Jobs / Sales and marketing / 41-9012.00
Models
Model garments or other apparel and accessories for prospective buyers at fashion shows, private showings, or retail establishments. May pose for photos to be used in magazines or advertisements. May pose as subject for paintings, sculptures, and other types of artistic expression.
- US jobs
- 3,780
- Median wage
- $48,470 a year
- Job family
- Sales and marketing
Can agents do the work of models?
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.
- Pose for artists and photographers.
- Record rates of pay and durations of jobs on vouchers.
- Gather information from agents concerning the pay, dates, times, provisions, and lengths of jobs.
- Report job completions to agencies and obtain information about future appointments.
- Assemble and maintain portfolios, print composite cards, and travel to go-sees to obtain jobs.
- Pose as directed, or strike suitable interpretive poses for promoting and selling merchandise or fashions during appearances, filming, or photo sessions.
- Follow strict routines of diet, sleep, and exercise to maintain appearance.
- Apply makeup to face and style hair to enhance appearance, considering such factors as color, camera techniques, and facial features.
- Work closely with photographers, fashion coordinators, directors, producers, stylists, make-up artists, other models, and clients to produce the desired looks, and to finish photo shoots on schedule.
- Dress in sample or completed garments, and select accessories.
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