Customer relations
Debt collector
Key facts
This job is declining in the United States. AI exposure: moderate according to the ILO, very high according to the BLS. Employment change in the United States by 2035: −10.5% (BLS). Future-proof jobs use similar skills: see "What next?".
The job
Debt-collectors and related workers (ISCO 4214). Debt collectors and related workers collect payments on overdue accounts and bad cheques and collect charity payments.
Page built from official classifications (ILO, ESCO); figures cover all the jobs grouped here.
23 job titles linked to this page
Titles from the European ESCO classification. They are also used for search.
- assistant debt collector
- bill and account collector
- bill and account recovery agent
- bill collector
- claims clerk
- collection agent
- collections associate
- collector of insurance payments
- credit control agent
- debt collection agent
- debt collection officer
- debt collection operative
- debt collector
- debt recovery agent
- field debt collector
- insurance claims and policy processing clerk
- insurance claims clerk
- insurance collector
- insurance collectors
- payment collector
- revenue agent
- senior debt collector
- third-party collector
What next?
Future-proof jobs that draw on skills close to this one. They are leads to explore, not an assessment of your profile.
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Indicative matches: at launch they will come from the skills listed in official occupational directories.
Gauges
No US indicator measures hiring difficulty job by job: this gauge stays empty. How countries are compared
Sources
- AI exposure categories and employment projections, 2025-2035 (XLSX file)Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States · August 2026 · official statistics
- Generative AI and Jobs: a refined global index of occupational exposureInternational Labour Organization and NASK · May 2025 · large survey
- ESCO, European classification of skills, competences, qualifications and occupations (job titles and O*NET crosswalk)European Commission · version 1.2 · official statistics
- Jobs in 2030: projections by occupational family (summary table)Dares and France Stratégie · March 2022 · official statistics
- EURES report on labour shortages and surpluses 2025, annexEuropean Labour Authority · June 2026 · official statistics
Checked on 27 October 2026.