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Concrete placers, concrete finishers and related workers

Not exposedExposure gradient (ILO 2025)

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.

Exposure score
10/ 100 · ±3
050100
Average of all occupations: 30

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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Change since 2023
+1
2023 classification
Not affected

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).

  • Making shuttering or assembling prefabricated forms for moulding concrete14
  • Constructing and repairing reinforced concrete floors, walls, tanks, silos and other concrete structures12
  • Finishing and smoothing surfaces of concrete structures9
  • Cementing openings in walls or casings for wells9
  • Applying a durable, smooth surfacing composed of cement, sand pigment and marble particles to floors, known as a terrazzo finish8

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.

  • Making shuttering or assembling prefabricated forms for moulding concrete(14)
  • Constructing and repairing reinforced concrete floors, walls, tanks, silos and other concrete structures(12)
  • Finishing and smoothing surfaces of concrete structures(9)
  • Cementing openings in walls or casings for wells(9)
  • Applying a durable, smooth surfacing composed of cement, sand pigment and marble particles to floors, known as a terrazzo finish(8)
Your estimated exposure score
10/ 100

You are exactly at the occupation average. (The occupation's score: 10.)

About 0% of your working time goes to highly exposed tasks (score ≥ 50).

Most affected
  • • Making shuttering or assembling prefabricated forms for moulding concrete
  • • Constructing and repairing reinforced concrete floors, walls, tanks, silos and other concrete structures
Most likely to stay human
  • • Applying a durable, smooth surfacing composed of cement, sand pigment and marble particles to floors, known as a terrazzo finish
  • • Cementing openings in walls or casings for wells

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 Building and related trades workers, excluding electricians group in total employment, by country (Eurostat, ISCO 2-digit — 4-digit breakdowns are not public by country).

Building and related trades workers, excluding electricians
Table view
CountryBuilding and related trades workers, excluding electricians
Romania5.9% · 451 thousand · 2025
Cyprus5.3% · 27 thousand · 2025
Poland5.3% · 907 thousand · 2025
Estonia5.1% · 36 thousand · 2025
Malta5.1% · 17 thousand · 2025
Czechia4.8% · 250 thousand · 2025
Spain4.6% · 1,014 thousand · 2025
Italy4.3% · 1,043 thousand · 2025
Portugal4.3% · 224 thousand · 2025
Lithuania4.3% · 62 thousand · 2025
Iceland4.2% · 9 thousand · 2025
Austria4.1% · 182 thousand · 2025
Hungary3.9% · 182 thousand · 2025
Slovakia3.8% · 100 thousand · 2025
Slovenia3.8% · 38 thousand · 2025
Finland3.6% · 93 thousand · 2025
Belgium3.5% · 182 thousand · 2025
Norway3.5% · 100 thousand · 2025
Bulgaria3.4% · 101 thousand · 2025
Sweden3.4% · 181 thousand · 2025
Greece3.4% · 145 thousand · 2025
France3.2% · 946 thousand · 2025
Latvia3.2% · 28 thousand · 2025
Switzerland3.0% · 146 thousand · 2025
Croatia2.9% · 49 thousand · 2025
Denmark2.8% · 86 thousand · 2025
Ireland2.8% · 78 thousand · 2025
United Kingdom2.6% · 891 thousand · 2025
Germany2.4% · 1,030 thousand · 2025
Netherlands2.4% · 238 thousand · 2025
7.69 m
Building and related trades workers, excluding electricians — EU27
Eurostat · 2025
3.7%
of all employed (EU27)

What do they earn?

Mean gross monthly earnings in the major occupational group (Craft and related trades 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.

€2,364
EU average (gross/month)
−18% compared with the average of all occupations

By country, at purchasing power parity (PPS/month), so countries with different price levels can be compared.

  1. Switzerland4,098
  2. Iceland3,826
  3. Denmark3,666
  4. Norway3,260
  5. Belgium2,979
  6. Germany2,859
  7. Luxembourg2,760
  8. Sweden2,733
  9. Netherlands2,717
  10. Austria2,715
  11. Finland2,711
  12. EU272,364
  13. Italy2,314
  14. Ireland2,200
  15. Spain2,124
  16. France2,122
  17. Malta2,032
  18. Slovenia2,012
  19. Lithuania2,008
  20. Greece1,799
  21. Estonia1,795
  22. Poland1,787
  23. Czechia1,781
  24. Cyprus1,751
  25. Romania1,734
  26. Hungary1,684
  27. Latvia1,680
  28. Slovakia1,672
  29. Croatia1,505
  30. Portugal1,285
  31. Bulgaria1,217

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 Building and related trades workers, excluding electricians group according to Cedefop's 2026 forecast.

8001,0001,051201520192023202720312035

thousand · Cedefop Skills Forecast 2026 · 2026–2035: projection

+2.9%
Change 2025→2035
+29 k
Expansion
228 k
Replacement demand
257 k
Total expected openings

Replacement demand is the jobs left by people retiring or changing careers — even a shrinking occupation can have many openings.

Related occupations

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?