Financial analysts
Almost every task can be done with generative AI, with little uncertainty. This is where the change is biggest — and where switching makes most sense.
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 62/100, financial analysts see generative AI accelerating forecasting and report drafting, but strong demand and high-stakes advisory responsibilities ensure human oversight and strategic judgment remain essential.
What changes
- Drafting written reports and synthesizing broad economic or corporate trends across industries.
- Processing financial data to generate baseline forecasting models and macroeconomic projections.
- Monitoring corporate filings, news feeds, and disclosures to screen and compare securities.
What stays human
- Tailoring high-stakes investment recommendations and taking fiduciary accountability for client decisions.
- Conducting personal interviews with corporate executives to evaluate unquantifiable management nuances.
- Negotiating syndicated security pricing and structuring public offerings under uncertain market conditions.
What to learn
- Prompting and auditing automated financial forecasting models for hallucinations or distribution shifts.
- Translating quantitative AI analytics into persuasive, client-tailored executive briefings and investment narratives.
- Specializing in proprietary private-market due diligence and qualitative founder assessments.
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).
- Presenting oral and written reports on general economic trends, individual corporations, and entire industries.68
- Analysing financial information to produce forecasts of business, industry, and economic conditions for use in making investment decisions65
- Monitoring economic, industrial, and corporate developments through analysis of information obtained from financial publications and services, investment banking firms, government agencies, trade publications, company sources and personal interviews64
- Recommending investments and investment timing to companies, investment firm staff or the investing public64
- Determining the prices at which securities should be syndicated and offered to the public64
- Evaluating and comparing the relative quality of various securities in a given industry64
- Preparing plans of action for investment based on financial analyses62
- Interpreting data affecting investment programmes, such as price, yield, stability, future trends in investment risks and economic influences62
- Maintaining knowledge and staying abreast of developments in the fields of industrial technology, business, finance, and economic theory46
How much does it affect you?
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For each task: I don't do it · sometimes · most of my job.
- Presenting oral and written reports on general economic trends, individual corporations, and entire industries.(68)
- Analysing financial information to produce forecasts of business, industry, and economic conditions for use in making investment decisions(65)
- Monitoring economic, industrial, and corporate developments through analysis of information obtained from financial publications and services, investment banking firms, government agencies, trade publications, company sources and personal interviews(64)
- Recommending investments and investment timing to companies, investment firm staff or the investing public(64)
- Determining the prices at which securities should be syndicated and offered to the public(64)
- Evaluating and comparing the relative quality of various securities in a given industry(64)
- Preparing plans of action for investment based on financial analyses(62)
- Interpreting data affecting investment programmes, such as price, yield, stability, future trends in investment risks and economic influences(62)
- Maintaining knowledge and staying abreast of developments in the fields of industrial technology, business, finance, and economic theory(46)
You are exactly at the occupation average. (The occupation's score: 62.)
About 89% of your working time goes to highly exposed tasks (score ≥ 50).
- • Presenting oral and written reports on general economic trends, individual corporations, and entire industries.
- • Analysing financial information to produce forecasts of business, industry, and economic conditions for use in making investment decisions
- • Maintaining knowledge and staying abreast of developments in the fields of industrial technology, business, finance, and economic theory
- • Interpreting data affecting investment programmes, such as price, yield, stability, future trends in investment risks and economic influences
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 Business and administration professionals group in total employment, by country (Eurostat, ISCO 2-digit — 4-digit breakdowns are not public by country).
Table view
| Country | Business and administration professionals |
|---|---|
| Luxembourg | 18.0% · 59 thousand · 2025 |
| Lithuania | 10.7% · 155 thousand · 2025 |
| Netherlands | 9.8% · 962 thousand · 2025 |
| Sweden | 7.7% · 405 thousand · 2025 |
| Ireland | 7.3% · 203 thousand · 2025 |
| Poland | 6.5% · 1,109 thousand · 2025 |
| Malta | 6.3% · 21 thousand · 2025 |
| Norway | 6.3% · 182 thousand · 2025 |
| Denmark | 6.2% · 191 thousand · 2025 |
| France | 6.2% · 1,823 thousand · 2025 |
| Estonia | 5.8% · 41 thousand · 2025 |
| Bulgaria | 5.8% · 168 thousand · 2025 |
| Belgium | 5.7% · 294 thousand · 2025 |
| Finland | 5.5% · 142 thousand · 2025 |
| Latvia | 5.1% · 45 thousand · 2025 |
| Cyprus | 4.9% · 25 thousand · 2025 |
| United Kingdom | 4.9% · 1,677 thousand · 2025 |
| Romania | 4.8% · 368 thousand · 2025 |
| Hungary | 4.6% · 213 thousand · 2025 |
| Czechia | 4.4% · 232 thousand · 2025 |
| Germany | 4.4% · 1,848 thousand · 2025 |
| Switzerland | 4.4% · 211 thousand · 2025 |
| Portugal | 4.2% · 220 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovenia | 4.1% · 41 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovakia | 4.0% · 104 thousand · 2025 |
| Austria | 3.7% · 164 thousand · 2025 |
| Iceland | 3.4% · 8 thousand · 2025 |
| Greece | 3.2% · 140 thousand · 2025 |
| Croatia | 3.1% · 54 thousand · 2025 |
| Spain | 2.9% · 653 thousand · 2025 |
| Italy | 2.7% · 656 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 Business and administration 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?