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Online Merchants vs Advertising Sales Agents

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

A factual, source-backed comparison of Online Merchants and Advertising Sales Agents 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.”

Online Merchants Advertising Sales Agents
Median pay · BLS OEWS
$81,270
$61,460
Employment · BLS OEWS
1,128,200
97,470
AI exposure (percentile) · task overlap, not automation
73rd pct
97th pct

At a glance

Dimension Online Merchants Advertising Sales Agents
Median pay $81,270 $61,460
Employment 1,128,200 97,470
Employment outlook (2024–34) · BLS projection About average (+3.0%) Declining (-6.4%)
Annual openings · BLS projection 108,200 9,300
Typical education · O*NET Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not. Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.
AI exposure · published exposure studies High · 73rd pct High · 97th pct
Global GenAI gradient · ILO ISCO-08 · via crosswalk 80th pct · 43% of tasks 82nd pct · 45% of tasks
Observed AI use · Anthropic Economic Index Automation-leaning (47.4%) Augmentation-leaning (57.6%)
Mostly remote-capable · Dingel–Neiman Yes No

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, Sales and Marketing, Customer and Personal Service, Written Comprehension, Reading Comprehension, Communications and Media, Administration and Management, Computers and Electronics, Active Listening, Speaking, Critical Thinking, Oral Expression, Written Expression, Problem Sensitivity, Writing, Persuasion, Service Orientation, Oral Comprehension, Deductive Reasoning, Near Vision, Speech Recognition, Speech Clarity, Administrative, Judgment and Decision Making, Inductive Reasoning, Mathematics, Monitoring, Social Perceptiveness, Negotiation, Information Ordering, Mathematics, Coordination, Complex Problem Solving, Fluency of Ideas, Category Flexibility, Active Learning.

Specific to Online Merchants

  • Economics and Accounting
  • Production and Processing
  • Mathematical Reasoning
  • Number Facility

Specific to Advertising Sales Agents

  • Originality
  • Systems Analysis
  • Time Management
  • Selective Attention
  • Flexibility of Closure

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 , Presentation software , Graphics or photo imaging software , Web page creation and editing software , Data base user interface and query software , Electronic mail software , Word processing software , Sales and marketing software .

Specific to Online Merchants

Specific to Advertising Sales Agents

Full profiles

This page is a summary. See the complete source-backed profile for Online Merchants or Advertising Sales Agents — 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. "Online Merchants vs Advertising Sales Agents." 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/online-merchants-vs-advertising-sales-agents

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Singulariki. (2026). Online Merchants vs Advertising Sales Agents. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/compare/online-merchants-vs-advertising-sales-agents

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