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Upholsterers 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
18/ 100 · ±9
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
+2
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).

  • Discussing upholstery fabric, colour and style with customers and providing cost estimate for upholstering furniture or other items37
  • Collaborating with interior designers to decorate rooms and coordinate furnishing fabrics34
  • Making upholstery patterns from sketches, customer descriptions or blueprints24
  • Laying out, cutting, fabricating and installing upholstery in aircrafts, motor vehicles, railway cars, boats and ships15
  • Tacking, gluing or sewing ornamental trims, buckles, braids, buttons and other accessories to covers or frames on upholstered items15
  • Making quilts, cushions and mattresses.14
  • Renovating antique furniture using a variety of tools including ripping chisels, magnetic hammers and long needles14
  • Laying out, measuring and cutting upholstery materials following patterns, templates, sketches, or design specifications13
  • Installing, arranging and securing springs, padding and covering material to furniture frames13
  • Sewing rips or tears in material, or creating tufting, using needle and thread13
  • Sewing upholstery materials by hand to seam cushions and joining sections of covering materials12
  • Repairing raw hide covering of artificial limbs8

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.

  • Discussing upholstery fabric, colour and style with customers and providing cost estimate for upholstering furniture or other items(37)
  • Collaborating with interior designers to decorate rooms and coordinate furnishing fabrics(34)
  • Making upholstery patterns from sketches, customer descriptions or blueprints(24)
  • Laying out, cutting, fabricating and installing upholstery in aircrafts, motor vehicles, railway cars, boats and ships(15)
  • Tacking, gluing or sewing ornamental trims, buckles, braids, buttons and other accessories to covers or frames on upholstered items(15)
  • Making quilts, cushions and mattresses.(14)
  • Renovating antique furniture using a variety of tools including ripping chisels, magnetic hammers and long needles(14)
  • Laying out, measuring and cutting upholstery materials following patterns, templates, sketches, or design specifications(13)
  • Installing, arranging and securing springs, padding and covering material to furniture frames(13)
  • Sewing rips or tears in material, or creating tufting, using needle and thread(13)
  • Sewing upholstery materials by hand to seam cushions and joining sections of covering materials(12)
  • Repairing raw hide covering of artificial limbs(8)
Your estimated exposure score
18/ 100

You are exactly at the occupation average. (The occupation's score: 18.)

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

Most affected
  • • Discussing upholstery fabric, colour and style with customers and providing cost estimate for upholstering furniture or other items
  • • Collaborating with interior designers to decorate rooms and coordinate furnishing fabrics
Most likely to stay human
  • • Repairing raw hide covering of artificial limbs
  • • Sewing upholstery materials by hand to seam cushions and joining sections of covering materials

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 Food processing, wood working, garment and other craft and related trades workers group in total employment, by country (Eurostat, ISCO 2-digit — 4-digit breakdowns are not public by country).

Food processing, wood working, garment and other craft and related trades workers
Table view
CountryFood processing, wood working, garment and other craft and related trades workers
Romania3.2% · 250 thousand · 2025
Portugal2.9% · 150 thousand · 2025
Latvia2.8% · 25 thousand · 2025
Poland2.8% · 488 thousand · 2025
Lithuania2.8% · 41 thousand · 2025
Bulgaria2.7% · 80 thousand · 2025
Slovakia2.6% · 69 thousand · 2025
Slovenia2.5% · 25 thousand · 2025
Italy2.5% · 590 thousand · 2025
Hungary2.3% · 109 thousand · 2025
Czechia2.1% · 112 thousand · 2025
Greece1.9% · 82 thousand · 2025
Estonia1.8% · 13 thousand · 2025
Croatia1.7% · 30 thousand · 2025
Ireland1.7% · 48 thousand · 2025
Malta1.7% · 6 thousand · 2025
France1.6% · 458 thousand · 2025
Spain1.5% · 343 thousand · 2025
Germany1.5% · 636 thousand · 2025
Austria1.5% · 66 thousand · 2025
Belgium1.2% · 60 thousand · 2025
Iceland1.2% · 3 thousand · 2025
Switzerland1.1% · 54 thousand · 2025
Cyprus1.0% · 5 thousand · 2025
Netherlands0.8% · 78 thousand · 2025
Finland0.8% · 21 thousand · 2025
United Kingdom0.6% · 211 thousand · 2025
Denmark0.5% · 16 thousand · 2025
Sweden0.5% · 25 thousand · 2025
Norway0.4% · 12 thousand · 2025
3.83 m
Food processing, wood working, garment and other craft and related trades workers — EU27
Eurostat · 2025
1.8%
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 Food processing, wood working, garment and other craft and related trades workers group according to Cedefop's 2026 forecast.

300320340295201520192023202720312035

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

−0.6%
Change 2025→2035
−2 k
Expansion
58 k
Replacement demand
56 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?