Jobs / Sales and marketing / 41-2022.00
Parts Salespersons
Sell spare and replacement parts and equipment in repair shop or parts store.
- US jobs
- 270,070
- Median wage
- $38,630 a year
- Job family
- Sales and marketing
Can agents do the work of parts salespersons?
We read the evidence at the level of the job family, Sales and marketing:
- Task levelPartialOne benchmark, from 2025. On Salesforce's CRMArena-Pro, which tests sales, service, and configure-price-quote requests inside a CRM, the best recorded agent succeeds on 58.3% of single-turn tasks and on fewer multi-turn tasks (Gemini 2.5 Pro, May 2025). No newer results are published.
- Project levelPartialOnly adjacent evidence. GDPval includes sales managers among its 44 occupations. OpenAI reports that GPT-5.5's deliverables won or tied against professionals' work in 84.9% of comparisons across all occupations. No benchmark in our collection tests running a campaign or a sales pipeline over weeks.
Benchmarks for the job family
These cover work in sales and marketing, not always this occupation's tasks.
- 1846 EloClaude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback) · 23 Sep 2026Unrated
Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- Receive payment or obtain credit authorization.
- Assist customers, such as responding to customer complaints and updating them about back-ordered parts.
- Fill customer orders from stock, and place orders when requested items are out of stock.
- Receive and fill telephone orders for parts.
- Locate and label parts, and maintain inventory of stock.
- Prepare sales slips or sales contracts.
- Read catalogs, microfiche viewers, or computer displays to determine replacement part stock numbers and prices.
- Determine replacement parts required, according to inspections of old parts, customer requests, or customers' descriptions of malfunctions.
- Examine returned parts for defects, and exchange defective parts or refund money.
- Manage shipments by researching shipping methods or costs and tracking packages.
- Mark and store parts in stockrooms, according to prearranged systems.
- Maintain and clean work and inventory areas.
Other job titles for this occupation (39)
Parts Advisor · Parts Consultant · Parts Counter Salesperson · Parts Counterman · Parts Counterperson · Parts Person · Parts Salesman · Parts Salesperson · Parts Specialist · Wholesale Parts Salesperson · Appliance Parts Counter Clerk · Automotive Parts Clerk (Auto Parts Clerk) · Automotive Parts Counter Associate (Auto Parts Counter Associate) · Automotive Parts Counter Person (Auto Parts Counter Person) · Automotive Parts Counterperson (Auto Parts Counterperson) · Automotive Parts Handler (Auto Parts Handler) · Automotive Parts Salesperson (Auto Parts Salesperson) · Automotive Parts Specialist (Auto Parts Specialist) · Commercial Parts Professional · Electronic Parts Salesperson · Merchandising Assistant · Parts Associate · Parts Back Counter Man · Parts Clerk · Parts Coordinator · Parts Counter Associate · Parts Counter Clerk · Parts Counter Person · Parts Counter Representative (Parts Counter Rep) · Parts Professional · Parts Puller · Parts Representative (Parts Rep) · Parts Runner · Parts Sales Representative (Parts Sales Rep) · Parts Technician (Parts Tech) · Retail Parts Professional · Sales Assistant (Sales Assist) · Sales Specialist · Salesperson