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The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.NBER working papers are circulated for discussion and comment purposes. They have not been peerreviewed or been subject to the review by the NBER Board of Directors that accompanies official NBER publications.

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This paper investigates trends in task usages within and between occupations, and the validity of assigning job task usages based on occupation code alone. Using data from the German Qualification and Career Survey, I assign analytical, interactive, and manual task usage levels to workers independent of their occupation. Task usages within occupation shifted nontrivially between the surveys considered, and individual characteristics such as age, education, gender, and hierarchical level differentially affect individual task usages and occupation‐mean task usages. Individual task usages are predictors of income, even when controlling for mean occupational task usages as well as worker and job characteristics.