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Service and sales workers · code 5243

Door to door salespersons

Door-to-door salespersons describe, demonstrate and sell goods and services and solicit business for establishments by approaching or visiting potential customers, usually residents in private homes, by going from door to door. Tasks include - (a) giving details of various goods or services and of terms of sale by visiting clients and potential clients in private homes; (b) demonstrating or describing goods or services on offer; (c) recording orders and transactions and placing orders received with suppliers; (d) preparing invoices and sales contracts and accepting payment; (e) distributing letters, information sheets and other documents to clients; (f) compiling lists of prospective clients and calling on them to obtain new business; (g) travelling between sales areas and clients and transporting samples or goods for sale. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Door-to-door salesperson - Door-to-door sales representative - Party plan salesperson Some related occupations classified elsewhere: - Commercial sales representative - 3322 - Street vendor - 9520

A good share of the tasks are affected. It ranks 358 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • door to door seller

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

54.1
Holds up
against AI Exposed: Gradient 2

AI could take on 45.9 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 45.9 = 54.1

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

25.7
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, matched to one US job

8.6
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 10.7 · hand skill 3.6 · cramped spaces 11.5 · averaged

Kind of hands-on work · hands-on under 50 Less than half hands-on

Less than half of this job is hands-on. Robots still matter, but for a smaller part of the work, so we don't sort it any further.

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 25.7 out of 100 for how hands-on it is. The score above only looks at AI tools, not robots, but for work this far from the physical that matters less.

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 62, while the average is 45.9. 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. 62

    Compiling lists of prospective clients and calling on them to obtain new business

    Medium
  2. 58.5

    Recording orders and transactions and placing orders received with suppliers

    Medium
  3. 58.5

    Preparing invoices and sales contracts and accepting payment

    Medium
  4. 55.3

    Demonstrating or describing goods or services on offer

    Medium
  5. 46.5

    Giving details of various goods or services and of terms of sale by visiting clients and potential clients in private homes

    Low
  6. 25

    Distributing letters, information sheets and other documents to clients

    Low
  7. 15.3

    Travelling between sales areas and clients and transporting samples or goods for sale.

    Very Low

7 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.

One Australian job matches this one closely, so this is about as reliable as it gets here.

AI helps you
61
AI does it for you
42

Helping wins by 19 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 6217

Compared with similar jobs

There are 39 jobs in the “Service and sales workers” group, averaging 74.9. This one is below that.