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Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products

Sell goods for wholesalers or manufacturers to businesses or groups of individuals. Work requires substantial knowledge of items sold.

83 AI exposure
32 Human advantage
61 Market demand
60 AI leverage

Is Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products a safe career from AI?

Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products scores 83 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 32, 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 61 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 Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products pay

The median wage is $66,780 a year. The lower quarter earns under $49,040 and the upper quarter over $97,570. About 1,266,860 people do this work in the United States.

Where Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products can go next

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

Online Merchants 83% of the skills carry over $81k median
Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents 83% of the skills carry over $78k median
Detectives and Criminal Investigators 76% of the skills carry over $94k median
Police Identification and Records Officers 75% of the skills carry over $94k 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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