Word processing software

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.

Showing the top 40 of 92 products in this category.

Occupations that use Word processing software

• Accountants and Auditors
• Actors
• Actuaries
• Acupuncturists
• Acute Care Nurses
• Adapted Physical Education Specialists
• Adhesive Bonding Machine Operators and Tenders
• Administrative Law Judges, Adjudicators, and Hearing Officers
• Administrative Services Managers
• Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors
• Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses
• Advertising Sales Agents
• Advertising and Promotions Managers
• Aerospace Engineering and Operations Technologists and Technicians
• Aerospace Engineers
• Agents and Business Managers of Artists, Performers, and Athletes
• Agricultural Engineers
• Agricultural Inspectors
• Agricultural Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary
• Agricultural Technicians
• Air Traffic Controllers
• Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors
• Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians
• Aircraft Service Attendants
• Aircraft Structure, Surfaces, Rigging, and Systems Assemblers
• Airfield Operations Specialists
• Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers
• Allergists and Immunologists
• Ambulance Drivers and Attendants, Except Emergency Medical Technicians
• Amusement and Recreation Attendants
• Anesthesiologist Assistants
• Anesthesiologists
• Animal Breeders
• Animal Caretakers
• Animal Control Workers
• Animal Scientists
• Animal Trainers
• Anthropologists and Archeologists
• Anthropology and Archeology Teachers, Postsecondary
• Appraisers and Assessors of Real Estate

Showing 40 of 789 occupations.

How AI is used by roles that use Word processing software

A software category is not itself "being automated" — but we can look at the roles that report using Word processing 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. 59.7% of the 789 roles that use this category carry observed AI-usage data (471 roles).

Across those roles, 59.6% of AI conversations are people working with AI and 34.9% hand a task to AI , with an average autonomy of 3.67 / 5.

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.

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 Word processing 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 Word processing software matters most across the economy. Employment reach is the share of an industry's workers in occupations that significantly use Word processing 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 80.6% of workers are in occupations that significantly use Word processing software (measured across 67 industries).

Sectors with the most such workers

Industries where it is most concentrated

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.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Census NAICS 2022 U.S. Census Bureau
• Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27) Anthropic
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic
• AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans academic

Data compiled June 3, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

@misc{singulariki-word-processing-software,
  title  = {Word processing 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/word-processing-software}
}