Senior government officials
AI can help with a few sub-tasks (emails, paperwork), but the core of the job doesn't change.
Exposure is not job loss: it shows how much of the work generative AI could do today. Whether that turns into transformation, productivity gains or cuts depends on employers, regulation — and on you.
0 = today’s generative AI cannot perform any of the job’s tasks, 100 = it could do all of them fully. The pale band is the spread across tasks.
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Task by task
The ILO scored every task of the occupation separately, as the average of two AI models (GPT-4o and Gemini). The pale band is the range between the two models' scores, the dot the ILO's final score (for a few tasks expert review placed it outside the band).
- Recommending, reviewing, evaluating and approving documents, briefs and reports submitted by middle managers and senior staff members54
- Advising on the preparation of government budgets, laws and regulations, including amendments44
- Ensuring appropriate systems and procedures are developed and implemented to provide budgetary control39
- Making presentations to legislative and other government committees regarding policies programmes or budgets38
- Overseeing the interpretation and implementation of government policies and legislation by government departments and agencies.36
- Establishing objectives for government departments or agencies in accordance with government legislation and policy36
- Formulating or approving and evaluating programmes and procedures for the implementation of government policies in conjunction or consultation with government36
- Advising national, state, regional or local governments and legislators on policy matters35
- Coordinating activities with other senior government managers and officials24
How much does it affect you?
Every job is different: mark which of these tasks you do and how much, and we'll compute your own, time-weighted score.
For each task: I don't do it · sometimes · most of my job.
- Recommending, reviewing, evaluating and approving documents, briefs and reports submitted by middle managers and senior staff members(54)
- Advising on the preparation of government budgets, laws and regulations, including amendments(44)
- Ensuring appropriate systems and procedures are developed and implemented to provide budgetary control(39)
- Making presentations to legislative and other government committees regarding policies programmes or budgets(38)
- Overseeing the interpretation and implementation of government policies and legislation by government departments and agencies.(36)
- Establishing objectives for government departments or agencies in accordance with government legislation and policy(36)
- Formulating or approving and evaluating programmes and procedures for the implementation of government policies in conjunction or consultation with government(36)
- Advising national, state, regional or local governments and legislators on policy matters(35)
- Coordinating activities with other senior government managers and officials(24)
You are exactly at the occupation average. (The occupation's score: 38.)
About 11% of your working time goes to highly exposed tasks (score ≥ 50).
- • Recommending, reviewing, evaluating and approving documents, briefs and reports submitted by middle managers and senior staff members
- • Advising on the preparation of government budgets, laws and regulations, including amendments
- • Coordinating activities with other senior government managers and officials
- • Advising national, state, regional or local governments and legislators on policy matters
An estimate from the ILO task scores. Everything is computed in your browser — nothing is sent or stored.
How many people work in this occupational group?
Share of the Chief executives, senior officials and legislators group in total employment, by country (Eurostat, ISCO 2-digit — 4-digit breakdowns are not public by country).
Table view
| Country | Chief executives, senior officials and legislators |
|---|---|
| Iceland | 5.1% · 12 thousand · 2025 |
| Latvia | 4.1% · 37 thousand · 2025 |
| Lithuania | 3.0% · 44 thousand · 2025 |
| Malta | 2.5% · 8 thousand · 2025 |
| Switzerland | 2.5% · 119 thousand · 2025 |
| Germany | 1.4% · 590 thousand · 2025 |
| Poland | 1.3% · 230 thousand · 2025 |
| Norway | 1.2% · 35 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovakia | 1.1% · 28 thousand · 2025 |
| Austria | 0.9% · 41 thousand · 2025 |
| Czechia | 0.8% · 44 thousand · 2025 |
| Belgium | 0.8% · 42 thousand · 2025 |
| Netherlands | 0.8% · 78 thousand · 2025 |
| Romania | 0.8% · 60 thousand · 2025 |
| France | 0.8% · 220 thousand · 2025 |
| Bulgaria | 0.7% · 20 thousand · 2025 |
| United Kingdom | 0.7% · 223 thousand · 2025 |
| Portugal | 0.6% · 33 thousand · 2025 |
| Denmark | 0.5% · 15 thousand · 2025 |
| Cyprus | 0.5% · 2 thousand · 2025 |
| Italy | 0.4% · 107 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovenia | 0.4% · 4 thousand · 2025 |
| Finland | 0.3% · 9 thousand · 2025 |
| Croatia | 0.3% · 6 thousand · 2025 |
| Ireland | 0.3% · 9 thousand · 2025 |
| Spain | 0.3% · 58 thousand · 2025 |
| Sweden | 0.3% · 14 thousand · 2025 |
| Greece | 0.2% · 10 thousand · 2025 |
| Hungary | 0.2% · 9 thousand · 2025 |
What do they earn?
Mean gross monthly earnings in the major occupational group (Managers). Eurostat's earnings survey only publishes pay by occupation at 1 digit, so this is the job's broader group. Enterprises with 10+ employees, 2022.
By country, at purchasing power parity (PPS/month), so countries with different price levels can be compared.
- Switzerland8,354
- Italy7,983
- Luxembourg7,683
- Belgium7,390
- Germany7,172
- Denmark6,654
- Austria6,190
- Ireland6,181
- Finland6,101
- Cyprus5,842
- Norway5,718
- Iceland5,653
- Netherlands5,508
- EU275,374
- France5,226
- Sweden4,960
- Slovenia4,808
- Spain4,699
- Czechia4,257
- Portugal4,203
- Greece4,190
- Malta4,128
- Poland4,112
- Romania4,078
- Lithuania4,031
- Hungary3,641
- Bulgaria3,559
- Croatia3,524
- Slovakia3,418
- Estonia3,290
- Latvia3,288
Source: Eurostat Structure of Earnings Survey (earn_ses22_21), every four years. The United Kingdom is not covered by the survey.
Outlook to 2035
Employment in the Chief executives, senior officials and legislators group according to Cedefop's 2026 forecast.
thousand · Cedefop Skills Forecast 2026 · 2026–2035: projection
Replacement demand is the jobs left by people retiring or changing careers — even a shrinking occupation can have many openings.
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Sources: ILO WP140 (2025) · Eurostat lfsa_egai2d · Cedefop Skills Forecast 2026 · WEF Future of Jobs 2025 · ESCO. The exposure score measures how much of an occupation's tasks generative AI could perform — not whether the job disappears. For information only, not career advice. How do we calculate this?