Training and staff development 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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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).
- Gathering, investigating and researching background materials to gain an understanding of various subject matters and systems.61
- Preparing and developing instructional training material and aids such as handbooks, visual aids, online tutorials, demonstration models and supporting training reference documentation49
- Promoting internal and external training and development, and evaluating these promotional activities38
- Designing, coordinating, scheduling and conducting training and development programmes that can be delivered in the form of individual and group instruction, and facilitating workshops, meetings, demonstrations and conferences37
- Setting human resource development objectives and evaluating learning outcomes37
- Liaising with external training providers to arrange delivery of specific training and development programmes35
- Identifying training needs and requirements of individuals and organizations35
- Monitoring and performing ongoing evaluation and assessment of internal and external training quality and effectiveness, and reviewing and modifying training objectives, methods and course deliverables35
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.
- Gathering, investigating and researching background materials to gain an understanding of various subject matters and systems.(61)
- Preparing and developing instructional training material and aids such as handbooks, visual aids, online tutorials, demonstration models and supporting training reference documentation(49)
- Promoting internal and external training and development, and evaluating these promotional activities(38)
- Designing, coordinating, scheduling and conducting training and development programmes that can be delivered in the form of individual and group instruction, and facilitating workshops, meetings, demonstrations and conferences(37)
- Setting human resource development objectives and evaluating learning outcomes(37)
- Liaising with external training providers to arrange delivery of specific training and development programmes(35)
- Identifying training needs and requirements of individuals and organizations(35)
- Monitoring and performing ongoing evaluation and assessment of internal and external training quality and effectiveness, and reviewing and modifying training objectives, methods and course deliverables(35)
You are exactly at the occupation average. (The occupation's score: 41.)
About 13% of your working time goes to highly exposed tasks (score ≥ 50).
- • Gathering, investigating and researching background materials to gain an understanding of various subject matters and systems.
- • Preparing and developing instructional training material and aids such as handbooks, visual aids, online tutorials, demonstration models and supporting training reference documentation
- • Identifying training needs and requirements of individuals and organizations
- • Monitoring and performing ongoing evaluation and assessment of internal and external training quality and effectiveness, and reviewing and modifying training objectives, methods and course deliverables
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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?