Early childhood educators
In the ILO's assessment few of the job's tasks can be done by generative AI, or the scores are too spread out to reach gradient 1 — generative AI does not meaningfully take over the core of the work.
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.
Work out your own score ↓What can you do?
The AI analysis for this occupation is still being prepared — the background process covers a few occupations every day.
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).
- Planning and organizing individual and group activities designed to facilitate the development of children's motor skills, cooperative and social skills, confidence and understanding28
- Observing and assessing nutritional health, welfare and safety needs of students and identifying factors which may impede students' progress25
- Discussing progress or problems of children with parents and other staff members and identifying appropriate actions and referrals to other services25
- Establishing and maintaining collaborative relationships with other service providers working with young children.23
- Promoting language development through story-telling, role-play, songs, rhymes and informal conversations and discussions22
- Observing children in order to evaluate progress and to detect signs of developmental, emotional or health related problems19
- Supervising children's activities to ensure safety and resolve conflicts18
- Leading children in activities that provide opportunities for creative expression through the media of art, dramatic play, music and physical fitness18
- Guiding and assisting children in the development of proper eating, dressing and toilet habits11
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.
- Planning and organizing individual and group activities designed to facilitate the development of children's motor skills, cooperative and social skills, confidence and understanding(28)
- Observing and assessing nutritional health, welfare and safety needs of students and identifying factors which may impede students' progress(25)
- Discussing progress or problems of children with parents and other staff members and identifying appropriate actions and referrals to other services(25)
- Establishing and maintaining collaborative relationships with other service providers working with young children.(23)
- Promoting language development through story-telling, role-play, songs, rhymes and informal conversations and discussions(22)
- Observing children in order to evaluate progress and to detect signs of developmental, emotional or health related problems(19)
- Supervising children's activities to ensure safety and resolve conflicts(18)
- Leading children in activities that provide opportunities for creative expression through the media of art, dramatic play, music and physical fitness(18)
- Guiding and assisting children in the development of proper eating, dressing and toilet habits(11)
You are exactly at the occupation average. (The occupation's score: 21.)
About 0% of your working time goes to highly exposed tasks (score ≥ 50).
- • Planning and organizing individual and group activities designed to facilitate the development of children's motor skills, cooperative and social skills, confidence and understanding
- • Observing and assessing nutritional health, welfare and safety needs of students and identifying factors which may impede students' progress
- • Guiding and assisting children in the development of proper eating, dressing and toilet habits
- • Leading children in activities that provide opportunities for creative expression through the media of art, dramatic play, music and physical fitness
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 Teaching professionals group in total employment, by country (Eurostat, ISCO 2-digit — 4-digit breakdowns are not public by country).
Table view
| Country | Teaching professionals |
|---|---|
| Iceland | 9.0% · 20 thousand · 2025 |
| Belgium | 7.2% · 370 thousand · 2025 |
| Denmark | 7.1% · 217 thousand · 2025 |
| Norway | 6.9% · 199 thousand · 2025 |
| Greece | 6.8% · 294 thousand · 2025 |
| Luxembourg | 6.7% · 22 thousand · 2025 |
| Sweden | 6.4% · 338 thousand · 2025 |
| Germany | 5.9% · 2,503 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovenia | 5.9% · 59 thousand · 2025 |
| Ireland | 5.7% · 158 thousand · 2025 |
| Croatia | 5.6% · 96 thousand · 2025 |
| Spain | 5.6% · 1,244 thousand · 2025 |
| Italy | 5.6% · 1,345 thousand · 2025 |
| Estonia | 5.5% · 38 thousand · 2025 |
| Finland | 5.5% · 142 thousand · 2025 |
| Cyprus | 5.4% · 27 thousand · 2025 |
| Austria | 5.4% · 244 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovakia | 5.4% · 140 thousand · 2025 |
| Poland | 5.3% · 904 thousand · 2025 |
| United Kingdom | 5.2% · 1,788 thousand · 2025 |
| Portugal | 5.2% · 271 thousand · 2025 |
| Czechia | 5.1% · 268 thousand · 2025 |
| Netherlands | 5.0% · 491 thousand · 2025 |
| Hungary | 5.0% · 233 thousand · 2025 |
| Latvia | 4.8% · 43 thousand · 2025 |
| Switzerland | 4.7% · 227 thousand · 2025 |
| France | 4.7% · 1,372 thousand · 2025 |
| Lithuania | 4.5% · 66 thousand · 2025 |
| Bulgaria | 4.3% · 127 thousand · 2025 |
| Malta | 3.9% · 13 thousand · 2025 |
| Romania | 3.5% · 268 thousand · 2025 |
What do they earn?
Mean gross monthly earnings in the major occupational group (Professionals). 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.
- Switzerland6,389
- Luxembourg5,274
- Ireland4,873
- Germany4,807
- Belgium4,799
- Denmark4,446
- Norway4,237
- Austria4,099
- Netherlands4,031
- Iceland3,875
- EU273,850
- France3,791
- Finland3,769
- Romania3,559
- Sweden3,416
- Spain3,413
- Slovenia3,326
- Italy3,305
- Cyprus3,271
- Lithuania3,221
- Croatia2,890
- Czechia2,871
- Malta2,825
- Poland2,783
- Hungary2,777
- Portugal2,755
- Latvia2,671
- Estonia2,599
- Bulgaria2,359
- Slovakia2,345
- Greece2,321
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 Teaching professionals 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?