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Telemarketers

Solicit donations or orders for goods or services over the telephone.

90 AI exposure
21 Human advantage
37 Market demand
59 AI leverage

Is Telemarketers a safe career from AI?

Telemarketers scores 90 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 21, 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 37 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment falling 21.4% over ten years.

What Telemarketers pay

The median wage is $34,410 a year. The lower quarter earns under $29,120 and the upper quarter over $38,640. About 66,430 people do this work in the United States.

Where Telemarketers can go next

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

Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents 85% of the skills carry over $78k median
Real Estate Brokers 86% of the skills carry over $72k median
Compliance Managers 76% of the skills carry over $137k median
Radio Frequency Identification Device Specialists 74% of the skills carry over $128k 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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