Industry group, 4411
Automobile Dealers
1,290,550 people work in this industry in the US, at mean pay of $64,140 a year (BLS, May 2025). What follows is how much of their working time the best AI models could finish, when, and in which jobs and tasks. Estimates.
of the paid hours. Estimate.
a year: 595 million hours at what they cost. Not a forecast of savings.
- 30%
- 15%
- 55%
of the paid hours are within reach now in tasks people already bring to Claude. Another 18% is within reach in tasks not yet seen there.
Across the US: 22% within reach now and 37% by the end of 2028, on the long-run pace at four in five.
Share of the paid hours within reach, now to 2030
What each choice means: , , , , . Every pace starts from .
How far this has come
With GPT-4, measured in March 2023, 0% of this industry's paid hours were within reach at . With Claude 3.7 Sonnet, measured in February 2025, 3%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 21%. Today's estimate: 23%.
A backcast: today's task data with the best model METR had measured by each date. It shows how fast the models have moved, not what anyone forecast at the time.
Where the hours are
Jobs by hours within reach now. The 38 largest jobs hold 95% of the people.
| People | Pay here | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retail Salespersons | 225,610 | 19% | 91 million | $45K |
| Counter and Rental Clerks | 57,750 | 53% | 64 million | $49K |
| Customer Service Representatives | 39,000 | 64% | 52 million | $40K |
| Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks | 22,710 | 78% | 37 million | $46K |
| Office Clerks, General | 31,570 | 54% | 36 million | $40K |
| Receptionists and Information Clerks | 22,300 | 59% | 27 million | $36K |
| Parts Salespersons | 60,370 | 20% | 25 million | $46K |
| First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers | 39,100 | 28% | 23 million | $75K |
| Sales Managers | 38,800 | 28% | 23 million | $139K |
| First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers | 33,660 | 27% | 19 million | $84K |
| Loan Officers | 11,360 | 77% | 18 million | $106K |
| Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel | 19,580 | 43% | 18 million | $67K |
People: BLS counts for this industry, May 2025. Pay here: the median paid for the job in this industry, else its mean, else the national median. 127 smaller jobs (62,400 people) count in every total but are not listed. Task data covers 98% of the industry's people; the rest are in BLS "all other" groups with no task list, or in counts BLS does not publish.
The tasks with the most hours within reach by the end of 2028
Across the whole industry, on the chosen pace and reliability.
- Maintain knowledge of current sales and promotions, policies regarding payment and exchanges, and security practices.Retail Salespersons27 million hours50% of the task within reach
- Maintain records related to sales.Retail Salespersons15 million hours100% of the task within reach
- Inventory stock and requisition new stock.Retail Salespersons13 million hours20% of the task within reach
- Develop or implement electronic maintenance programs or computer information management systems.First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers11 million hours96% of the task within reach
- Prepare rental forms, obtaining customer signature and other information, such as required licenses.Counter and Rental Clerks9.5 million hours100% of the task within reach
- Monitor customer preferences to determine focus of sales efforts.Sales Managers9.2 million hours100% of the task within reach
- Obtain and examine all relevant information to assess validity of complaints and to determine possible causes, such as extreme weather conditions that could increase utility bills.Customer Service Representatives8.8 million hours100% of the task within reach
- Open and close cash registers, performing tasks such as counting money, separating charge slips, coupons, and vouchers, balancing cash drawers, and making deposits.Retail Salespersons8.7 million hours20% of the task within reach
- Prepare sales slips or sales contracts.Retail Salespersons8.6 million hours100% of the task within reach
- Develop sales presentations or proposals to explain service specifications.Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel8.4 million hours100% of the task within reach
Scan a typical company in this industry
The industry's largest jobs, in the proportions BLS counts across the whole industry, at the pay it pays, run through the company scan. A starting point before you have a roster, or a benchmark for the one you have.
Next to this industry
Within reach now and by the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
How it is built: BLS counts the people in each job in this industry; each job's tasks and their lengths give its share within reach at a date; the industry's share is those shares weighted by people. Value is pay times 1.43 for benefits and payroll costs. Seen in Claude use splits today's share by whether Anthropic saw people bring each task to Claude in 2025; other AI tools are not counted. How it works