Retail Salespersons
Sales
SOC 41-2031
~3.6M US jobs
Median $33,000
OFI
30.6
transformation pressure
Recommendation & checkout automate; in-person help & physical tasks persist. — AIOE; Eloundou et al. 2023; modeled
Task transformation under adoption
Share of tasks automated / augmented / human, projected via Bass-diffusion adoption. Scenario, not a prediction.
Exposure profile
Representative tasks
- Assist shoppers
- Process sales
- Stock & merchandise
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We model task transformation, not job loss. OFI and its projections are scenario estimates grounded in published AI-exposure frameworks — model outputs, not predictions of employment outcomes.