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Procurement Clerks 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 Procurement Clerks 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.”

Procurement Clerks Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products
Median pay · BLS OEWS
$48,510
—
Employment · BLS OEWS
59,900
—
AI exposure (percentile) · task overlap, not automation
82nd pct
100th pct

At a glance

Dimension Procurement Clerks Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products
Median pay $48,510 —
Employment 59,900 —
Employment outlook (2024–34) · BLS projection Declining (-8.7%) —
Annual openings · BLS projection 4,600 —
Typical education · O*NET Usually requires a high school diploma or GED, though some occupations may not. Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.
AI exposure · published exposure studies High · 82nd pct High · 100th pct
Global GenAI gradient · ILO ISCO-08 · via crosswalk 97th pct · 60% of tasks 76th pct · 39% of tasks
Observed AI use · Anthropic Economic Index Automation-leaning (48.5%) 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: Reading Comprehension, Speaking, Oral Comprehension, Oral Expression, English Language, Active Listening, Written Comprehension, Near Vision, Administrative, Customer and Personal Service, Critical Thinking, Written Expression, Information Ordering, Writing, Monitoring, Social Perceptiveness, Speech Clarity, Complex Problem Solving, Judgment and Decision Making, Problem Sensitivity, Deductive Reasoning, Inductive Reasoning, Economics and Accounting, Administration and Management, Mathematics, Speech Recognition, Active Learning, Computers and Electronics, Service Orientation, Mathematics, Time Management, Category Flexibility, Persuasion, Negotiation, Fluency of Ideas.

Specific to Procurement Clerks

  • Transportation
  • Coordination
  • Mathematical Reasoning
  • Public Safety and Security
  • Selective Attention

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

  • Law and Government
  • Management of Financial Resources
  • Instructing
  • Management of Material Resources
  • Number Facility
  • Management of Personnel Resources

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 , Enterprise resource planning ERP software , Accounting software , Data base user interface and query software , Document management software , Inventory management software .

Specific to Procurement Clerks

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

Full profiles

This page is a summary. See the complete source-backed profile for Procurement Clerks 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. "Procurement Clerks 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/procurement-clerks-vs-purchasing-agents-except-wholesale-retail-and-farm-products

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Singulariki. (2026). Procurement Clerks 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/procurement-clerks-vs-purchasing-agents-except-wholesale-retail-and-farm-products

BibTeX 
@misc{singulariki-procurement-clerks-vs-purchasing-agents-except-wholesale-retail-and-farm-products,
  title  = {Procurement Clerks vs Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products},
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  year   = {2026},
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  url    = {https://singulariki.com/compare/procurement-clerks-vs-purchasing-agents-except-wholesale-retail-and-farm-products}
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