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Elementary occupations · code 9520

Street vendors (excluding food)

Street vendors (excluding food) sell a usually limited range of goods (excluding food for immediate consumption) in streets and public places such as stations, cinemas or theatres. Tasks include - (a) buying or receiving items for sale, or making simple items; (b) loading and unloading baskets, trays, pushcarts, bicycles, hand-trucks or other vehicles, to transport goods to the streets or public places such as stations or cinemas; (c) displaying goods or calling out to attract customers’ attention; (d) approaching potential customers on streets, or by going from house to house, to offer goods for sale; (e) receiving immediate payment. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Hawker - Newspaper vendor - Pedlar Some related occupations classified elsewhere: - Market salesperson - 5211 - Street stall salesperson - 5211 - Street food vendor - 5212 - Door-to-door sales representative - 5243 - Free newspaper distributor - 9510 Notes Vendors from street and market stalls of fresh food products not intended for immediate consumption (such as fruit, vegetables, meat and dairy products) are classified in Unit Group 5211: Stall and Market Salespersons. Vendors from street and market stalls of a variety of prepared meals and food items for immediate consumption are classified in Unit Group 5246: Food Service Counter Attendants. Vendors in streets and public places of food and beverages for immediate consumption from pushcarts, trucks, trays or baskets are classified in Unit Group 5212: Street Food Salespersons. Vendors in streets and public places of non-food items (or of pre-packaged non-perishable food items such as confectionery) from pushcarts, trucks, trays or baskets are classified in Unit Group 9520: Street Vendors (excluding food).

None of this job's tasks scored high enough to count. It ranks 150 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • hawker

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79.5
Holds up
against AI Not Exposed

AI could take on 20.5 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 20.5 = 79.5

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 35.5, while the average is 20.5. 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. 35.5

    Receiving immediate payment.

    Low
  2. 24

    Buying or receiving items for sale, or making simple items

    Very Low
  3. 21.3

    Displaying goods or calling out to attract customer’s attention

    Very Low
  4. 11.8

    Approaching potential customers on streets, or by going from house to house, to offer goods for sale

    Very Low
  5. 9.8

    Loading and unloading baskets, trays, push-carts, bicycles, hand-trucks or other vehicles, to transport goods to the streets or public places such as stations or cinemas

    Very 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.

One Australian job matches, but only partly: not everyone in it does this job. Treat the numbers as a rough guide.

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 33 jobs in the “Elementary occupations” group, averaging 85.2. This one is below that.