First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers

SOC Code: 41-1011

First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workerss provide customer service by greeting and assisting customers and responding to customer inquiries and complaints. This career typically requires moderate-term on-the-job training (months to 1 year). With an AI-proof score of 84.0/100, this role has high resilience to automation. Key skills include Monitoring, Speaking, Critical Thinking.

AI-Proof Score: 84.0 — Very High
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Median Salary

$47,320

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Job Growth

-5.0%

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Training Time

Moderate-term on-the-job training (months to 1 year)

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Job Zone

Zone 2 / 5

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Training Cost

~$5,000

Key Skills

  • •Monitoring
  • •Speaking
  • •Critical Thinking
  • •Reading Comprehension
  • •Active Listening
  • •Service Orientation
  • •Social Perceptiveness
  • •Time Management

Common Tasks

  • ✓Provide customer service by greeting and assisting customers and responding to customer inquiries and complaints.
  • ✓Direct and supervise employees engaged in sales, inventory-taking, reconciling cash receipts, or in performing services for customers.
  • ✓Examine merchandise to ensure that it is correctly priced and displayed and that it functions as advertised.
  • ✓Monitor sales activities to ensure that customers receive satisfactory service and quality goods.
  • ✓Instruct staff on how to handle difficult and complicated sales.

Why AI-Proof?

  • ✅Requires hands-on physical presence and dexterity
  • ✅Demands human empathy, judgment, and trust
  • ✅Operates in unpredictable, variable environments
  • ✅Social and regulatory barriers to full automation