Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents vs Cashiers
Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents carries the higher exposed share at 52.7% against 50.0%, a gap of 2.6 points. The difference is driven by capability: a current system can simply produce more of the first job's work product than the second's. Release v2026.Q3.
| Occupation | Exposed | Assisted | Untouched | Capability | Friction | Median pay | Rank | Band |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents | 52.7% | 27.7% | 19.7% | 0.80 | 0.36 | $78,660 | 89 | exposed |
| Cashiers | 50.0% | 21.0% | 29.0% | 0.71 | 0.33 | $32,880 | 109 | exposed |
What stands in the way, in each
Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents: the dominant friction is that it runs on knowledge of the organisation that a model cannot hold. Capability sits at 0.80 of 1 and friction at 0.36 of 1.
Cashiers: the dominant friction is that it runs on knowledge of the organisation that a model cannot hold. Capability sits at 0.71 of 1 and friction at 0.33 of 1.
Capability asks whether a generally available system can produce the work product at all. Friction asks what stops it finishing the job: physical work, being present, being accountable, unseen context, or the cost of checking the output. The rubric is here.
Read each in full
Exposure is not displacement. A higher score does not rank two jobs by how safe they are, and nothing here models adoption, employment or pay.