Social work associate professionals
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?
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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).
- Collecting information relevant to clients’ needs and assessing their relevant skills, strengths and deficits56
- Assisting in evaluating the effectiveness of interventions and programmes by monitoring and reporting on clients' progress50
- Assisting clients to identify options and develop plans of action while providing necessary support and assistance41
- Assisting clients to identify and access community resources including legal, medical and financial assistance, housing, employment, transportation, assistance with moves, day care and other referral services37
- Participating in the selection and admission of clients to appropriate programmes31
- Helping persons with disabilities or the elderly to obtain services and to improve their ability to function in society27
- Implementing life skills workshops, substance abuse treatment programmes, behaviour management programmes, youth services programmes and other community and social service programmes under the supervision of social work or health care professionals25
- Maintaining contact with other social service agencies, schools and health care providers involved with clients to provide information and obtain feedback on clients' overall situation and progress.24
- Counselling clients living in group homes and half-way houses, supervising their activities and assisting in pre-release and release planning21
- Providing crisis intervention and emergency shelter services18
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.
- Collecting information relevant to clients’ needs and assessing their relevant skills, strengths and deficits(56)
- Assisting in evaluating the effectiveness of interventions and programmes by monitoring and reporting on clients' progress(50)
- Assisting clients to identify options and develop plans of action while providing necessary support and assistance(41)
- Assisting clients to identify and access community resources including legal, medical and financial assistance, housing, employment, transportation, assistance with moves, day care and other referral services(37)
- Participating in the selection and admission of clients to appropriate programmes(31)
- Helping persons with disabilities or the elderly to obtain services and to improve their ability to function in society(27)
- Implementing life skills workshops, substance abuse treatment programmes, behaviour management programmes, youth services programmes and other community and social service programmes under the supervision of social work or health care professionals(25)
- Maintaining contact with other social service agencies, schools and health care providers involved with clients to provide information and obtain feedback on clients' overall situation and progress.(24)
- Counselling clients living in group homes and half-way houses, supervising their activities and assisting in pre-release and release planning(21)
- Providing crisis intervention and emergency shelter services(18)
You are exactly at the occupation average. (The occupation's score: 33.)
About 20% of your working time goes to highly exposed tasks (score ≥ 50).
- • Collecting information relevant to clients‚Äô needs and assessing their relevant skills, strengths and deficits
- • Assisting in evaluating the effectiveness of interventions and programmes by monitoring and reporting on clients' progress
- • Providing crisis intervention and emergency shelter services
- • Counselling clients living in group homes and half-way houses, supervising their activities and assisting in pre-release and release planning
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 Legal, social, cultural and related associate professionals group in total employment, by country (Eurostat, ISCO 2-digit — 4-digit breakdowns are not public by country).
Table view
| Country | Legal, social, cultural and related associate professionals |
|---|---|
| Netherlands | 3.8% · 378 thousand · 2025 |
| United Kingdom | 3.6% · 1,235 thousand · 2025 |
| France | 3.5% · 1,039 thousand · 2025 |
| Finland | 3.3% · 84 thousand · 2025 |
| Switzerland | 2.9% · 139 thousand · 2025 |
| Malta | 2.6% · 9 thousand · 2025 |
| Luxembourg | 2.4% · 8 thousand · 2025 |
| Iceland | 2.3% · 5 thousand · 2025 |
| Ireland | 2.3% · 65 thousand · 2025 |
| Austria | 2.2% · 99 thousand · 2025 |
| Sweden | 2.2% · 115 thousand · 2025 |
| Hungary | 2.1% · 98 thousand · 2025 |
| Estonia | 1.9% · 14 thousand · 2025 |
| Norway | 1.9% · 55 thousand · 2025 |
| Belgium | 1.8% · 93 thousand · 2025 |
| Spain | 1.8% · 392 thousand · 2025 |
| Poland | 1.7% · 287 thousand · 2025 |
| Denmark | 1.6% · 50 thousand · 2025 |
| Lithuania | 1.5% · 23 thousand · 2025 |
| Portugal | 1.5% · 79 thousand · 2025 |
| Germany | 1.4% · 584 thousand · 2025 |
| Cyprus | 1.3% · 6 thousand · 2025 |
| Latvia | 1.3% · 11 thousand · 2025 |
| Italy | 1.2% · 296 thousand · 2025 |
| Greece | 1.2% · 53 thousand · 2025 |
| Czechia | 1.2% · 61 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovenia | 1.1% · 11 thousand · 2025 |
| Croatia | 0.9% · 15 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovakia | 0.9% · 22 thousand · 2025 |
| Bulgaria | 0.8% · 22 thousand · 2025 |
| Romania | 0.6% · 45 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 Legal, social, cultural and related 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?