Storekeeper
AI Exposure Rank
23/100
Range 10–30/100 across source-weight sensitivity checks
Storekeeper has an AI Exposure Rank of 23/100, meaning its work is more exposed to current AI capabilities than approximately 23% of Singapore occupations. The evidence currently points to limited direct change; this is a relative rank, not a probability of job loss.
Clerical Support Workers·SGD 2,500/mo (2,000–3,080)·~2.0K workers in SG·Updated 2026-07-17
Relative AI exposure, not a prediction of job loss. Hiring, wages and role design depend on many forces this rank does not forecast.
How This Rank Is Built
The source percentiles are combined using the displayed reliability weights, then ranked against all 562 Singapore occupations. This is not a percentage of tasks and not a job-loss probability.
Likely job pathway
Limited direct change
Current demand context
Weak current demand
Pathway and demand are reported beside the exposure rank. Current demand does not change the rank.
The evidence behind this occupation's AI exposure, with human-work and demand context shown separately. Score stability: watch. How this works
Tasks AI can handle
With 27% AI task overlap (based on Felten AIOE, Anthropic Economic Index, and ILO occupational exposure), the Storekeeper tasks most exposed include: data entry, invoice processing, appointment scheduling, document filing, and standard correspondence drafting.
What AI can't do here
At 18% human bottleneck protection, the tasks that remain hardest to automate for Storekeeper include: exception handling for non-standard requests, institutional knowledge of internal processes, coordinating across departments, and managing sensitive information.
Main insulation channels: Accountability for others + Non-routine work — the work-context dimensions behind this occupation's human bottleneck.
Skills to focus on
Sources: Felten AIOE (2021), Anthropic Economic Index (2026), ILO GenAI (2025), Pizzinelli et al. bottleneck model. Full methodology.
From exposure to employment
What could change the employment outcome?
AI capability is only the starting point. Adoption, task design, human oversight, demand, mobility and evidence quality determine how exposure may resolve in practice.
Workplace adoption
Leading sectors represented
Some listed industries have MOM sector adoption evidence; observed-sector average 65.8%.
Task structure
Task evidence limited
Task-weighted shadow evidence is not active for this occupation yet.
Human advantage
Coordination and judgment still matter
At 18% human bottleneck protection, the tasks that remain hardest to automate for Storekeeper include: exception handling for non-standard requests, institutional knowledge of internal processes, coordinating across departments, and managing sensitive information.
Hiring and demand
3.2% vacancy rate · 2026 Q1
Clerical, sales and service vacancies recovered slightly from Q4 but remained well below a year earlier. Hiring turnover slowed, retrenchment incidence stayed low, and six-month re-entry improved. In 2025, this broad occupation group had 1.9% time-related underemployment and 12.1% non-permanent employment. Across the published male and female series, CPI-adjusted median income changed +0.1% to +3.9% from 2018 to 2023.
Career transitions
Stock records clerk
moderate modeled transition; outcomes still depend on skills, wages and openings.
Evidence strength
medium confidence
3 exposure sources · sensitivity 10–30/100 across source-weight sensitivity checks.
These lenses are reported separately and do not alter AI Exposure Rank. Labour-market figures describe a broad official occupation cluster, not this SSOC occupation alone.
Singapore Now
Current labour market conditions and how they affect this role.
Cooling, but not collapsing. Vacancies and re-entry are softer, yet retrenchment remains low and hiring still exceeds resignations.
Vacancy
3.2%
↓ 20.0% YoY
Hiring
2.1%
vs 1.4% resign
Retrenchment
0.7
per 1,000 · low
Re-entry
68%
find work in 12mo· -10.5pp
Clerical, Sales & Service Workers · 2026 Q1
Top Industries
Industry vacancy overlays use the latest published detailed cross-tab, which can lag the main labour monitor.
What You Can Do
Storekeeper has some offset potential, but it depends on transition pathways holding up in practice and on workers clearing the main switching frictions.
