91× 10.8%
Drywall and Insulation Contractors National industry 4.5× 9.9%
Construction Sector 4.27× 9.4%
Landscaping Services National industry 2.68× 5.9%

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
Gross Body Equilibrium Ability 26
Dynamic Strength Ability 18
Stamina Ability 25
Extent Flexibility Ability 30
Static Strength Ability 28
Building and Construction Knowledge 18
Trunk Strength Ability 31
Depth Perception Ability 14
Multilimb Coordination Ability 31
Speed of Limb Movement Ability 4
Explosive Strength Ability 4
Response Orientation Ability 8

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. "Gross Body Coordination." 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/gross-body-coordination

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@misc{singulariki-gross-body-coordination,
  title  = {Gross Body Coordination},
  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/gross-body-coordination}
}

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