Jobs Data Methodology

The introvert jobs hub compares the demands of occupations. The ratings describe work, not personality or suitability for an individual.

Sources and matching

We use the O*NET 31.0 Database for work context ratings and core tasks, BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics for May 2025 pay, and BLS Employment Projections for 2025-35 growth, openings, education and training. Source file dates are 2026-08-30, 2026-04-30 and 2026-10-22, respectively. These are archive timestamps and workbook modification dates, not survey dates.

The pipeline keeps O*NET roles with all 7 social CX ratings. It groups role codes by their first 7 characters, the SOC occupation prefix. It matches that prefix exactly to the BLS OEWS code among detailed occupation rows. Groups without a matching OEWS row are dropped. Titles come from OEWS.

Within each group, each role has equal weight. We average each social rating across the roles, without weighting by employment or respondent count. Noise and answer shares are averaged across roles that have them. Pay comes directly from the matched OEWS row. Projections are joined by the same SOC code; missing projection values stay blank. Annual openings are converted from thousands to jobs for display and download.

The social index and exclusions

The social index combines contact with others, face-to-face discussions, phone conversations, public speaking, dealing with customers or the public, working in a team, conflict situations. Each group mean runs from 1 to 5. We subtract the lowest scale value, divide by the scale range and express the result as a percentage. Each percentage is rounded to 1 decimal place before the equal-weight average; the final index is rounded to the same precision. Lower means fewer social demands. Noise is separate.

The matched file contains 760 occupation groups. The hub and rankings use 743. We exclude 13 groups because a social rating has an O*NET suppression flag or a missing or zero respondent count. A flag on any role excludes its whole group. There are 5 groups with suppression flags and 9 with a missing or zero count; these categories can overlap. A further 4 groups have no numeric median wage. In total, 17 groups are excluded.

Limits

The index mixes amount, frequency and importance scales. It is a rough summary, so read the individual ratings. Group averages can hide differences between specialties. Field pages sometimes show a specialty's own O*NET ratings; any pay shown for it is for its parent occupation, as marked on the page. The recorded respondent count is the smallest count among the social ratings and roles, not a combined sample size. The exclusion check covers social ratings, not the separate noise rating.

The data covers US occupations and national pay and projections. It cannot describe a particular employer, team, shift or local wage. Projections are estimates of future employment and openings, not current vacancies. These sources cover different periods. The ratings do not measure remote-work availability or a worker's personality.

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Download the data

Download the introvert jobs CSV: 743 occupation groups, with social ratings, the social index, noise, median pay, growth, projected annual openings and entry education. It contains the same occupations as the hub table. Separately rated specialties on field pages are not included.

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