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Elementary occupations · code 9510

Street and related service workers

Street and related services workers provide a variety of services on streets and in other public places, including cleaning shoes, washing car windows, running errands, handing out leaflets, looking after property, and providing other on-the-spot street services. Tasks include - (a) obtaining the materials necessary to perform services; (b) approaching people on the street to offer services; (c) cleaning and polishing shoes; (d) cleaning and polishing car windows; (e) running errands; (f) assisting car drivers to find a parking place and ensuring that the car is not damaged during the driver’s absence; (g) handing out leaflets and free newspapers; (h) receiving immediate payment. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Car window washer - Car guard - Errand boy - Free newspaper distributor - Leaflet distributor - Shoe-polisher Some related occupations classified elsewhere: - Service station attendant - 5245 - Leaflet and newspaper deliverer - 9621

None of this job's tasks scored high enough to count. It ranks 115 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • leaflet distributor

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82.1
Holds up
against AI Not Exposed

AI could take on 17.9 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 17.9 = 82.1

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

This number is probably too high

This score only looks at AI tools like chatbots. It doesn't look at robots at all — and this is hands-on work, which is exactly where robots come in.

Have a look at the tasks below and judge for yourself. The ILO scored them low because a chatbot can't do them. Whether a machine with hands could is a different question, and we can't answer it yet.

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 33.5, while the average is 17.9. 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. 33.5

    Receiving immediate payment.

    Low
  2. 26

    Assisting car drivers to find a parking place and ensuring that the car is not damaged during driver’s absence

    Low
  3. 19.5

    Obtaining the materials necessary to perform services

    Very Low
  4. 18.5

    Running errands

    Very Low
  5. 15.5

    Approaching people on the street to offer services

    Very Low
  6. 13.5

    Cleaning and polishing shoes

    Very Low
  7. 8.3

    Cleaning and polishing car windows

    Very Low
  8. 8.3

    Handing out leaflets and free newspapers

    Very Low

8 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
41
AI does it for you
20

Helping wins by 21 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 8999

Compared with similar jobs

There are 33 jobs in the “Elementary occupations” group, averaging 85.1. This one is below that.