Will AI replace Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products?
Estimated risk score: 63 out of 100
Moderate 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 (44 to 82).
Account Executive? We score that job by hand: 50/100
For the occupation as a whole, from ratings of its 19 O*NET tasks published in 2023 and calibrated to our hand scores. A specialty inside it can sit higher or lower.
O*NET-SOC 41-4012.00 · 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: 8 of its 19 rated tasks; the first 6 are shown. In O*NET’s words.
- Estimate or quote prices, credit or contract terms, warranties, and delivery dates.
- Perform administrative duties, such as preparing sales budgets and reports, keeping sales records, and filing expense account reports.
- Prepare sales contracts and order forms.
- Forward orders to manufacturers.
- Answer customers' questions about products, prices, availability, product uses, and credit terms.
- Monitor market conditions, product innovations, and competitors' products, prices, and sales.
Tasks rated in 2023 as not sped up by AI
Tasks such a model was rated as not speeding up or taking over: 0 of its 19 rated tasks. In O*NET’s words.
None of its rated tasks.
What the job is
Sell goods for wholesalers or manufacturers to businesses or groups of individuals. Work requires substantial knowledge of items sold.
Also called: Consignee, Metal Dealer, Scrap Dealer, Wool Merchant, Diamond Broker, Textile Broker, Oil Distributor, Pulpwood Dealer.
Scored by hand
We score Account Executive (50) by hand: a related job, so the numbers can differ.
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