# Agents and Business Managers of Artists, Performers, and Athletes

> Represent and promote artists, performers, and athletes in dealings with current or prospective employers. May handle contract negotiation and other business matters for clients.

- **SOC code:** 13-1011.00
- **Canonical URL:** https://singulariki.com/roles/role-13-1011-00
- **Also known as:** Agent, Booking Agent, Talent Agent, Theatrical Agent, Athlete Marketing Agent, Booker, Entertainment Specialist, Literary Agent
- **Frame:** "AI exposure" means task overlap (how codifiable the work is), not jobs lost or a forecast. Every figure below is traced to a named public dataset.

## What this work is

**Core tasks** (O*NET):
- Collect fees, commissions, or other payments, according to contract terms.
- Send samples of clients' work and other promotional material to potential employers to obtain auditions, sponsorships, or endorsement deals.
- Keep informed of industry trends and deals.
- Negotiate with managers, promoters, union officials, and other persons regarding clients' contractual rights and obligations.
- Conduct auditions or interviews to evaluate potential clients.
- Confer with clients to develop strategies for their careers, and to explain actions taken on their behalf.
- Develop contacts with individuals and organizations, and apply effective strategies and techniques to ensure their clients' success.
- Schedule promotional or performance engagements for clients.
- Arrange meetings concerning issues involving their clients.
- Manage business and financial affairs for clients, such as arranging travel and lodging, selling tickets, and directing marketing and advertising activities.
- Hire trainers or coaches to advise clients on performance matters, such as training techniques or performance presentations.
- Prepare periodic accounting statements for clients.

## Skills, tools, capabilities

**Knowledge, skills & abilities** (O*NET, highest importance first):
- Customer and Personal Service _(knowledge)_
- Oral Expression _(ability)_
- Sales and Marketing _(knowledge)_
- Reading Comprehension _(essential_skill)_
- Active Listening _(essential_skill)_
- Speaking _(essential_skill)_
- Persuasion _(transferable_skill)_
- Negotiation _(transferable_skill)_
- Oral Comprehension _(ability)_
- Written Comprehension _(ability)_
- English Language _(knowledge)_
- Social Perceptiveness _(transferable_skill)_

**Skills in demand:**
- Reading Comprehension _(Common Skill)_
- Negotiation _(Common Skill)_
- Active Listening _(Common Skill)_
- English Language _(Common Skill)_
- Speech Recognition _(Specialized Skill)_
- Social Perceptiveness _(Common Skill)_
- Time Management _(Common Skill)_
- Deductive Reasoning _(Common Skill)_
- Critical Thinking _(Common Skill)_
- Writing _(Common Skill)_
- Inductive Reasoning _(Common Skill)_
- Active Learning _(Common Skill)_

**Tools & technology:**
- Adobe Photoshop _(hot technology)_
- Apple macOS _(hot technology)_
- Facebook _(hot technology)_
- Microsoft Excel _(hot technology)_
- Microsoft Office software _(hot technology)_
- Microsoft Outlook _(hot technology)_
- Microsoft PowerPoint _(hot technology)_
- Microsoft Word _(hot technology)_
- Salesforce software _(hot technology)_
- Zoom _(hot technology)_
- Avid Technology iNEWS
- Database software

## AI exposure & outlook

- **AI task-overlap index:** 85th percentile (High) across all occupations — composite of current-era exposure studies (ai-exposure-index-v1).
- **Overall AI exposure (Felten et al.):** 78th percentile (High) — source: felten_aioe.
- **LLM task exposure, γ (OpenAI / Eloundou):** 80th percentile (High) — source: eloundou_gamma.
- **AI assistant applicability (Microsoft):** 84th percentile (High) — source: microsoft_applicability.
- **Frey–Osborne (2013, historical computerization estimate):** 36th percentile — kept separate from current-era studies.
- **Remote-capable (Dingel–Neiman):** yes — task structure, not who actually works remote.
- **Projected employment (BLS 2024–34):** 8.7% growth (Growing fast); 2.2k annual openings; 21.4k → 23.2k jobs.
- **Pay & employment (BLS OEWS, May 2024):** median $96,310; 14,220 employed.

## How people actually use AI here

Anthropic Economic Index — measured AI conversations mapped to this occupation's tasks:

- **Automation vs augmentation:** 23% automation, 74% augmentation (usage-weighted).
- **Autonomy median:** 4.0 (higher = AI acts more independently).
- **Dominant collaboration mode:** learning.

**Tasks most handed to AI here:**
- Advise clients on financial and legal matters such as investments and taxes. _(9.2% of measured AI use; learning)_
- Confer with clients to develop strategies for their careers, and to explain actions taken on their behalf. _(8.5% of measured AI use; task iteration)_
- Keep informed of industry trends and deals. _(2.1% of measured AI use; directive)_

**Example prompts (honest phrasings of the tasks above — starting points, not endorsed instructions):**
- Help me advise clients on financial and legal matters such as investments and taxes.
- Help me confer with clients to develop strategies for their careers, and to explain actions taken on their behalf.
- Help me keep informed of industry trends and deals.

## Sources

- **O*NET** (30.3) — U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development. https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html
- **BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS)** (May 2024) — U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. https://www.bls.gov/oes/
- **BLS Employment Projections** (2024–2034) — U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. https://www.bls.gov/emp/
- **Anthropic Economic Index** (v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27)) — Anthropic. https://www.anthropic.com/economic-index
- **Microsoft “Working with AI”** (working-with-ai) — Microsoft Research. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/
- **“GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.)** (arXiv 2303.10130) — OpenAI / academic. https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.10130
- **AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE)** (Felten, Raj & Seamans) — academic. https://github.com/AIOE-Data/AIOE
- **Frey & Osborne (2013)** (frey-osborne-automation) — academic. https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/publications/the-future-of-employment/
- **Dingel & Neiman (2020)** (dingel-neiman-workathome) — academic. https://github.com/jdingel/DingelNeiman-workathome

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_Generated from Singulariki's joined dataset; data snapshot 2026-06-02T21:00:32.945303+00:00. https://singulariki.com/roles/role-13-1011-00_