Estimate costs of products, services, or materials.

Estimate costs of products, services, or materials. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 8 occupations and seen in 8 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Determine values or prices of goods or services. in Making Decisions and Solving Problems .

Detailed work activities are the most granular shared layer in O*NET's work-activity hierarchy (Generalized → Intermediate → Detailed → occupation-specific task). The figures below describe how this activity shows up across the economy and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the work will be automated.

AI exposure

Of the 8 tasks under this activity that the OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rated, 8 (100%) are flagged as directly exposed to language models (E1) or exposed via model-powered tools (E2).

The Anthropic Economic Index observes real AI use on 1 of these tasks, with a mean mapped-usage share of 0.002% per task.

Exposure estimates overlap with model capabilities — whether a model could speed the task up — not whether the work will be done by software. Observed AI use is augmentation and assistance today, not jobs replaced.

Member tasks

Occupation-specific tasks O*NET maps to this detailed work activity, most important first.

• Estimate the costs of requested products or services such as custom footwear or footwear repair, and receive payment from customers. · Shoe and Leather Workers and Repairers · importance 4.3 · exposure with tools
• Compute costs of labor and materials to determine production costs of products and articles. · Jewelers and Precious Stone and Metal Workers · importance 4.3 · direct LLM exposure
• Estimate the amounts, types, or costs of needed materials. · Cabinetmakers and Bench Carpenters · importance 4.3 · exposure with tools
• Estimate costs for patternmaking jobs. · Patternmakers, Wood · importance 4.1 · direct LLM exposure
• Estimate how much a garment will cost to make, based on factors such as time and material requirements. · Tailors, Dressmakers, and Custom Sewers · importance 4.0 · direct LLM exposure
• Discuss upholstery fabrics, colors, and styles with customers, and provide cost estimates. · Upholsterers · importance 4.0 · direct LLM exposure
• Assess fees related to registration of property-related documents. · Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers · importance 3.4 · exposure with tools
• Estimate cost of restoration work. · Museum Technicians and Conservators · importance 3.1 · exposure with tools

Occupations that perform this

• Shoe and Leather Workers and Repairers
• Jewelers and Precious Stone and Metal Workers
• Cabinetmakers and Bench Carpenters
• Patternmakers, Wood
• Tailors, Dressmakers, and Custom Sewers
• Upholsterers
• Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers
• Museum Technicians and Conservators

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.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27) Anthropic
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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  title  = {Estimate costs of products, services, or materials.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
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