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Clerical support workers · code 4321

Stock clerks

Stock clerks maintain records of goods produced and production materials received, weighed, issued, dispatched or put into stock. Tasks include - (a) arranging and controlling receipt and dispatch of goods and keeping relevant records; (b) maintaining stock records, verifying issue of goods, estimating needs and making requisitions of new stocks; (c) receiving, storing and issuing tools, spare parts or various equipment, and maintaining relevant records; (d) weighing goods received or produced, or for issue or dispatch, and maintaining relevant records; (e) compiling inventories of furniture and other items received for storage. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Dispatch clerk (stock) - Freight clerk - Stock clerk - Storeroom clerk - Weighing clerk

A few tasks are affected, but the heart of the job isn't. It ranks 296 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • inventory coordinator

Job titles from the EU's ESCO list. Search for any of them on the jobs page and you'll end up here.

63.1
Holds up
against AI Minimal Exposure

AI could take on 36.9 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 36.9 = 63.1

That's the whole sum, and you can check it against the ILO's study.

60.2
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, averaged across 3 US jobs

32.4
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 36.4 · hand skill 38.7 · cramped spaces 22.1 · averaged

Kind of hands-on work · hands-on 50+ · fiddly under 39.4 Hands-on, less fiddly work

Less fine handwork and fewer cramped spaces than a typical hands-on job. That clears one hurdle for machines. It doesn't mean machines are doing this work yet.

estimated O*NET 31.0 BLS occupational crosswalk chain ISCO-08 to 2010 SOC (Aug 2012, rev. Jun 2015); 2010 to 2018 SOC (Nov 2017); O*NET-SOC 2019 taxonomy data 0.7-work-setting measures chosen by Frey & Osborne (2017) · the grouping is a sorting, not a measurement

What this number leaves out This job rates 60.2 out of 100 for how hands-on it is. The score above only looks at AI tools, not robots, and for work like this robots are the bigger question.

The tasks behind the score

The score is the average of these. A job is really a bundle of tasks, and an average can hide how uneven that bundle is.

The task AI could do most of scores 43.3, while the average is 36.9. A big gap means some of this job is wide open to AI and some of it barely at all. That's quite different from a job where everything sits somewhere in the middle, even when the averages match.

  1. 43.3

    Maintaining stock records, verifying issue of goods, estimating needs and making requisitions of new stocks

    Low
  2. 38.5

    Arranging and controlling receipt and dispatch of goods and keeping relevant records

    Low
  3. 38.5

    Receiving, storing and issuing tools, spare parts, or various equipment and maintaining relevant records

    Low
  4. 37.8

    Compiling inventories of furniture and other items received for storage

    Low
  5. 26.5

    Weighing goods received or produced, or for issue or dispatch and maintaining relevant records

    Low

5 tasks · the High to Very Low labels are the ILO's

from the source Working Paper 140, Generative AI and Jobs 2025 index data 0.7-work-setting

Helped, or replaced?

The score above can't tell a tool that makes you faster from one that does the task instead of you. Jobs and Skills Australia looked at those two things separately, and this is their result, matched to this job.

4 Australian jobs match this one, and we've simply averaged them. Treat the numbers as a rough guide.

AI helps you
65.3
AI does it for you
47.3

Helping wins by 18 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 5911, 5912, 7129, 7411

Compared with similar jobs

There are 29 jobs in the “Clerical support workers” group, averaging 45.9. This one is above that.