Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products

Business & Financial Operations

United States · BLS Employment Projections 2025–35: this SOC code is not among the published items.

AI exposure

  • Data source: ILOPublished: 2025

    0.39

    0.09Range of values carried here0.70

    Group-level value

    Scale, basis and source

    Generative AI exposure index, 0–1 as published

    ISCO-08 unit group — every occupation sharing the code gets this value

    Computed by this site, not published by the ILO: of the 1,012 occupations this site links to the ILO dataset, 44% score at or above this value.

    Source dataset

  • Data source: OpenAIPublished: 2023

    0.368

    0.000Range of values carried here0.844
    Scale, basis and source

    Human-rater β, 0–1 as published

    Mapped onto O*NET tasks

    Source dataset

Task-level exposure

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Values in this tab are predicted labels, not observations. Eloundou et al. (2023) published two rating regimes — human raters and GPT-4 — and the β shown here is derived from the GPT-4 rater basis alone; the same task can take a different value under the other regime. The unit and the meaning differ from the observed shares (%) in the other tabs, so do not place them on the same axis.

TaskβE1 + 0.5 × E2
Write and review product specifications, maintaining a working technical knowledge of the goods or services to be purchased.

O*NET Task ID 1157

1.0
Purchase the highest quality merchandise at the lowest possible price and in correct amounts.

O*NET Task ID 1142

0.5
Prepare purchase orders, solicit bid proposals, and review requisitions for goods and services.

O*NET Task ID 1143

0.5
Research and evaluate suppliers, based on price, quality, selection, service, support, availability, reliability, production and distribution capabilities, and the supplier's reputation and history.

O*NET Task ID 1144

0.5
Analyze price proposals, financial reports, and other data and information to determine reasonable prices.

O*NET Task ID 1145

0.5
Monitor and follow applicable laws and regulations.

O*NET Task ID 1146

0.5
Negotiate, renegotiate, and administer contracts with suppliers, vendors, and other representatives.

O*NET Task ID 1147

0.5
Monitor shipments to ensure that goods come in on time, and resolve problems related to undelivered goods.

O*NET Task ID 1148

0.5
Confer with staff, users, and vendors to discuss defective or unacceptable goods or services and determine corrective action.

O*NET Task ID 1149

0.5
Evaluate and monitor contract performance to ensure compliance with contractual obligations and to determine need for changes.

O*NET Task ID 1150

0.5

β = E1 + 0.5 × E2 · E1 = tasks where direct LLM access alone cuts time by at least 50%, E2 = tasks where software built on top of an LLM cuts time by at least 50%. Values take only 0 / 0.5 / 1.0.

Data sources & licenses — O*NET®, Eloundou et al. (2023): see full notices on the Credits page

Occupation information