Pelt dressers, tanners and fellmongers
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.
Work out your own score ↓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).
- Sorting and grading pelts, hides and skins according to colour, shading, size and density15
- Dressing and applying dyes and stains to leather15
- Seasoning leather by applying chemical solution or oil evenly on surface by hand brush and allowing it to dry in open air.14
- Tinting or dyeing furs to enhance natural shades of fur13
- Preparing bark and myrobalan liquor for treating hides or skins13
- Removing wrinkles and setting grains on wet hide or skin12
- Treating hides and skins in tanning solution to convert them into leather11
- Tanning and dressing pelts to improve lustre and beauty or restore natural appearance of pelts10
- Stretching and smoothing dressed pelts10
- Preparing hides by curing them with salt10
- Removing hair from skin or hides soaked in lime water7
- Scraping particles of flesh, fat or protective tissue from skins or pelts to clean and soften them7
- Removing long, coarse hair from pelts and trimming underlying hair to even length7
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.
- Sorting and grading pelts, hides and skins according to colour, shading, size and density(15)
- Dressing and applying dyes and stains to leather(15)
- Seasoning leather by applying chemical solution or oil evenly on surface by hand brush and allowing it to dry in open air.(14)
- Tinting or dyeing furs to enhance natural shades of fur(13)
- Preparing bark and myrobalan liquor for treating hides or skins(13)
- Removing wrinkles and setting grains on wet hide or skin(12)
- Treating hides and skins in tanning solution to convert them into leather(11)
- Tanning and dressing pelts to improve lustre and beauty or restore natural appearance of pelts(10)
- Stretching and smoothing dressed pelts(10)
- Preparing hides by curing them with salt(10)
- Removing hair from skin or hides soaked in lime water(7)
- Scraping particles of flesh, fat or protective tissue from skins or pelts to clean and soften them(7)
- Removing long, coarse hair from pelts and trimming underlying hair to even length(7)
You are exactly at the occupation average. (The occupation's score: 11.)
About 0% of your working time goes to highly exposed tasks (score ≥ 50).
- • Sorting and grading pelts, hides and skins according to colour, shading, size and density
- • Dressing and applying dyes and stains to leather
- • Scraping particles of flesh, fat or protective tissue from skins or pelts to clean and soften them
- • Removing long, coarse hair from pelts and trimming underlying hair to even length
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).
Table view
| Country | Food processing, wood working, garment and other craft and related trades workers |
|---|---|
| Romania | 3.2% · 250 thousand · 2025 |
| Portugal | 2.9% · 150 thousand · 2025 |
| Latvia | 2.8% · 25 thousand · 2025 |
| Poland | 2.8% · 488 thousand · 2025 |
| Lithuania | 2.8% · 41 thousand · 2025 |
| Bulgaria | 2.7% · 80 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovakia | 2.6% · 69 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovenia | 2.5% · 25 thousand · 2025 |
| Italy | 2.5% · 590 thousand · 2025 |
| Hungary | 2.3% · 109 thousand · 2025 |
| Czechia | 2.1% · 112 thousand · 2025 |
| Greece | 1.9% · 82 thousand · 2025 |
| Estonia | 1.8% · 13 thousand · 2025 |
| Croatia | 1.7% · 30 thousand · 2025 |
| Ireland | 1.7% · 48 thousand · 2025 |
| Malta | 1.7% · 6 thousand · 2025 |
| France | 1.6% · 458 thousand · 2025 |
| Spain | 1.5% · 343 thousand · 2025 |
| Germany | 1.5% · 636 thousand · 2025 |
| Austria | 1.5% · 66 thousand · 2025 |
| Belgium | 1.2% · 60 thousand · 2025 |
| Iceland | 1.2% · 3 thousand · 2025 |
| Switzerland | 1.1% · 54 thousand · 2025 |
| Cyprus | 1.0% · 5 thousand · 2025 |
| Netherlands | 0.8% · 78 thousand · 2025 |
| Finland | 0.8% · 21 thousand · 2025 |
| United Kingdom | 0.6% · 211 thousand · 2025 |
| Denmark | 0.5% · 16 thousand · 2025 |
| Sweden | 0.5% · 25 thousand · 2025 |
| Norway | 0.4% · 12 thousand · 2025 |
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.
By country, at purchasing power parity (PPS/month), so countries with different price levels can be compared.
- Switzerland4,098
- Iceland3,826
- Denmark3,666
- Norway3,260
- Belgium2,979
- Germany2,859
- Luxembourg2,760
- Sweden2,733
- Netherlands2,717
- Austria2,715
- Finland2,711
- EU272,364
- Italy2,314
- Ireland2,200
- Spain2,124
- France2,122
- Malta2,032
- Slovenia2,012
- Lithuania2,008
- Greece1,799
- Estonia1,795
- Poland1,787
- Czechia1,781
- Cyprus1,751
- Romania1,734
- Hungary1,684
- Latvia1,680
- Slovakia1,672
- Croatia1,505
- Portugal1,285
- 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.
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?