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Occupation

Online Merchants

Conduct retail activities of businesses operating exclusively online. May perform duties such as preparing business strategies, buying merchandise, managing inventory, implementing marketing activities, fulfilling and shipping online orders, and balancing financial records.

89 AI exposure
23 Human advantage
65 Market demand
59 AI leverage

Is Online Merchants a safe career from AI?

Online Merchants scores 89 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 23, 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 65 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 Online Merchants pay

The median wage is $81,270 a year. The lower quarter earns under $60,820 and the upper quarter over $110,030. About 1,128,200 people do this work in the United States.

Where Online Merchants can go next

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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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