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Door-to-Door Sales Workers, News and Street Vendors, and Related Workers
Mostly untouched
AI barely touches this work so far. The BLS expects 10.4% fewer of these jobs by 2035.
- Rank
- #562 of 785 jobs, by how much of the work AI does
- US jobs, 2025 to 2035
- -10.4% All jobs: +3.5%
- Median US pay
- $41,380 a year, 2025
- People doing it
- 50,900 in the US, with about 4,800 openings a year
The work, 10 activities
The job description, marked up.
Every activity in this job, the biggest first. Tap a line for the evidence.
- deleAI does this
- +AIAI helps
- stetStill yours
AI helps with this: Promote products, services, or programs21%
People asked AI for help with this in about 1 in 715 conversations, and it got them there 92% of the time. In this job the work is hands-on, so AI can only assist.
Still yours: Direct organizational operations, activities, or procedures18%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
AI helps with this: Execute financial transactions15%
People asked AI for help with this in about 1 in 1,073 conversations, and it got them there 93% of the time.
Still yours: Sell products or services10%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
AI helps with this: Explain technical details of products or services10%
People asked AI for help with this in about 1 in 45 conversations, and it got them there 92% of the time. In this job the work is hands-on, so AI can only assist.
AI helps with this: Identify business or organizational opportunities8%
People asked AI for help with this in about 1 in 1,883 conversations, and it got them there 90% of the time.
AI does this: Respond to customer problems or inquiries7%
AI performed this in about 1 in 6 Copilot conversations and completed it 84% of the time.
AI helps with this: Purchase goods or services5%
People asked AI for help with this in about 1 in 214 conversations, and it got them there 91% of the time.
AI helps with this: Arrange displays or decorations5%
People asked AI for help with this in about 1 in 1,323 conversations, and it got them there 65% of the time.
Still yours: Stock supplies or products1%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
2025 to 2035
Ten years from now.
For every 100 of these jobs in 2025, the BLS projects 90 in 2035. Across all US jobs, about 104.
Even shrinking, it should still see about 4,800 openings a year as people retire or move on.
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deleAI does this. In US Bing Copilot conversations from January to September 2024, AI itself performed the activity, completed it and made a real difference often enough to count.
+AIAI helps. People brought the activity to AI as their own goal, and it usually got them there.
stetStill yours. It barely shows up in AI use, AI rarely finishes it, or in this job it needs hands.
Shares are weighted by how much each activity matters in the job, using O*NET. Microsoft’s own AI applicability score for this job is 0.26, higher than 82% of jobs.
Doing an activity is not doing a job. The researchers behind this data warn against reading it as job loss, and so do we. It is US data; the shape of the work travels.
Sources: Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025) · O*NET OnLine, 41-9091 · BLS Employment Projections 2025 to 2035
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