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Information Ordering

Ability · O*NET work requirement

The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).

In the O*NET occupational database, Information Ordering 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 831 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 Information Ordering

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
File Clerks 4.3 3.0
Clinical Data Managers 4.1 4.0
Emergency Medicine Physicians 4.1 4.6
Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technologists 4.1 4.0
Nurse Anesthetists 4.1 4.0
Survey Researchers 4.1 4.1
Acute Care Nurses 4.0 4.0
Aerospace Engineers 4.0 4.0
Air Traffic Controllers 4.0 4.1
Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians 4.0 4.1
Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers 4.0 4.1
Architects, Except Landscape and Naval 4.0 4.0
Biochemists and Biophysicists 4.0 4.3
Bioinformatics Scientists 4.0 4.3
Biologists 4.0 4.0
Business Continuity Planners 4.0 4.0
Chefs and Head Cooks 4.0 3.8
Chemical Engineers 4.0 4.4
Chief Executives 4.0 4.1
Commercial Pilots 4.0 4.0
Computer Hardware Engineers 4.0 4.1
Computer Network Architects 4.0 4.1
Computer Systems Analysts 4.0 4.0
Construction Managers 4.0 4.3
Cytogenetic Technologists 4.0 4.0
Desktop Publishers 4.0 3.9
Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 4.0 4.0
Electronics Engineers, Except Computer 4.0 4.1
Energy Engineers, Except Wind and Solar 4.0 4.0
Farm and Home Management Educators 4.0 4.1
Food Scientists and Technologists 4.0 4.1
General Internal Medicine Physicians 4.0 4.1
Geodetic Surveyors 4.0 4.0
Government Property Inspectors and Investigators 4.0 4.0
Industrial Production Managers 4.0 4.0
Industrial-Organizational Psychologists 4.0 4.0
Intelligence Analysts 4.0 4.0
Logisticians 4.0 3.9
Logistics Engineers 4.0 4.0
Marine Engineers and Naval Architects 4.0 4.6

Showing the top 40 of 831 occupations where this is important.

How AI is used by roles that need Information Ordering

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). 58.2% of the 831 roles where this is important carry observed AI-usage data (484 roles).

Across those roles, 45.7% of AI conversations are people working with AI and 32.2% hand a task to AI , with an average autonomy of 3.58 / 5.

Collaboration pattern Share What it means
directive 29.7% AI does it; you give the instruction
task iteration 23.5% you and AI go back and forth
learning 19.4% you ask AI to explain or teach
validation 2.8% you do it; AI checks your work
feedback loop 2.5% AI does it, then adjusts from your feedback

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
Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary 3.5 63.2% 4.0/5
Editors 3.4 68.2% 4.0/5
Technical Writers 3.6 54.2% 4.0/5
Poets, Lyricists and Creative Writers 3.1 46.2% 4.0/5
Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary 3.0 65.2% 3.0/5
Educational, Guidance, School, and Vocational Counselors 3.4 70.6% 4.0/5
Instructional Coordinators 3.8 53.1% 4.0/5
Office Clerks, General 3.1 36.5% 3.0/5
Social Work Teachers, Postsecondary 3.3 67.2% 3.5/5
Recreation and Fitness Studies Teachers, Postsecondary 3.1 66.2% 3.3/5
Philosophy and Religion Teachers, Postsecondary 3.1 66.8% 3.3/5
Atmospheric, Earth, Marine, and Space Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary 3.4 66.3% 4.0/5

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 Information Ordering matters most across the economy. Employment reach is the share of an industry's workers in occupations that significantly rely on Information Ordering (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 79.9% of workers are in occupations that significantly rely on Information Ordering (measured across 67 industries).

Sectors with the most such workers

Sector Workers Employment reach
Health Care and Social Assistance 16,472,490 71.3%
Retail Trade 14,308,790 91.8%
Educational Services 10,423,830 76.4%
Manufacturing 10,103,630 79.2%
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services 9,763,310 90.7%
Accommodation and Food Services 8,701,190 61.1%
Construction 7,300,940 89.9%
Transportation and Warehousing 6,787,650 91.8%
Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services 6,017,540 66.6%
Finance and Insurance 5,820,900 93.5%
Wholesale Trade 5,464,640 90.5%
Other Services (except Public Administration) 3,407,410 77.0%

Industries where it is most concentrated

Industry Level Concentration Employment reach
Pharmacies and Drug Retailers National industry 1.24× 98.9%
Labor Unions and Similar Labor Organizations National industry 1.22× 97.7%
Insurance Agencies and Brokerages National industry 1.21× 97.0%
Poured Concrete Foundation and Structure Contractors National industry 1.21× 96.9%
Masonry Contractors National industry 1.21× 96.5%
Sporting Goods Retailers National industry 1.2× 95.9%
Television Broadcasting Stations National industry 1.2× 95.6%
Nuclear Electric Power Generation National industry 1.2× 96.1%
Electrical Contractors and Other Wiring Installation Contractors National industry 1.19× 94.9%
Power and Communication Line and Related Structures Construction National industry 1.19× 95.3%
Newspaper Publishers National industry 1.19× 95.2%
Fossil Fuel Electric Power Generation National industry 1.19× 95.2%

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
Near Vision Ability 828
Problem Sensitivity Ability 811
Oral Comprehension Ability 816
Deductive Reasoning Ability 782
Oral Expression Ability 805
Critical Thinking Basic skill 776
Active Listening Basic skill 786
Speech Recognition Ability 769
Speaking Basic skill 767
Monitoring Basic skill 745
Speech Clarity Ability 752
Inductive Reasoning Ability 732

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. "Information Ordering." 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/information-ordering

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Singulariki. (2026). Information Ordering. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/abilities/information-ordering

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@misc{singulariki-information-ordering,
  title  = {Information Ordering},
  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/information-ordering}
}

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