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Data Entry Clerk

A data entry clerk types and updates information into computer systems and spreadsheets, keeping records accurate and organised. It is steady, desk-based work that suits people who are careful, fast on a keyboard and happy with focused, detailed tasks.

Data Entry Clerk

65

Business and Management

AI IMPACT
AI CAN DO65%moving to95%
THE DOOR, NOWC
THE DOOR, 20 YRSE
STARTING PAYnot published
MOAT NOT YET CLASSIFIEDA real score, but the moat is not yet classified. No claim either way.
AI already does a lot of this work
AI can already do a large share of the day-to-day tasks in this job. We have not yet classified what, if anything, structurally protects it, so we make no claim either way about a moat. Learn the tools, and build the judgement that stays human.

Career progression path

Salary progression for this career has not been published yet.

There is more than one way in

You do not have to go the university route to get here. There is an apprenticeship route into this career. There is also a vocational route that skips a degree entirely. Some employers will take you on here with no formal qualifications at all, if you can show you can do the work.

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