Trade brokers
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).
- Monitoring and analysing market trends and other factors affecting the supply and demand for commodities and shipping services.62
- Establishing contact between buyers and sellers of commodities47
- Finding cargo and/or storage space for commodities and negotiating freight, shipping and storage charges45
- Discussing buying or selling requirements of clients and giving advice accordingly42
- Buying and selling cargo space on ships41
- Negotiating purchase or sale of commodities and commodity futures31
How much does it affect you?
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For each task: I don't do it · sometimes · most of my job.
- Monitoring and analysing market trends and other factors affecting the supply and demand for commodities and shipping services.(62)
- Establishing contact between buyers and sellers of commodities(47)
- Finding cargo and/or storage space for commodities and negotiating freight, shipping and storage charges(45)
- Discussing buying or selling requirements of clients and giving advice accordingly(42)
- Buying and selling cargo space on ships(41)
- Negotiating purchase or sale of commodities and commodity futures(31)
You are exactly at the occupation average. (The occupation's score: 44.)
About 17% of your working time goes to highly exposed tasks (score ≥ 50).
- • Monitoring and analysing market trends and other factors affecting the supply and demand for commodities and shipping services.
- • Establishing contact between buyers and sellers of commodities
- • Negotiating purchase or sale of commodities and commodity futures
- • Buying and selling cargo space on ships
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How many people work in this occupational group?
Share of the Business and administration associate 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 associate professionals |
|---|---|
| Cyprus | 10.6% · 53 thousand · 2025 |
| Luxembourg | 9.0% · 29 thousand · 2025 |
| Sweden | 8.6% · 450 thousand · 2025 |
| Austria | 8.3% · 373 thousand · 2025 |
| Latvia | 8.0% · 71 thousand · 2025 |
| Czechia | 7.8% · 405 thousand · 2025 |
| Hungary | 7.6% · 354 thousand · 2025 |
| Denmark | 7.6% · 232 thousand · 2025 |
| Germany | 7.4% · 3,144 thousand · 2025 |
| Italy | 7.4% · 1,772 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovenia | 7.2% · 72 thousand · 2025 |
| Netherlands | 6.9% · 682 thousand · 2025 |
| Estonia | 6.8% · 47 thousand · 2025 |
| France | 6.7% · 1,961 thousand · 2025 |
| Belgium | 6.6% · 341 thousand · 2025 |
| Iceland | 6.6% · 15 thousand · 2025 |
| Poland | 6.5% · 1,121 thousand · 2025 |
| United Kingdom | 6.2% · 2,127 thousand · 2025 |
| Ireland | 6.0% · 168 thousand · 2025 |
| Finland | 6.0% · 154 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovakia | 5.9% · 155 thousand · 2025 |
| Norway | 5.9% · 170 thousand · 2025 |
| Bulgaria | 5.7% · 167 thousand · 2025 |
| Portugal | 5.6% · 295 thousand · 2025 |
| Croatia | 5.6% · 94 thousand · 2025 |
| Malta | 5.3% · 17 thousand · 2025 |
| Switzerland | 5.1% · 244 thousand · 2025 |
| Spain | 5.0% · 1,113 thousand · 2025 |
| Lithuania | 4.3% · 63 thousand · 2025 |
| Romania | 3.5% · 268 thousand · 2025 |
| Greece | 3.5% · 151 thousand · 2025 |
What do they earn?
Mean gross monthly earnings in the major occupational group (Technicians and associate 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.
- Switzerland5,280
- Luxembourg4,320
- Norway4,307
- Denmark4,301
- Ireland4,024
- Belgium3,903
- Iceland3,856
- Germany3,608
- Austria3,399
- Netherlands3,247
- EU273,226
- Italy3,127
- Sweden3,089
- Finland2,971
- France2,687
- Spain2,685
- Slovenia2,660
- Cyprus2,537
- Lithuania2,472
- Malta2,464
- Romania2,310
- Poland2,294
- Czechia2,275
- Estonia2,251
- Croatia2,127
- Latvia2,081
- Hungary2,054
- Greece2,050
- Portugal2,044
- Slovakia2,027
- Bulgaria1,738
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 associate 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?