Occupation
Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products
Purchase machinery, equipment, tools, parts, supplies, or services necessary for the operation of an establishment. Purchase raw or semifinished materials for manufacturing. May negotiate contracts.
Is Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products a safe career from AI?
Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products scores 100 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 24, 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.
Where Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products can go next
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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.