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Coordination

Cross-functional skill · O*NET work requirement

Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.

In the O*NET occupational database, Coordination is a skill 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 663 of 894 occupations.

Breadth here means how widely O*NET rates this skill as important across occupations — not that it is rare, high-paying, or currently in employer demand.

Occupations that rely most on 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 skill the job needs (0–7).

Occupation Importance Score Level
Chief Executives 4.3 4.9
Chefs and Head Cooks 4.1 4.1
Human Resources Managers 4.1 4.0
Acute Care Nurses 4.0 3.9
Brownfield Redevelopment Specialists and Site Managers 4.0 4.1
Construction Managers 4.0 4.5
Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 4.0 4.5
Education and Childcare Administrators, Preschool and Daycare 4.0 4.0
Emergency Management Directors 4.0 5.0
Emergency Medicine Physicians 4.0 4.1
First-Line Supervisors of Correctional Officers 4.0 4.0
First-Line Supervisors of Material-Moving Machine and Vehicle Operators 4.0 3.9
First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers 4.0 3.8
Healthcare Social Workers 4.0 4.0
Industrial Production Managers 4.0 4.0
Information Technology Project Managers 4.0 4.1
Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses 4.0 4.0
Media Programming Directors 4.0 4.3
Media Technical Directors/Managers 4.0 4.0
Postmasters and Mail Superintendents 4.0 3.5
Preventive Medicine Physicians 4.0 4.5
Recreation Workers 4.0 4.0
Recreational Therapists 4.0 3.9
Registered Nurses 4.0 4.0
Spa Managers 4.0 4.0
Supply Chain Managers 4.0 4.0
Air Traffic Controllers 3.9 4.0
Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary School 3.9 3.5
Choreographers 3.9 4.0
Clinical Nurse Specialists 3.9 4.0
Clinical Research Coordinators 3.9 4.1
Coaches and Scouts 3.9 4.1
Critical Care Nurses 3.9 4.0
Dispatchers, Except Police, Fire, and Ambulance 3.9 3.6
Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education 3.9 3.8
First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers 3.9 3.9
First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers 3.9 4.0
First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers 3.9 4.0
First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives 3.9 4.0
Food Service Managers 3.9 3.9

Showing the top 40 of 663 occupations where this is important.

How AI is used by roles that need Coordination

This skill 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). 61.4% of the 663 roles where this is important carry observed AI-usage data (407 roles).

Across those roles, 47.3% of AI conversations are people working with AI and 31.4% hand a task to AI , with an average autonomy of 3.60 / 5.

Collaboration pattern Share What it means
directive 29.1% AI does it; you give the instruction
task iteration 24.1% you and AI go back and forth
learning 20.4% you ask AI to explain or teach
validation 2.7% you do it; AI checks your work
feedback loop 2.3% AI does it, then adjusts from your feedback

Roles behind this signal

The roles where this skill 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
English Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary 3.0 63.2% 4.0/5
Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary 3.0 63.2% 4.0/5
Educational, Guidance, School, and Vocational Counselors 3.6 70.6% 4.0/5
Editors 3.0 68.2% 4.0/5
Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary 3.0 65.2% 3.0/5
Instructional Coordinators 3.9 53.1% 4.0/5
Social Work Teachers, Postsecondary 3.5 67.2% 3.5/5
Technical Writers 3.0 54.2% 4.0/5
Recreation and Fitness Studies Teachers, Postsecondary 3.1 66.2% 3.3/5
Office Clerks, General 3.0 36.5% 3.0/5
Philosophy and Religion Teachers, Postsecondary 3.0 66.8% 3.3/5
Political Science Teachers, Postsecondary 3.1 65.7% 3.3/5

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 skill 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 Coordination matters most across the economy. Employment reach is the share of an industry's workers in occupations that significantly rely on 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 62.0% of workers are in occupations that significantly rely on Coordination (measured across 67 industries).

Sectors with the most such workers

Sector Workers Employment reach
Health Care and Social Assistance 15,921,310 68.9%
Educational Services 10,109,670 74.1%
Accommodation and Food Services 9,761,790 68.6%
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services 8,356,710 77.6%
Retail Trade 7,558,400 48.5%
Manufacturing 6,326,140 49.6%
Construction 5,908,860 72.8%
Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services 4,339,530 48.0%
Finance and Insurance 4,031,350 64.7%
Wholesale Trade 3,347,730 55.5%
Transportation and Warehousing 2,454,870 33.2%
Other Services (except Public Administration) 2,364,440 53.4%

Industries where it is most concentrated

Industry Level Concentration Employment reach
Veterinary Services National industry 1.52× 94.3%
Radio Broadcasting Stations National industry 1.5× 93.1%
Wind Electric Power Generation National industry 1.5× 93.1%
Television Broadcasting Stations National industry 1.49× 92.6%
Offices of Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapists, and Audiologists National industry 1.48× 91.9%
Offices of Optometrists National industry 1.48× 92.0%
Labor Unions and Similar Labor Organizations National industry 1.45× 90.0%
Nuclear Electric Power Generation National industry 1.44× 89.3%
Roofing Contractors National industry 1.43× 88.7%
Electrical Contractors and Other Wiring Installation Contractors National industry 1.42× 87.8%
Poured Concrete Foundation and Structure Contractors National industry 1.42× 88.2%
Exterminating and Pest Control Services National industry 1.42× 87.8%

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
Speech Clarity Ability 634
Speaking Basic skill 637
Speech Recognition Ability 638
Oral Expression Ability 655
Inductive Reasoning Ability 609
Monitoring Basic skill 618
Deductive Reasoning Ability 633
Active Listening Basic skill 645
Judgment and Decision Making Cross-functional skill 581
Critical Thinking Basic skill 631
Information Ordering Ability 644
Oral Comprehension Ability 659

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. "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/skills/coordination

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Singulariki. (2026). Coordination. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/skills/coordination

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@misc{singulariki-coordination,
  title  = {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/skills/coordination}
}

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