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Bureau of Labor Statistics > Occupational Requirements Survey > Publications > Factsheets

Identifying jobs with multiple job requirements

The Occupational Requirements Survey (ORS) publishes job-related information on physical demands; environmental conditions; education, training, and experience; as well as cognitive and mental requirements. The job requirements reflect those necessary for workers to perform critical tasks in support of the critical job functions, and not the capabilities of individual workers.

The ORS is designed to produce estimates of the percentage of workers that have individual job requirements. Estimates of the percentage of workers with combined job requirements are not available aside from a few select combinations in the Special Release Datasets published on the ORS data page. More information on the Special Release Datasets can be found in the August 2024 special release and Strength and specifical vocational preparation up to 1 month factsheets.

Locating jobs with multiple job requirements can be useful to job seekers, vocational and rehabilitation experts, safety and medical professionals, and the disability community and can be used to find relevant jobs for individuals with a specific set of skills or multiple limitations. Data from ORS can identify occupations that meet user-determined thresholds for multiple job requirements.

For example, consider the following occupational requirement thresholds:

One month or less (SVP 1 or SVP 2) is the minimum specific vocational preparation required for 30 percent or more of workers; and
Sedentary or light is the strength level required for 90 percent or more of workers; and
Quiet is the noise intensity level for 25 percent or more of workers; and
Supervisor is not present for 25 percent or more of workers.

In the ORS 2023 dataset, general office clerks and insurance sales agents are occupations that meet this combination of thresholds. The results can be recreated by using a pivot table to view multiple occupational requirements, see the pivot table guide for instructions. In cases where the threshold covers more than one estimate from an additive group (such as levels of strength or specific vocational preparation in this example), it will be necessary to add estimates before identifying occupations.

Once occupations meeting a combination of requirements are identified, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) can be used to find the total employment for those occupations. There are 2,517,350 general office clerks and 445,540 insurance sales agents in the national economy according to the 2022 OEWS. This approach provides the total employment in occupations that meet user-determined thresholds; it does not provide the number of jobs with the specific set of requirements. This is helpful for job seekers who would like to see the types and numbers of jobs available for their given set of skills and limitations. Calculating occupational employment for job requirements provides more information on estimating the percentage of workers that have multiple job requirements.

Range estimates

In instances where percentage of worker estimates cannot be published as point values, the estimate may be published as a range. Ranges incorporate the point estimate’s standard error to form a one-sided 90-percent confidence interval, rounded to the nearest 5 percent. For more information on ranges, see the range estimates factsheet. Thresholds can be applied to range estimates using the same method as above. Range estimates include a confidence interval around the estimate while point estimates do not. To have comparable thresholds for ranges and point estimates, users can build confidence intervals around point estimates prior to applying thresholds. More information on standard errors and confidence intervals is available on the ORS standard errors page.

Last Modified Date: August 13, 2026