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Data compression software

Technology category · O*NET

Data compression software is a technology category in the O*NET database. Across U.S. occupations, 3 report using software or tools in this category. The named products below are the specific examples O*NET records for those jobs. The occupations that use it sit, on average, at the 95th percentile of AI task-exposure ( high) — how much that work overlaps with what AI can do, not a sign the tool is being replaced. See where every tool category sits.

A Hot tag marks technologies O*NET sees frequently in employer job postings; In demand marks tools an occupation specifically requires.

Example software & tools

Ranked by how many occupations list each product. Each number is an occupation count — a job is counted once per product — so the product rows overlap and do not sum to the category total.

Software / tool Occupations Tags
Arbor Image Draftsman 1
Corel WinZip 1
File compression software 1

Occupations that use Data compression software

How AI is used by roles that use Data compression software

A software category is not itself "being automated" — but we can look at the roles that report using Data compression software and ask how those people actually use AI. This rolls the Anthropic Economic Index per-role signal up across those roles, weighted by how much observed AI activity each one has. 66.7% of the 3 roles that use this category carry observed AI-usage data (2 roles).

Across those roles, 57.2% of AI conversations are people working with AI and 33.3% hand a task to AI , with an average autonomy of 2.93 / 5.

Collaboration pattern Share What it means
directive 33.3% AI does it; you give the instruction
learning 32.5% you ask AI to explain or teach
task iteration 22.4% you and AI go back and forth
validation 2.2% you do it; AI checks your work

Roles behind this signal

The roles using this category that have the most AEI data. "Works with AI" is the role's share of conversations that augment rather than automate.

Occupation Works with AI Autonomy
Eligibility Interviewers, Government Programs 63.4% 3.0/5
Cartographers and Photogrammetrists 20.4% 2.5/5

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. Roles list software categories in O*NET; this does not mean AI is used inside Data compression software, only that people in those roles use AI. Some conversations are left unclassified, so shares need not sum to 100.

Industries that concentrate this

Where Data compression software matters most across the economy. Employment reach is the share of an industry's workers in occupations that significantly use Data compression software (O*NET importance ≥ 3 of 5, or report using the tool category). 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 0.2% of workers are in occupations that significantly use Data compression software (measured across 48 industries).

Sectors with the most such workers

Sector Workers Employment reach
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services 137,640 1.3%
Information 43,140 1.5%
Finance and Insurance 29,040 0.5%
Management of Companies and Enterprises 26,860 1.0%
Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services 24,880 0.3%
Manufacturing 21,090 0.2%
Educational Services 18,760 0.1%
Health Care and Social Assistance 18,020 0.1%
Wholesale Trade 13,200 0.2%
Transportation and Warehousing 7,000 0.1%
Other Services (except Public Administration) 5,080 0.1%
Retail Trade 3,930 0.0%

Industries where it is most concentrated

Industry Level Concentration Employment reach
Information Sector 7.5× 1.5%
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services Sector 6.5× 1.3%
Management of Companies and Enterprises Sector 1.0%
Engineering Services National industry 4.5× 0.9%
Temporary Help Services National industry 0.6%
Finance and Insurance Sector 2.5× 0.5%
Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services Sector 1.5× 0.3%
Manufacturing Sector 0.2%
Wholesale Trade Sector 0.2%
Educational Services Sector 0.5× 0.1%
Health Care and Social Assistance Sector 0.5× 0.1%
Transportation and Warehousing Sector 0.5× 0.1%

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.

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 3, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

Cite this page
Plain

Singulariki. "Data compression software." 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); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/tools/data-compression-software

APA

Singulariki. (2026). Data compression software. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/tools/data-compression-software

BibTeX
@misc{singulariki-data-compression-software,
  title  = {Data compression software},
  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); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tools/data-compression-software}
}

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