Customs and border inspectors
AI can help with a few sub-tasks (emails, paperwork), but the core of the job doesn't change.
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).
- Performing related administrative tasks to record findings, transactions, violations and determinations53
- Checking travel documents of persons crossing national borders to ensure that they have the necessary authorizations and certificates49
- Examining transport documents and freight of vehicles crossing national borders to ensure conformity with government rules and regulations concerning goods in transit and the import and export of goods, and to verify that necessary payments have been made43
- Inspecting the luggage of persons crossing national borders to ensure that it conforms to government rules and regulations concerning import or export of goods and currencies30
- When necessary, testifying in a court of law about the circumstances and results of investigations carried out.28
- Coordinating and cooperating with other agencies involved in law enforcement, deportation and prosecution25
- Detaining persons and seizing prohibited and undeclared goods found to be in violation of immigration and customs laws18
- Patrolling national borders and coastal waters to stop persons from illegally entering or leaving the country and from illegally importing or exporting currency or goods12
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.
- Performing related administrative tasks to record findings, transactions, violations and determinations(53)
- Checking travel documents of persons crossing national borders to ensure that they have the necessary authorizations and certificates(49)
- Examining transport documents and freight of vehicles crossing national borders to ensure conformity with government rules and regulations concerning goods in transit and the import and export of goods, and to verify that necessary payments have been made(43)
- Inspecting the luggage of persons crossing national borders to ensure that it conforms to government rules and regulations concerning import or export of goods and currencies(30)
- When necessary, testifying in a court of law about the circumstances and results of investigations carried out.(28)
- Coordinating and cooperating with other agencies involved in law enforcement, deportation and prosecution(25)
- Detaining persons and seizing prohibited and undeclared goods found to be in violation of immigration and customs laws(18)
- Patrolling national borders and coastal waters to stop persons from illegally entering or leaving the country and from illegally importing or exporting currency or goods(12)
You are exactly at the occupation average. (The occupation's score: 32.)
About 13% of your working time goes to highly exposed tasks (score ≥ 50).
- • Performing related administrative tasks to record findings, transactions, violations and determinations
- • Checking travel documents of persons crossing national borders to ensure that they have the necessary authorizations and certificates
- • Patrolling national borders and coastal waters to stop persons from illegally entering or leaving the country and from illegally importing or exporting currency or goods
- • Detaining persons and seizing prohibited and undeclared goods found to be in violation of immigration and customs laws
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 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?