Glossary

Routine work share

The share of an occupation's tasks that are rules-based and repeatable enough to be specified as a procedure, making them the first candidates for software assignment.

What this means in practice

Routine work share is one of the inputs in the public rollup formula. It captures how much of a job can be written down as a procedure — if-then rules, standard forms, fixed sequences — because procedural work is what software absorbs most readily.

Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks have a high routine share: wage computation and paycheck processing follow explicit rules. Construction Managers have a low one: every site, crew, and weather delay is different. The metric helps explain why two office jobs can diverge sharply in pressure.

In the data

See this term in the occupation data

These published occupation pages show routine work share in action — with task-level exposure, automation and augmentation scores, wage context, and transition pathways.