Forestry and related 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).
- Training and supervising other workers in forestry procedures, including forestry labourers and plant operators.22
- Keeping watch to detect forest fires, participating in firefighting operations, completing firefighting reports and maintaining firefighting equipment17
- Operating and maintaining a skidder, bulldozer or other prime mover to pull a variety of scarification or site preparation equipment over areas to be regenerated17
- Assessing sites for reforestation, selecting seedlings and planting trees using manual planting tools and establishing and caring for forest stands13
- Locating trees to be felled and estimating volume of timber12
- Collecting seed cones, pruning trees, assisting in planting surveys and marking trees for subsequent operations11
- Shaping rough wooden products from logs at felling site8
- Controlling weeds and undergrowth in regenerating forest stands using manual tools and chemicals8
- Operating chainsaw and other power saws to thin young forest stands, trim, top and fell trees and saw them into logs7
- Stacking logs and loading them in chutes or floating them down rivers7
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.
- Training and supervising other workers in forestry procedures, including forestry labourers and plant operators.(22)
- Keeping watch to detect forest fires, participating in firefighting operations, completing firefighting reports and maintaining firefighting equipment(17)
- Operating and maintaining a skidder, bulldozer or other prime mover to pull a variety of scarification or site preparation equipment over areas to be regenerated(17)
- Assessing sites for reforestation, selecting seedlings and planting trees using manual planting tools and establishing and caring for forest stands(13)
- Locating trees to be felled and estimating volume of timber(12)
- Collecting seed cones, pruning trees, assisting in planting surveys and marking trees for subsequent operations(11)
- Shaping rough wooden products from logs at felling site(8)
- Controlling weeds and undergrowth in regenerating forest stands using manual tools and chemicals(8)
- Operating chainsaw and other power saws to thin young forest stands, trim, top and fell trees and saw them into logs(7)
- Stacking logs and loading them in chutes or floating them down rivers(7)
You are exactly at the occupation average. (The occupation's score: 12.)
About 0% of your working time goes to highly exposed tasks (score ≥ 50).
- • Training and supervising other workers in forestry procedures, including forestry labourers and plant operators.
- • Keeping watch to detect forest fires, participating in firefighting operations, completing firefighting reports and maintaining firefighting equipment
- • Stacking logs and loading them in chutes or floating them down rivers
- • Operating chainsaw and other power saws to thin young forest stands, trim, top and fell trees and saw them into logs
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 Market-oriented skilled forestry, fishery and hunting workers group in total employment, by country (Eurostat, ISCO 2-digit — 4-digit breakdowns are not public by country).
Table view
| Country | Market-oriented skilled forestry, fishery and hunting workers |
|---|---|
| Iceland | 0.9% · 2 thousand · 2025 |
| Latvia | 0.5% · 5 thousand · 2025 |
| Norway | 0.4% · 12 thousand · 2025 |
| Finland | 0.4% · 10 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovakia | 0.4% · 9 thousand · 2025 |
| Croatia | 0.3% · 5 thousand · 2025 |
| Portugal | 0.3% · 16 thousand · 2025 |
| Czechia | 0.3% · 14 thousand · 2025 |
| Hungary | 0.3% · 12 thousand · 2025 |
| Bulgaria | 0.3% · 8 thousand · 2025 |
| Greece | 0.2% · 9 thousand · 2025 |
| Lithuania | 0.2% · 3 thousand · 2025 |
| Sweden | 0.2% · 10 thousand · 2025 |
| Malta | 0.2% · 1 thousand · 2025 |
| Romania | 0.2% · 13 thousand · 2025 |
| France | 0.2% · 46 thousand · 2025 |
| Italy | 0.1% · 34 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovenia | 0.1% · 1 thousand · 2025 |
| Spain | 0.1% · 27 thousand · 2025 |
| Switzerland | 0.1% · 6 thousand · 2025 |
| Austria | 0.1% · 5 thousand · 2025 |
| United Kingdom | 0.1% · 36 thousand · 2025 |
| Poland | 0.1% · 18 thousand · 2025 |
| Denmark | 0.1% · 2 thousand · 2025 |
| Germany | 0.1% · 21 thousand · 2025 |
| Netherlands | 0.0% · 2 thousand · 2025 |
What do they earn?
Mean gross monthly earnings in the major occupational group (Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery 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.
- Switzerland3,810
- Denmark3,077
- Norway2,863
- Luxembourg2,596
- Ireland2,457
- EU272,404
- Germany2,358
- Sweden2,193
- Finland2,149
- Italy2,137
- Netherlands2,083
- France1,931
- Spain1,780
- Slovenia1,689
- Malta1,516
- Greece1,475
- Latvia1,454
- Estonia1,427
- Poland1,425
- Lithuania1,398
- Czechia1,365
- Croatia1,348
- Romania1,348
- Cyprus1,311
- Slovakia1,189
- Portugal1,137
- Hungary1,120
- Bulgaria777
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 Market-oriented skilled forestry, fishery and hunting 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.
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?