Personnel and careers professionals
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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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).
- Studying and analysing jobs performed in an establishment by various means, including interviews with workers, supervisors and management, and writing detailed position, job or occupation descriptions from information obtained53
- Preparing occupational information or working on occupational classification systems51
- Studying and advising individuals on employment opportunities, career choices and further education or training that may be desirable.43
- Advising on and performing personnel functions relating to employee recruitment, placement, training, promotion, compensation, and employee-management relations or other areas of personnel policy39
- Advising and working on the foregoing and other aspects of job and occupational analysis in such fields as personnel administration, workforce research and planning, training or occupational information and vocational guidance39
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.
- Studying and analysing jobs performed in an establishment by various means, including interviews with workers, supervisors and management, and writing detailed position, job or occupation descriptions from information obtained(53)
- Preparing occupational information or working on occupational classification systems(51)
- Studying and advising individuals on employment opportunities, career choices and further education or training that may be desirable.(43)
- Advising on and performing personnel functions relating to employee recruitment, placement, training, promotion, compensation, and employee-management relations or other areas of personnel policy(39)
- Advising and working on the foregoing and other aspects of job and occupational analysis in such fields as personnel administration, workforce research and planning, training or occupational information and vocational guidance(39)
You are exactly at the occupation average. (The occupation's score: 45.)
About 40% of your working time goes to highly exposed tasks (score ≥ 50).
- • Studying and analysing jobs performed in an establishment by various means, including interviews with workers, supervisors and management, and writing detailed position, job or occupation descriptions from information obtained
- • Preparing occupational information or working on occupational classification systems
- • Advising and working on the foregoing and other aspects of job and occupational analysis in such fields as personnel administration, workforce research and planning, training or occupational information and vocational guidance
- • Advising on and performing personnel functions relating to employee recruitment, placement, training, promotion, compensation, and employee-management relations or other areas of personnel policy
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?