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Customs Brokers vs Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products

Side-by-side · O*NET · BLS · AI-exposure research · Anthropic Economic Index

A factual, source-backed comparison of Customs Brokers and Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products on the dimensions both occupations carry. Every figure is a position within an independent published dataset — not a verdict on which job is better, safer, or more “future-proof.”

Customs Brokers Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products
Median pay · BLS OEWS
$78,420
—
Employment · BLS OEWS
397,770
—
AI exposure (percentile) · task overlap, not automation
67th pct
100th pct

At a glance

Dimension Customs Brokers Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products
Median pay $78,420 —
Employment 397,770 —
Employment outlook (2024–34) · BLS projection About average (+3.0%) —
Annual openings · BLS projection 33,300 —
Typical education · O*NET Most occupations in this zone require training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree. Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.
AI exposure · published exposure studies High · 67th pct High · 100th pct
Global GenAI gradient · ILO ISCO-08 · via crosswalk 74th pct · 38% of tasks 76th pct · 39% of tasks
Observed AI use · Anthropic Economic Index — Automation-leaning (50.2%)
Mostly remote-capable · Dingel–Neiman Yes Yes

Pay and employment are BLS OEWS estimates; outlook and openings are BLS 2024–2034 projections; AI exposure and observed-use figures come from separate research and reflect exposure and usage, not predictions that either job will disappear. Compare like with like.

Skills

Shared: English Language, Administrative, Active Listening, Law and Government, Customer and Personal Service, Reading Comprehension, Written Comprehension, Deductive Reasoning, Writing, Speaking, Critical Thinking, Complex Problem Solving, Oral Comprehension, Oral Expression, Written Expression, Near Vision, Speech Clarity, Information Ordering, Computers and Electronics, Administration and Management, Category Flexibility, Speech Recognition, Mathematics, Active Learning, Monitoring, Service Orientation, Judgment and Decision Making, Time Management, Problem Sensitivity, Inductive Reasoning, Economics and Accounting, Mathematics, Social Perceptiveness, Negotiation, Instructing.

Specific to Customs Brokers

  • Transportation
  • Geography
  • Learning Strategies
  • Selective Attention
  • Coordination

Specific to Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products

  • Persuasion
  • Management of Financial Resources
  • Management of Material Resources
  • Number Facility
  • Management of Personnel Resources
  • Fluency of Ideas

Knowledge, skills & abilities O*NET rates as important for each occupation. “Shared” are common to both; the columns list what is distinctive to each (top by the order O*NET surfaces).

Tools & technology

Shared: Spreadsheet software , Office suite software , Electronic mail software , Presentation software , Word processing software , Data base user interface and query software , Enterprise resource planning ERP software , Project management software .

Specific to Customs Brokers

Specific to Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products

Full profiles

This page is a summary. See the complete source-backed profile for Customs Brokers or Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products — tasks, the full skill graph, tools, work context, preparation, wages by percentile, industries, AI exposure and the AI work map.

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Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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Singulariki. "Customs Brokers vs Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; BLS Employment Projections 2024–2034; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); Microsoft “Working with AI” working-with-ai; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans; ILO / Gmyrek et al. GenAI exposure gradient 2025; IBS O*NET-SOC ↔ ISCO-08 occupation crosswalk 2022; Frey & Osborne (2013) frey-osborne-automation; Dingel & Neiman (2020) dingel-neiman-workathome. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/compare/customs-brokers-vs-purchasing-agents-except-wholesale-retail-and-farm-products

APA

Singulariki. (2026). Customs Brokers vs Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/compare/customs-brokers-vs-purchasing-agents-except-wholesale-retail-and-farm-products

BibTeX 
@misc{singulariki-customs-brokers-vs-purchasing-agents-except-wholesale-retail-and-farm-products,
  title  = {Customs Brokers vs Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
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  url    = {https://singulariki.com/compare/customs-brokers-vs-purchasing-agents-except-wholesale-retail-and-farm-products}
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