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Rate Control

Ability · O*NET work requirement

The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene.

In the O*NET occupational database, Rate Control 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 95 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 Rate Control

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 4.1 5.0
Commercial Pilots 3.9 4.0
Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers 3.9 4.0
Crane and Tower Operators 3.8 3.8
Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators, Surface Mining 3.8 3.8
Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders 3.8 3.1
Rolling Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic 3.8 3.6
Subway and Streetcar Operators 3.8 3.3
Tank Car, Truck, and Ship Loaders 3.8 3.1
Continuous Mining Machine Operators 3.6 3.5
Locomotive Engineers 3.6 3.8
Bus Drivers, Transit and Intercity 3.5 3.3
Crushing, Grinding, and Polishing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders 3.5 3.3
Earth Drillers, Except Oil and Gas 3.5 3.1
Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse 3.5 2.9
Glass Blowers, Molders, Benders, and Finishers 3.5 3.0
Logging Equipment Operators 3.5 3.3
Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators 3.5 3.4
Pile Driver Operators 3.5 3.4
Structural Iron and Steel Workers 3.5 3.1
Tire Builders 3.5 3.1
Adhesive Bonding Machine Operators and Tenders 3.4 3.1
Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic 3.4 3.1
Helpers--Extraction Workers 3.4 3.1
Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators 3.4 3.3
Rail Yard Engineers, Dinkey Operators, and Hostlers 3.4 3.0
Railroad Brake, Signal, and Switch Operators and Locomotive Firers 3.4 3.3
Rotary Drill Operators, Oil and Gas 3.4 3.3
Agricultural Equipment Operators 3.3 3.1
Captains, Mates, and Pilots of Water Vessels 3.3 3.1
Cutting and Slicing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders 3.3 3.1
Grinding, Lapping, Polishing, and Buffing Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic 3.3 3.0
Hoist and Winch Operators 3.3 2.6
Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Underground Mining 3.3 3.1
Machine Feeders and Offbearers 3.3 3.0
Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers 3.3 3.0
Paving, Surfacing, and Tamping Equipment Operators 3.3 3.3
Rail-Track Laying and Maintenance Equipment Operators 3.3 3.1
Roof Bolters, Mining 3.3 3.1
Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood 3.3 2.8

Showing the top 40 of 95 occupations where this is important.

How AI is used by roles that need Rate Control

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). 20.0% of the 95 roles where this is important carry observed AI-usage data (19 roles).

Across those roles, 29.1% of AI conversations are people working with AI and 43.9% hand a task to AI , with an average autonomy of 3.54 / 5.

Collaboration pattern Share What it means
directive 37.8% AI does it; you give the instruction
learning 19.6% you ask AI to explain or teach
task iteration 9.4% you and AI go back and forth
feedback loop 6.1% 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
Textile Cutting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders 3.0 27.2% 4.0/5
Subway and Streetcar Operators 3.8 51.9% 3.0/5
Textile Bleaching and Dyeing Machine Operators and Tenders 3.1 23.7% 3.0/5
Multiple Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic 3.0 18.6% 3.0/5
Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers 3.0 58.2% 4.0/5
Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers 3.9 38.1% 4.0/5
Electric Motor, Power Tool, and Related Repairers 3.0 32.2% 4.0/5
Machinists 3.1 25.4% 3.0/5
Construction Laborers 3.0
Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Except Engines 3.1 36.2% 4.0/5
Conveyor Operators and Tenders 3.0 4.0/5
Structural Iron and Steel Workers 3.5

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 Rate Control matters most across the economy. Employment reach is the share of an industry's workers in occupations that significantly rely on Rate Control (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 8.3% of workers are in occupations that significantly rely on Rate Control (measured across 60 industries).

Sectors with the most such workers

Sector Workers Employment reach
Transportation and Warehousing 3,201,120 43.3%
Manufacturing 3,000,460 23.5%
Construction 1,866,970 23.0%
Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services 994,240 11.0%
Wholesale Trade 986,500 16.3%
Retail Trade 505,760 3.2%
Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting 276,030 65.2%
Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction 262,350 45.7%
Educational Services 233,760 1.7%
Real Estate and Rental and Leasing 114,340 4.8%
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services 104,140 1.0%
Health Care and Social Assistance 98,670 0.4%

Industries where it is most concentrated

Industry Level Concentration Employment reach
Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting Sector 7.86× 65.2%
Poured Concrete Foundation and Structure Contractors National industry 7.51× 62.3%
Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction Sector 5.51× 45.7%
Machine Shops National industry 5.48× 45.5%
Power and Communication Line and Related Structures Construction National industry 5.23× 43.4%
Transportation and Warehousing Sector 5.22× 43.3%
Masonry Contractors National industry 3.42× 28.4%
Temporary Help Services National industry 2.86× 23.7%
Manufacturing Sector 2.83× 23.5%
Construction Sector 2.77× 23.0%
Wholesale Trade Sector 1.96× 16.3%
Other Building Equipment Contractors National industry 1.96× 16.3%

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
Reaction Time Ability 90
Auditory Attention Ability 65
Depth Perception Ability 56
Operation and Control Cross-functional skill 89
Response Orientation Ability 42
Multilimb Coordination Ability 89
Hearing Sensitivity Ability 41
Operations Monitoring Cross-functional skill 92
Control Precision Ability 94
Troubleshooting Cross-functional skill 50
Static Strength Ability 56
Manual Dexterity Ability 92

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. "Rate Control." 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/rate-control

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Singulariki. (2026). Rate Control. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/abilities/rate-control

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@misc{singulariki-rate-control,
  title  = {Rate Control},
  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/rate-control}
}

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