Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products
Sell goods for wholesalers or manufacturers where technical or scientific knowledge is required in such areas as biology, engineering, chemistry, and electronics, normally obtained from at least 2 years of postsecondary education.
Also known as: Aircraft Sales Representative · Chemical Sales Representative · Computer Sales Representative · Abrasives Sales Representative · Agricultural Sales Representative · Commercial Solar Sales Consultant
This score estimates how exposed the tasks in a role are to current and near-term AI capabilities. It does not predict whether a specific person will lose a job.
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Most exposed task
Maintain customer records, using automated systems.
Automatable 85/100 exposure
Most durable task
Stock or distribute resources, such as samples or promotional or educational materials.
Durable 20/100 exposure
Useful next step
Make one change to the task mix
Compare one real week with the exposed tasks, test one supervised delegation, and redirect the saved time toward more durable work.
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Highest structured exposure values in this role’s task mix — the work AI systems can already do most of.
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Maintain customer records, using automated systems.85
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Complete expense reports, sales reports, or other paperwork.80
Augmentable tasks
Work where AI assists rather than replaces — the productivity frontier of this role.
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Prepare and submit sales contracts for orders.65
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Compute customer's installation or production costs and estimate savings from new services, products, or equipment.65
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Inform customers of estimated delivery schedules, service contracts, warranties, or other information pertaining to purchased products.65
Most durable tasks
Lowest exposure — typically judgment, relationships, physical presence, or accountability. This is the human moat.
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Visit establishments to evaluate needs or to promote product or service sales.20
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Stock or distribute resources, such as samples or promotional or educational materials.20
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Negotiate prices or terms of sales or service agreements.30
Task exposure values and classifications are published, versioned estimates audited against the anchored rubric. This page reads them from the data release rather than generating them at request time. Bars show exposure contribution relative to this role’s task mix.
What this means
A score of 50 puts Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products in the most-exposed quarter of analyzed occupations. In practice, exposure this high is about the mix: 2 of 20 analyzed tasks lean automatable, 12 augmentable, and 6 durable. The useful question isn’t “will AI take this job” — it’s which tasks go first, which get faster, and where to reposition time. That’s what the personalized report maps against your actual week.
Lower-exposure adjacent roles
No adjacent role in the current data release is at least 10 points lower with ≥50% skill overlap — we don’t label anything “safer” unless the data supports it.
Labor-market context
- $104,920median wage
- 284,800employed
- 27,200annual openings
- +1.9%projected growth
Context only — labor statistics are not inputs to the exposure score. See methodology.
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Adjacent by skills or family — no exposure claim implied.
How this score was calculated
The score is the plain average of the AI-exposure values of this role’s 20 analyzed tasks (equal task weights in this release — no hidden factors):
- Automatable 2 tasks, averaging 83/100 exposure
- Augmentable 12 tasks, averaging 54/100 exposure
- Durable 6 tasks, averaging 29/100 exposure
score = (2×83 + 12×54 + 6×29) ÷ 20 ≈ 50
Every task’s exposure value was scored against a published anchored rubric that scores tasks as actually performed — physical, in-person, and accountability requirements included (data release 2026.07.12-r2). The band (Very High) is a corpus quartile; the percentile is tie-aware across all 968 occupations.
FAQ — Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products
- Will AI replace Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products?
- This score cannot predict whether this occupation or any individual job will be replaced. It shows which tasks current and near-term AI can perform or accelerate, which tasks remain more durable, and where a worker can adapt. Employer decisions, demand, regulation, and how the role changes are outside the score.
- What does a score of 50 mean for a Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products?
- It means that, weighted across the 20 tasks we analyzed for this role, the task mix sits at 50 on a 0–100 exposure scale — in the most-exposed quarter of analyzed occupations. It measures task exposure to current and near-term AI capabilities, not the probability of losing a job.
- Which tasks in this role are most exposed to AI?
- The highest-exposure tasks are: Maintain customer records, using automated systems; Complete expense reports, sales reports, or other paperwork. Exposure comes from the published, rubric-scored data release rather than being generated when you open this page.
- Which parts of this job are most durable?
- The most durable responsibilities are: Visit establishments to evaluate needs or to promote product or service sales; Stock or distribute resources, such as samples or promotional or educational materials; Negotiate prices or terms of sales or service agreements. Durable tasks typically depend on judgment, relationships, physical presence, or accountability.
- Is this score personalized to me?
- No — this page shows the occupation-level baseline. Two people with the same title often do different work. The $9 personalized report recalculates the score from the tasks you actually do and builds a concrete 7/30/90-day plan around them.
Score version jr-v1 · data release 2026.07.12-r2 · updated 2026-07-13 · baseline mapping: 20 of 20 tasks carry source-level provenance · methodology