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Documenting/Recording Information

Work activity group · O*NET

Documenting/Recording Information is one of the 41 Generalized Work Activities at the top of O*NET's work-activity hierarchy — the broadest description of what people do on the job, sitting above the more specific intermediate and detailed work activities. Across the 894 occupations O*NET rates on it, it scores an average importance of 3.64 of 5 — 82nd percentile among all activity groups.

Intermediate activities it contains

The intermediate work activities O*NET groups under Documenting/Recording Information, ranked by how many occupations perform each. Each links to its own page.

Intermediate activity Occupations AI applied
Maintain operational records 409 37th pct
Present research or technical information 125 98th pct
Prepare informational or instructional materials 99 97th pct
Maintain health or medical records 95 12th pct
Prepare reports of operational or procedural activities 93 66th pct
Prepare proposals or grant applications 83 43rd pct
Prepare documentation for contracts, applications, or permits 69 60th pct
Document technical designs, procedures, or activities 54 82nd pct
Write material for artistic or commercial purposes 52 95th pct
Prepare financial documents, reports, or budgets 49 41st pct
Prepare legal or regulatory documents 47 39th pct
Maintain sales or financial records 41 24th pct
Prepare health or medical documents 40 41st pct
Record information about legal matters 28 31st pct
Record images with photographic or audiovisual equipment 15 35th pct
Record information about environmental conditions 3 35th pct

How AI is applied to this activity group

Microsoft's "Working with AI" study measured how often an AI assistant performs each work activity in real Bing Copilot conversations. Averaged across the 16 intermediate activities under Documenting/Recording Information that the study measured, this group ranks in the 52nd percentile for how frequently AI is applied — a description of how AI is used today, not a forecast that the activity will be automated.

The figure is the mean of the child activities' applied-percentiles; open any activity above to see its underlying Microsoft measurements. Every occupation blends many activities, so a high AI-applied rank for one group does not mean a job is being automated.

Occupations that rely on this activity group most

Ranked by O*NET importance rating (1–5) for Documenting/Recording Information. Wages are BLS OEWS May 2024 national medians.

Occupation Importance Median pay Employment
Family Medicine Physicians 4.96 $238,380 107,950
Urologists 4.94 — 315,360
Speech-Language Pathologists 4.94 $95,410 178,790
Registered Nurses 4.86 $93,600 3,282,010
Athletic Trainers 4.86 $60,250 28,950
Nurse Midwives 4.82 $128,790 8,280
Coroners 4.80 $78,420 397,770
Hospitalists 4.80 — 315,360
Physical Therapist Assistants 4.79 $65,510 108,010
Occupational Therapy Assistants 4.79 $68,340 47,910
Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses 4.78 $93,600 3,282,010
Quality Control Systems Managers 4.78 $121,440 234,380
Physician Assistants 4.78 $133,260 155,540
Gambling Surveillance Officers and Gambling Investigators 4.78 $43,900 10,000
Public Safety Telecommunicators 4.77 $50,730 101,140
General Internal Medicine Physicians 4.77 $236,350 66,640
Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners 4.77 $67,310 12,630
Naturopathic Physicians 4.76 $113,730 30,870
Marriage and Family Therapists 4.75 $63,780 65,870
Biochemists and Biophysicists 4.75 $103,650 34,520
Clinical Neuropsychologists 4.75 $117,580 17,790
Allergists and Immunologists 4.74 — 315,360
Nurse Practitioners 4.74 $129,210 307,390
Archivists 4.74 $61,570 7,050
Occupational Therapists 4.73 $98,340 152,280
Emergency Medicine Physicians 4.72 — 33,680
Opticians, Dispensing 4.71 $46,560 79,690
Optometrists 4.71 $134,830 41,890
First-Line Supervisors of Correctional Officers 4.70 $76,310 53,390
Physical Therapists 4.68 $101,020 248,630
Nurse Anesthetists 4.68 $223,210 50,350
Aviation Inspectors 4.68 $85,750 23,320
Anthropology and Archeology Teachers, Postsecondary 4.68 $95,770 5,260
Prosthodontists 4.67 — 760
Medical Assistants 4.65 $44,200 793,460
Biological Technicians 4.65 $52,000 76,190
Pediatricians, General 4.65 $210,130 42,960
Transit and Railroad Police 4.65 $82,320 3,000
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Physicians 4.64 — 315,360
Ophthalmologists, Except Pediatric 4.64 — 12,110
Neurodiagnostic Technologists 4.63 $48,790 174,060
Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians 4.63 $78,680 136,390
Medical Equipment Preparers 4.63 $46,490 72,760
Obstetricians and Gynecologists 4.63 — 19,900
Podiatrists 4.63 $152,800 9,520
Neurologists 4.63 — 7,700
Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers 4.62 $54,980 48,170
Dermatologists 4.62 — 10,080
Veterinary Assistants and Laboratory Animal Caretakers 4.61 $37,320 114,190
Ophthalmic Medical Technologists 4.60 $48,790 174,060
Orthoptists 4.60 $113,730 30,870
Neuropsychologists 4.60 $117,580 17,790
Respiratory Therapists 4.59 $80,450 136,420
Audiologists 4.59 $92,120 14,730
Fire Inspectors and Investigators 4.59 $78,060 14,050
Physicians, Pathologists 4.59 — 11,800
Child, Family, and School Social Workers 4.58 $58,570 382,960
Geneticists 4.58 $93,330 59,710
Radiation Therapists 4.58 $101,990 18,700
Animal Control Workers 4.58 $45,830 11,790

Showing 60 of 894 occupations.

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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Plain

Singulariki. "Documenting/Recording Information." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; Microsoft “Working with AI” working-with-ai. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/activity-groups/documenting-recording-information

APA

Singulariki. (2026). Documenting/Recording Information. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/activity-groups/documenting-recording-information

BibTeX 
@misc{singulariki-documenting-recording-information,
  title  = {Documenting/Recording Information},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; Microsoft “Working with AI” working-with-ai. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/activity-groups/documenting-recording-information}
}

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