Retail and wholesale trade managers
A substantial share of tasks can be sped up or taken over by AI. The content of the job will noticeably change — learning is cheapest now.
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).
- Promoting and advertising the establishment’s goods and services64
- Maintaining records of stock levels and financial transactions60
- Undertaking budgeting for the establishment49
- Formulating and implementing purchasing and marketing policies, and setting prices44
- Determining product mix, stock levels and service standards36
- Controlling selection, training and supervision of staff28
- Ensuring compliance with occupational health and safety regulations.26
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.
- Promoting and advertising the establishment’s goods and services(64)
- Maintaining records of stock levels and financial transactions(60)
- Undertaking budgeting for the establishment(49)
- Formulating and implementing purchasing and marketing policies, and setting prices(44)
- Determining product mix, stock levels and service standards(36)
- Controlling selection, training and supervision of staff(28)
- Ensuring compliance with occupational health and safety regulations.(26)
You are exactly at the occupation average. (The occupation's score: 44.)
About 29% of your working time goes to highly exposed tasks (score ≥ 50).
- • Promoting and advertising the establishment‚Äôs goods and services
- • Maintaining records of stock levels and financial transactions
- • Ensuring compliance with occupational health and safety regulations.
- • Controlling selection, training and supervision of staff
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How many people work in this occupational group?
Share of the Hospitality, retail and other services managers group in total employment, by country (Eurostat, ISCO 2-digit — 4-digit breakdowns are not public by country).
Table view
| Country | Hospitality, retail and other services managers |
|---|---|
| Malta | 3.4% · 11 thousand · 2025 |
| United Kingdom | 3.4% · 1,146 thousand · 2025 |
| Ireland | 3.0% · 84 thousand · 2025 |
| Bulgaria | 2.7% · 78 thousand · 2025 |
| Portugal | 2.0% · 106 thousand · 2025 |
| Estonia | 1.9% · 13 thousand · 2025 |
| Italy | 1.8% · 445 thousand · 2025 |
| France | 1.7% · 512 thousand · 2025 |
| Croatia | 1.7% · 30 thousand · 2025 |
| Poland | 1.7% · 296 thousand · 2025 |
| Norway | 1.6% · 46 thousand · 2025 |
| Spain | 1.4% · 317 thousand · 2025 |
| Iceland | 1.3% · 3 thousand · 2025 |
| Greece | 1.2% · 53 thousand · 2025 |
| Hungary | 1.1% · 53 thousand · 2025 |
| Belgium | 1.1% · 56 thousand · 2025 |
| Netherlands | 1.1% · 105 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovakia | 1.0% · 25 thousand · 2025 |
| Sweden | 0.9% · 49 thousand · 2025 |
| Cyprus | 0.9% · 5 thousand · 2025 |
| Latvia | 0.8% · 8 thousand · 2025 |
| Austria | 0.8% · 36 thousand · 2025 |
| Lithuania | 0.7% · 10 thousand · 2025 |
| Switzerland | 0.6% · 31 thousand · 2025 |
| Germany | 0.6% · 241 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovenia | 0.5% · 5 thousand · 2025 |
| Romania | 0.5% · 35 thousand · 2025 |
| Czechia | 0.4% · 21 thousand · 2025 |
| Finland | 0.4% · 10 thousand · 2025 |
| Denmark | 0.3% · 10 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 Hospitality, retail and other 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.
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?