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Door-to-Door Sales Workers, News and Street Vendors, and Related Workers

Sell goods or services door-to-door or on the street.

90 AI exposure
25 Human advantage
40 Market demand
61 AI leverage

Is Door-to-Door Sales Workers, News and Street Vendors, and Related Workers a safe career from AI?

Door-to-Door Sales Workers, News and Street Vendors, and Related Workers scores 90 out of 100 for AI exposure, which is high. A large share of this work is the kind current AI systems are measurably good at. That is not a prediction the job disappears, and the research does not support one. It means more of this role is likely to change than most.

Its human advantage score is 25, 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 40 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment falling 10.4% over ten years.

What Door-to-Door Sales Workers, News and Street Vendors, and Related Workers pay

The median wage is $34,530 a year. The lower quarter earns under $31,200 and the upper quarter over $42,970. About 4,590 people do this work in the United States.

Where Door-to-Door Sales Workers, News and Street Vendors, and Related Workers can go next

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

Marketing Managers 75% of the skills carry over $161k median
Sales Managers 75% of the skills carry over $138k median
First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives 65% of the skills carry over $106k median
Administrative Services Managers 66% of the skills carry over $108k 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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