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Occupation

Real Estate Sales Agents

Rent, buy, or sell property for clients. Perform duties such as study property listings, interview prospective clients, accompany clients to property site, discuss conditions of sale, and draw up real estate contracts. Includes agents who represent buyer.

84 AI exposure
28 Human advantage
59 Market demand
59 AI leverage

Is Real Estate Sales Agents a safe career from AI?

Real Estate Sales Agents scores 84 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 28, 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 59 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 Real Estate Sales Agents pay

The median wage is $56,320 a year. The lower quarter earns under $38,940 and the upper quarter over $85,440. About 190,600 people do this work in the United States.

Where Real Estate Sales Agents can go next

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

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Loss Prevention Managers 83% of the skills carry over $137k 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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