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Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents vs Wholesale and Retail Buyers, Except Farm Products

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A factual, source-backed comparison of Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents and Wholesale and Retail Buyers, Except 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.”

Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents Wholesale and Retail Buyers, Except Farm Products
Median pay · BLS OEWS
$78,140
—
Employment · BLS OEWS
472,300
—
AI exposure (percentile) · task overlap, not automation
76th pct
68th pct

At a glance

Dimension Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents Wholesale and Retail Buyers, Except Farm Products
Median pay $78,140 —
Employment 472,300 —
Employment outlook (2024–34) · BLS projection About average (+3.3%) —
Annual openings · BLS projection 38,100 —
Typical education · O*NET Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not. Most occupations in this zone require training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree.
AI exposure · published exposure studies High · 76th pct High · 68th pct
Global GenAI gradient · ILO ISCO-08 · via crosswalk 91st pct · 53% of tasks 76th pct · 39% of tasks
Observed AI use · Anthropic Economic Index — —
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: Customer and Personal Service, Oral Comprehension, Economics and Accounting, Oral Expression, English Language, Active Listening, Critical Thinking, Deductive Reasoning, Mathematics, Sales and Marketing, Monitoring, Judgment and Decision Making, Written Comprehension, Speech Clarity, Reading Comprehension, Speaking, Active Learning, Persuasion, Computers and Electronics, Written Expression, Problem Sensitivity, Speech Recognition, Administration and Management, Writing, Social Perceptiveness, Complex Problem Solving, Inductive Reasoning, Information Ordering, Near Vision, Service Orientation, Category Flexibility, Mathematical Reasoning, Mathematics, Systems Evaluation, Time Management, Management of Financial Resources, Number Facility.

Specific to Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents

  • Systems Analysis
  • Fluency of Ideas
  • Law and Government

Specific to Wholesale and Retail Buyers, Except Farm Products

  • Negotiation
  • Coordination
  • Instructing

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 , Operating system software , Data base user interface and query software , Electronic mail software , Presentation software , Document management software , Development environment software , Word processing software , Enterprise resource planning ERP software , Customer relationship management CRM software , Accounting software .

Specific to Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents

Specific to Wholesale and Retail Buyers, Except Farm Products

Full profiles

This page is a summary. See the complete source-backed profile for Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents or Wholesale and Retail Buyers, Except 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. "Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents vs Wholesale and Retail Buyers, Except 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/securities-commodities-and-financial-services-sales-agents-vs-wholesale-and-retail-buyers-except-farm-products

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Singulariki. (2026). Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents vs Wholesale and Retail Buyers, Except Farm Products. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/compare/securities-commodities-and-financial-services-sales-agents-vs-wholesale-and-retail-buyers-except-farm-products

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