Health services managers
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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With an exposure score of 36/100 and 27.8% group growth projected by 2035, AI will mainly support administration and coordination. Accountability for services, workforce leadership and external representation remains human.
What changes
- Drafting budgets, expenditure reports and supply analyses for managerial review
- Preparing coordination briefs for providers, boards and funding bodies
- Turning operational data into proposed objectives, criteria and performance standards
What stays human
- Making accountable decisions on service quality, safety, staffing and resource trade-offs
- Supervising, evaluating and developing multidisciplinary healthcare teams with contextual judgment
- Representing the organization in negotiations, hearings and sensitive stakeholder discussions
What to learn
- Learn healthcare analytics and dashboard validation for beds, staffing, equipment and demand
- Build AI-assisted budgeting skills, including audit trails, privacy controls and error checking
- Strengthen negotiation, workforce leadership and policy communication across clinical and funding stakeholders
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).
- Controlling administrative operations such as budget planning, report preparation and expenditure on supplies, equipment and services49
- Liaising with other health and welfare service providers, boards and funding bodies to coordinate the provision of services42
- Establishing objectives and evaluative or operational criteria for units they manage39
- Providing overall direction and management for the service, facility, organization or centre36
- Developing, implementing and monitoring procedures, policies and performance standards for medical, nursing, technical and administrative staff35
- Advising government bodies about measures to improve health and welfare services and facilities35
- Directing, supervising and evaluating the work activities of medical, nursing, technical, clerical, service, maintenance, and other personnel34
- Monitoring the use of diagnostic services, inpatient beds, facilities and staff to ensure effective use of resources, and assess the need for additional staff, equipment, and services34
- Directing or conducting recruitment, hiring and training of personnel32
- Representing the organization in negotiations, and at conventions, seminars, public hearings and forums.29
How much does it affect you?
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For each task: I don't do it · sometimes · most of my job.
- Controlling administrative operations such as budget planning, report preparation and expenditure on supplies, equipment and services(49)
- Liaising with other health and welfare service providers, boards and funding bodies to coordinate the provision of services(42)
- Establishing objectives and evaluative or operational criteria for units they manage(39)
- Providing overall direction and management for the service, facility, organization or centre(36)
- Developing, implementing and monitoring procedures, policies and performance standards for medical, nursing, technical and administrative staff(35)
- Advising government bodies about measures to improve health and welfare services and facilities(35)
- Directing, supervising and evaluating the work activities of medical, nursing, technical, clerical, service, maintenance, and other personnel(34)
- Monitoring the use of diagnostic services, inpatient beds, facilities and staff to ensure effective use of resources, and assess the need for additional staff, equipment, and services(34)
- Directing or conducting recruitment, hiring and training of personnel(32)
- Representing the organization in negotiations, and at conventions, seminars, public hearings and forums.(29)
You are exactly at the occupation average. (The occupation's score: 36.)
About 0% of your working time goes to highly exposed tasks (score ≥ 50).
- • Controlling administrative operations such as budget planning, report preparation and expenditure on supplies, equipment and services
- • Liaising with other health and welfare service providers, boards and funding bodies to coordinate the provision of services
- • Representing the organization in negotiations, and at conventions, seminars, public hearings and forums.
- • Directing or conducting recruitment, hiring and training of personnel
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How many people work in this occupational group?
Share of the Production and specialised services managers group in total employment, by country (Eurostat, ISCO 2-digit — 4-digit breakdowns are not public by country).
Table view
| Country | Production and specialised services managers |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 5.5% · 1,892 thousand · 2025 |
| Estonia | 4.6% · 32 thousand · 2025 |
| Ireland | 4.1% · 115 thousand · 2025 |
| Iceland | 3.2% · 7 thousand · 2025 |
| Croatia | 3.2% · 54 thousand · 2025 |
| Malta | 3.1% · 10 thousand · 2025 |
| Sweden | 3.0% · 158 thousand · 2025 |
| Bulgaria | 2.8% · 82 thousand · 2025 |
| Norway | 2.8% · 80 thousand · 2025 |
| Belgium | 2.7% · 140 thousand · 2025 |
| Latvia | 2.7% · 24 thousand · 2025 |
| Hungary | 2.5% · 118 thousand · 2025 |
| France | 2.5% · 728 thousand · 2025 |
| Switzerland | 2.5% · 119 thousand · 2025 |
| Netherlands | 2.4% · 238 thousand · 2025 |
| Lithuania | 2.3% · 33 thousand · 2025 |
| Poland | 2.2% · 381 thousand · 2025 |
| Portugal | 2.1% · 109 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovakia | 1.9% · 49 thousand · 2025 |
| Austria | 1.9% · 84 thousand · 2025 |
| Cyprus | 1.9% · 9 thousand · 2025 |
| Czechia | 1.7% · 91 thousand · 2025 |
| Italy | 1.4% · 341 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovenia | 1.4% · 14 thousand · 2025 |
| Germany | 1.3% · 569 thousand · 2025 |
| Finland | 1.3% · 34 thousand · 2025 |
| Spain | 1.3% · 292 thousand · 2025 |
| Denmark | 1.2% · 38 thousand · 2025 |
| Romania | 0.9% · 72 thousand · 2025 |
| Greece | 0.9% · 38 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 Production and specialised services managers 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?