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Counter and Rental Clerks

Receive orders, generally in person, for repairs, rentals, and services. May describe available options, compute cost, and accept payment.

65 AI exposure
35 Human advantage
62 Market demand
52 AI leverage

Is Counter and Rental Clerks a safe career from AI?

Counter and Rental Clerks scores 65 out of 100 for AI exposure, around the middle of the US labor market. Parts of this work overlap with what AI does well and parts do not.

Its human advantage score is 35, which is low. Most of this role can be done through a screen, and that is the half of the labor market AI has reached first. Market demand scores 62 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment roughly flat over ten years.

What Counter and Rental Clerks pay

The median wage is $38,540 a year. The lower quarter earns under $34,200 and the upper quarter over $48,290. About 398,620 people do this work in the United States.

Where Counter and Rental Clerks can go next

Occupations that share most of what this job already requires, ranked by how much carries over.

Insurance Appraisers, Auto Damage 80% of the skills carry over $77k median
Real Estate Brokers 78% of the skills carry over $72k median
Veterinarians 71% of the skills carry over $126k median
Radiation Therapists 72% of the skills carry over $102k median

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Where this comes from

Work content and transitions from O*NET, the US Department of Labor's occupational database. Wages and employment projections from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. AI exposure from published research measuring which occupations current AI capabilities overlap with. None of it is a forecast, and none of these numbers are ours: they are public data, put next to each other.

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