Parts Salespersons
Sell spare and replacement parts and equipment in repair shop or parts store.
270,070 people do this job in the US. $38,630 a year.
of the working time. Estimate.
- 20%
- 7%
- 74%
Measured, from Anthropic's usage data (2025). Counts help on part of a task.
On the chosen pace and reliability. Estimate.
Share of the working time within reach, now to 2030
What each choice means: , , , , . Every pace starts from .
At this date and pace, models finish tasks up to 4.4 h long four times in five.
How far this has come
With GPT-4, measured in March 2023, 0% of this job's working time was within reach at . With Claude 3.7 Sonnet, measured in February 2025, 7%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 20%. Today's estimate: 20%.
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.
The tasks
Sorted by . 19 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mark and store parts in stockrooms, according to prearranged systems.Done daily by most who do it. | 10% | 38 min13 min to 1.7 h | Stays with people | |
| Maintain and clean work and inventory areas.Done daily by most who do it. | 9% | 25 min8 min to 50 min | Stays with people | |
| Repair parts or equipment.Done more than weekly by most who do it. | 9% | 1.3 h17 min to 5 h | Stays with people | |
| Locate and label parts, and maintain inventory of stock.Done daily by most who do it. | 8% | 25 min8 min to 1.3 h | Stays with people | |
| Fill customer orders from stock, and place orders when requested items are out of stock.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 7% | 13 min4 min to 33 min | Stays with people | |
| Receive and fill telephone orders for parts.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 6% | 10 min4 min to 25 min | Stays with people | |
| Pick up and deliver parts.Done daily by most who do it. | 6% | 38 min17 min to 1.3 h | Stays with people | |
| Determine replacement parts required, according to inspections of old parts, customer requests, or customers' descriptions of malfunctions.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 6% | 13 min4 min to 33 min | Stays with people | |
| Demonstrate equipment to customers, and explain functioning of equipment.Done daily by most who do it. | 5% | 25 min8 min to 50 min | Stays with people | |
| Manage shipments by researching shipping methods or costs and tracking packages.Done daily by most who do it. | 4% | 21 min8 min to 38 min | 100%Half by now | |
| Assist customers, such as responding to customer complaints and updating them about back-ordered parts.Done daily by most who do it. | 4% | 13 min4 min to 25 min | 100%Half by now | |
| Read catalogs, microfiche viewers, or computer displays to determine replacement part stock numbers and prices.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 4% | 7 min3 min to 21 min | 100%Half by now |
Within reach, per task: the share of the task's time whose instances are short enough for a model to finish at the chosen date, pace and reliability. Half by: the date half of that time comes within reach.
Jobs that share skills with this one
From O*NET's related occupations. Within reach now and by the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
Where this job works
The industry groups that employ the most of it (BLS, May 2025).
Where the most of these jobs are
The metro areas with the most people in it (BLS, May 2025).