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Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks

Verify and maintain records on incoming and outgoing shipments involving inventory. Duties include verifying and recording incoming merchandise or material and arranging for the transportation of products. May prepare items for shipment.

46 AI exposure
40 Human advantage
55 Market demand
43 AI leverage

Is Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks a safe career from AI?

Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks scores 46 out of 100 for AI exposure, which is low. Most of what this job involves is not the kind of task current AI systems are good at, largely because it happens in a physical place rather than on a screen.

Its human advantage score is 40. There is a real physical and in-person component to this work, alongside a good deal that could be done from anywhere. Market demand scores 55 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment falling 7.6% over ten years.

What Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks pay

The median wage is $43,190 a year. The lower quarter earns under $37,040 and the upper quarter over $49,390. About 857,630 people do this work in the United States.

Where Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks 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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