Pet groomers and animal care workers
In the ILO's assessment few of the job's tasks can be done by generative AI, or the scores are too spread out to reach gradient 1 — generative AI does not meaningfully take over the core of the work.
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).
- Labelling drugs, chemicals and other pharmaceutical preparations and replenishing stock25
- Training animals to develop and maintain desired behaviours for competition, entertainment, obedience, security, riding and other activities17
- Sterilising bottles, beakers and other equipment17
- Collecting and recording animal information such as weight, size, physical condition, treatments received, medications given and food intake17
- Leading or carrying animals to treatment room and holding them during treatment14
- Bathing and feeding animals11
- Cleaning and sterilising veterinary surgical instruments10
- Cleaning, organizing, and disinfecting animal quarters such as pens, stables, cages and yards, and animal equipment such as saddles and bridles8
- Grooming animals by performing tasks such as washing, brushing, clipping, and trimming coats, cutting nails and cleaning ears.8
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.
- Labelling drugs, chemicals and other pharmaceutical preparations and replenishing stock(25)
- Training animals to develop and maintain desired behaviours for competition, entertainment, obedience, security, riding and other activities(17)
- Sterilising bottles, beakers and other equipment(17)
- Collecting and recording animal information such as weight, size, physical condition, treatments received, medications given and food intake(17)
- Leading or carrying animals to treatment room and holding them during treatment(14)
- Bathing and feeding animals(11)
- Cleaning and sterilising veterinary surgical instruments(10)
- Cleaning, organizing, and disinfecting animal quarters such as pens, stables, cages and yards, and animal equipment such as saddles and bridles(8)
- Grooming animals by performing tasks such as washing, brushing, clipping, and trimming coats, cutting nails and cleaning ears.(8)
You are exactly at the occupation average. (The occupation's score: 14.)
About 0% of your working time goes to highly exposed tasks (score ≥ 50).
- • Labelling drugs, chemicals and other pharmaceutical preparations and replenishing stock
- • Training animals to develop and maintain desired behaviours for competition, entertainment, obedience, security, riding and other activities
- • Cleaning, organizing, and disinfecting animal quarters such as pens, stables, cages and yards, and animal equipment such as saddles and bridles
- • Grooming animals by performing tasks such as washing, brushing, clipping, and trimming coats, cutting nails and cleaning ears.
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 Personal service workers group in total employment, by country (Eurostat, ISCO 2-digit — 4-digit breakdowns are not public by country).
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| Country | Personal service workers |
|---|---|
| Cyprus | 6.9% · 35 thousand · 2025 |
| Greece | 6.4% · 276 thousand · 2025 |
| Italy | 5.9% · 1,417 thousand · 2025 |
| Croatia | 5.9% · 100 thousand · 2025 |
| Austria | 5.8% · 259 thousand · 2025 |
| Latvia | 5.7% · 51 thousand · 2025 |
| Switzerland | 5.6% · 271 thousand · 2025 |
| Iceland | 5.5% · 13 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovakia | 5.5% · 142 thousand · 2025 |
| Czechia | 5.0% · 261 thousand · 2025 |
| Malta | 4.9% · 16 thousand · 2025 |
| Netherlands | 4.8% · 471 thousand · 2025 |
| Finland | 4.7% · 122 thousand · 2025 |
| Germany | 4.7% · 1,993 thousand · 2025 |
| Portugal | 4.6% · 240 thousand · 2025 |
| Spain | 4.5% · 1,007 thousand · 2025 |
| Norway | 4.5% · 131 thousand · 2025 |
| Bulgaria | 4.4% · 129 thousand · 2025 |
| Ireland | 4.4% · 123 thousand · 2025 |
| Hungary | 4.2% · 197 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovenia | 4.2% · 42 thousand · 2025 |
| Estonia | 4.1% · 28 thousand · 2025 |
| Romania | 3.9% · 300 thousand · 2025 |
| Denmark | 3.9% · 119 thousand · 2025 |
| Belgium | 3.8% · 197 thousand · 2025 |
| Lithuania | 3.7% · 55 thousand · 2025 |
| France | 3.5% · 1,032 thousand · 2025 |
| Luxembourg | 3.4% · 11 thousand · 2025 |
| Sweden | 3.2% · 170 thousand · 2025 |
| Poland | 2.9% · 496 thousand · 2025 |
| United Kingdom | 2.1% · 718 thousand · 2025 |
What do they earn?
Mean gross monthly earnings in the major occupational group (Service and sales workers). 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.
- Switzerland3,559
- Ireland2,981
- Iceland2,762
- Norway2,734
- Luxembourg2,698
- Belgium2,689
- Denmark2,619
- Germany2,310
- Sweden2,292
- Finland2,182
- Netherlands2,147
- Austria2,135
- EU272,105
- France2,099
- Italy2,088
- Slovenia1,822
- Malta1,773
- Spain1,759
- Lithuania1,577
- Czechia1,467
- Poland1,464
- Croatia1,458
- Greece1,421
- Cyprus1,410
- Slovakia1,403
- Romania1,372
- Hungary1,299
- Estonia1,266
- Portugal1,202
- Latvia1,186
- Bulgaria917
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 Personal service workers 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?