Published transition support
Related roles you could transition to
Similarity-basedCompare within Clerical Support Workers
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More exposed than approximately 22% of occupations · V8 AI Exposure Rank· GCE O-Level / Secondary
Raw scores
AIOE -0.746 · θ 0.632 · C-AIOE -0.637
Stability
watch · Optimistic 14% · Pessimistic 23%
Score range (best/worst case)
Exposure sensitivity 14–39% · Rank sensitivity 10–30/100 across source-weight sensitivity checks
Scoring basis
V8 AI Exposure Rank. A relative Singapore occupation index. It ranks AI task exposure; it is not a probability of job loss or a percentage of tasks.
Wage range (SGD/mo)
25th 2,000 · Median 2,500 · 75th 3,080
Evidence & sources
Data matching
direct · SSOC 43212
Real-world AI usage: +0% vs estimated
Data quality
medium evidence · 3 exposure sources · direct mapping
Task-weighted shadow evidence is not active for this occupation yet.
AI overlap by data source
Weights: aioe 31% · anthropic 34% · ilo 35%
Conflicting data signals
Tools & offset factors
What helps
- Nearby moves and published transition support look reasonably strong.
What could slow it down
- Current demand support is thin, so offsets may take longer to show up.
Worker profile & local context
- Vacancy rate is 3.2% and rose by 0.1 points from last quarter.
- Hiring read: recruitment is running above resignation (2.1% vs 1.4%).
- Retrenchment was low at 0.7 per 1,000 employees.
- 68% of retrenched workers re-entered employment within 12 months.
- Employer pressure is moderate, based on 3 captured Singapore-relevant company signals through 2025-06-18.
Worker profile
Gender mix
37% male / 63% femalePublished Singapore worker composition for the detailed occupation family 43 Numerical & Material-Recording Clerks.
Employment structure
Employee-heavy99% employees, 1% employers or self-employed workers.
Work arrangement
Mostly full-time13% part-time and 87% full-time in 2025.
Age profile
Older-skewing16% aged 15 to 29, 35% aged 30 to 49, and 49% aged 50 or older.
Qualification mix
Mixed qualificationsSecondary 29%; Diploma / professional qualification 28%.
Gross wage by sex
Female median 9% lowerPublished June 2024 gross wage medians: male $2,561, female $2,327.
Where this work is concentrated
Top planning areas
Jurong West, Tampines, Woodlands22% of workers in this occupation group live in these three planning areas.
Residential concentration
Moderately clustered35% live across the top five planning areas in the 2020 Census.
Commute pattern
Longer commutesEstimated average commute 39.7 minutes. 38% take 46 minutes or more.
Role profile
How this role's work breaks down across key dimensions. This is a general profile, not an individual measurement.
General role profile on a 0–100 scale. These are modelling inputs, not measurements of an individual job or worker.
How this changes by career stage
Career stage can change the task mix and human context. These directional profiles are illustrative, not occupation-level forecasts of hiring or displacement.
Frequently asked questions
Will AI replace Storekeeper?
Storekeeper has an AI Exposure Rank of 23/100, meaning its work is more exposed to current AI capabilities than approximately 23% of Singapore occupations. The evidence currently points to limited direct change; this is a relative rank, not a probability of job loss. AI Exposure Rank: 23/100 (Low). Median wage: SGD 2,500/month.
What is the AI exposure rank for Storekeeper?
Storekeeper has an AI Exposure Rank of 23/100, rated Low. It ranks higher than approximately 23% of Singapore occupations for exposure to current AI capabilities; it is not a job-loss probability.
What career transitions are available for Storekeeper?
Storekeeper has modeled transition pathways to related occupations. The strongest adjacent pathway is Stock records clerk, based on skill and wage similarity (model-estimated). Transition scoring accounts for wage preservation, training ease, and destination quality.
How does Storekeeper salary compare in the live market?
Storekeeper earns a median gross wage of SGD 2,500/month in the live market (25th-75th percentile: SGD 2,000-3,080). This is 44% below median across all 562 scored occupations, and 22% below group median within Clerical Support Workers occupations.