Will AI replace Door-to-Door Sales Workers, News and Street Vendors, and Related Workers?
Estimated risk score: 42 out of 100
Lower replacement risk
Estimate from published task research, not reviewed by a person · how we estimate
Within about 19 points for 4 in 5 of the jobs we checked (23 to 61).
For the occupation as a whole, from ratings of its 12 O*NET tasks published in 2023 and calibrated to our hand scores. A specialty inside it can sit higher or lower.
O*NET-SOC 41-9091.00 · Sales and Related
Tasks rated in 2023 as ones AI could do or speed up
Tasks a GPT-4-class model could do, or do in half the time or less: 4 of its 12 rated tasks. In O*NET’s words.
- Answer questions about product features and benefits.
- Write and record orders for merchandise or enter orders into computers.
- Develop prospect lists.
- Order or purchase supplies.
Tasks rated in 2023 as not sped up by AI
Tasks such a model was rated as not speeding up or taking over: 8 of its 12 rated tasks; the first 6 are shown. In O*NET’s words.
- Circulate among potential customers or travel by foot, truck, automobile, or bicycle to deliver or sell merchandise or services.
- Deliver merchandise and collect payment.
- Distribute product samples or literature that details products or services.
- Set up and display sample merchandise at parties or stands.
- Arrange buying parties and solicit sponsorship of such parties to sell merchandise.
- Explain products or services and prices and demonstrate use of products.
What the job is
Sell goods or services door-to-door or on the street.
Also called: Direct Sales Coach, Door-to-Door Sales Trainer, Independent Sales Associate, Hawker, Peddler, Huckster, Bumboater, Book Agent.
Closest jobs we score by hand
In the same field (Sales and Related). Different jobs, each scored by a person.
Source. This site includes information from the O*NET 30.1 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications. (O*NET, CC BY 4.0.) Task ratings: Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock (2023), “GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models”, data used under the MIT licence (licence texts). Our change: we averaged the ratings over this occupation’s tasks and calibrated them to our 0–100 scale. It is not a prediction about any one person and not career advice. Disagree? Write to hello@yourstopwashit.com. How we estimate