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Management of Financial Resources

Cross-functional skill · O*NET work requirement

Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.

In the O*NET occupational database, Management of Financial Resources 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 41 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 Management of Financial Resources

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 5.3
Treasurers and Controllers 4.0 5.0
Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products 3.8 3.6
Construction Managers 3.6 4.1
Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 3.6 4.0
Security Managers 3.6 3.6
Training and Development Managers 3.6 3.6
Budget Analysts 3.4 3.9
Industrial Production Managers 3.4 4.0
Compensation and Benefits Managers 3.3 3.8
Fundraising Managers 3.3 3.6
Geothermal Production Managers 3.3 3.8
Medical and Health Services Managers 3.3 3.6
Purchasing Managers 3.3 3.6
Wholesale and Retail Buyers, Except Farm Products 3.3 3.4
Biomass Power Plant Managers 3.1 3.6
Brownfield Redevelopment Specialists and Site Managers 3.1 3.8
Chefs and Head Cooks 3.1 3.3
Cost Estimators 3.1 3.6
Education Administrators, Postsecondary 3.1 3.1
Education and Childcare Administrators, Preschool and Daycare 3.1 3.3
Environmental Economists 3.1 3.3
Financial Managers 3.1 3.6
Human Resources Managers 3.1 4.0
Information Technology Project Managers 3.1 3.6
Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents 3.1 2.8
Spa Managers 3.1 3.8
Wind Energy Development Managers 3.1 3.5
Biofuels Production Managers 3.0 3.1
Computer and Information Systems Managers 3.0 3.4
Dentists, General 3.0 3.0
Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers 3.0 3.4
Food Service Managers 3.0 3.0
Fundraisers 3.0 3.1
General and Operations Managers 3.0 3.4
Hydroelectric Production Managers 3.0 3.4
Logistics Engineers 3.0 3.3
Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners 3.0 3.1
Producers and Directors 3.0 3.6
Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Managers 3.0 3.0

Showing the top 40 of 41 occupations where this is important.

How AI is used by roles that need Management of Financial Resources

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). 73.2% of the 41 roles where this is important carry observed AI-usage data (30 roles).

Across those roles, 45.9% of AI conversations are people working with AI and 31.1% hand a task to AI , with an average autonomy of 3.63 / 5.

Collaboration pattern Share What it means
task iteration 32.5% you and AI go back and forth
directive 30.0% AI does it; you give the instruction
learning 11.9% you ask AI to explain or teach
validation 1.5% you do it; AI checks your work
feedback loop 1.1% 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
Chief Executives 4.3 65.7% 3.0/5
Education Administrators, Elementary and Secondary School 3.6 56.5% 4.0/5
Computer and Information Systems Managers 3.0 67.7% 4.0/5
Training and Development Managers 3.6 54.9% 4.0/5
Fundraisers 3.0 57.7% 3.0/5
Education Administrators, Postsecondary 3.1 54.3% 4.0/5
Medical and Health Services Managers 3.3 49.5% 4.0/5
Treasurers and Controllers 4.0 56.2% 4.0/5
Logistics Engineers 3.0 52.3% 4.0/5
Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Managers 3.0 49.0% 3.0/5
Human Resources Managers 3.1 47.7% 4.0/5
Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products 3.8 30.0% 3.0/5

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 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 Management of Financial Resources matters most across the economy. Employment reach is the share of an industry's workers in occupations that significantly rely on Management of Financial Resources (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 6.6% of workers are in occupations that significantly rely on Management of Financial Resources (measured across 67 industries).

Sectors with the most such workers

Sector Workers Employment reach
Finance and Insurance 1,129,670 18.1%
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services 1,028,530 9.6%
Health Care and Social Assistance 970,520 4.2%
Educational Services 770,830 5.7%
Construction 734,480 9.0%
Manufacturing 693,030 5.4%
Accommodation and Food Services 626,180 4.4%
Retail Trade 618,090 4.0%
Wholesale Trade 530,200 8.8%
Management of Companies and Enterprises 486,910 17.3%
Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services 438,370 4.9%
Real Estate and Rental and Leasing 412,340 17.4%

Industries where it is most concentrated

Industry Level Concentration Employment reach
Finance and Insurance Sector 2.74× 18.1%
Real Estate and Rental and Leasing Sector 2.64× 17.4%
Management of Companies and Enterprises Sector 2.62× 17.3%
Labor Unions and Similar Labor Organizations National industry 1.97× 13.0%
Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities National industry 1.61× 10.6%
Information Sector 1.53× 10.1%
Roofing Contractors National industry 1.47× 9.7%
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services Sector 1.45× 9.6%
Construction Sector 1.36× 9.0%
Wholesale Trade Sector 1.33× 8.8%
Insurance Agencies and Brokerages National industry 1.33× 8.8%
Direct Health and Medical Insurance Carriers National industry 1.32× 8.7%

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
Management of Material Resources Cross-functional skill 19
Economics and Accounting Knowledge 30
Personnel and Human Resources Knowledge 29
Management of Personnel Resources Cross-functional skill 34
Negotiation Cross-functional skill 37
Number Facility Ability 29
Persuasion Cross-functional skill 40
Systems Evaluation Cross-functional skill 39
Mathematics Basic skill 28
Mathematical Reasoning Ability 30
Systems Analysis Cross-functional skill 37
Administration and Management Knowledge 40

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. "Management of Financial Resources." 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/management-of-financial-resources

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Singulariki. (2026). Management of Financial Resources. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/skills/management-of-financial-resources

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@misc{singulariki-management-of-financial-resources,
  title  = {Management of Financial Resources},
  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/management-of-financial-resources}
}

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