Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers
AI can help with a few sub-tasks (emails, paperwork), but the core of the job doesn't change.
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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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).
- Recording production and operational data on specified forms60
- Reviewing work orders, specifications, diagrams and drawings to determine materials needed and assembly instructions27
- Inspecting and testing completed components and assemblies, wiring installations and circuits and rejecting faulty assembly components26
- Assembling component parts and electrical and electronic systems and positioning, aligning and fastening units to assemblies, subassemblies or frames using hand or power tools, soldering and micro-welding equipment14
- Operating wire-coiling machines to wind wire coils used in electrical equipment and components such as registers, transformers, armature wires, electric motors and generators12
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.
- Recording production and operational data on specified forms(60)
- Reviewing work orders, specifications, diagrams and drawings to determine materials needed and assembly instructions(27)
- Inspecting and testing completed components and assemblies, wiring installations and circuits and rejecting faulty assembly components(26)
- Assembling component parts and electrical and electronic systems and positioning, aligning and fastening units to assemblies, subassemblies or frames using hand or power tools, soldering and micro-welding equipment(14)
- Operating wire-coiling machines to wind wire coils used in electrical equipment and components such as registers, transformers, armature wires, electric motors and generators(12)
You are exactly at the occupation average. (The occupation's score: 28.)
About 20% of your working time goes to highly exposed tasks (score ≥ 50).
- • Recording production and operational data on specified forms
- • Reviewing work orders, specifications, diagrams and drawings to determine materials needed and assembly instructions
- • Operating wire-coiling machines to wind wire coils used in electrical equipment and components such as registers, transformers, armature wires, electric motors and generators
- • Assembling component parts and electrical and electronic systems and positioning, aligning and fastening units to assemblies, subassemblies or frames using hand or power tools, soldering and micro-welding equipment
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How many people work in this occupational group?
Share of the Assemblers group in total employment, by country (Eurostat, ISCO 2-digit — 4-digit breakdowns are not public by country).
Table view
| Country | Assemblers |
|---|---|
| Slovakia | 2.9% · 75 thousand · 2025 |
| Hungary | 2.5% · 116 thousand · 2025 |
| Czechia | 2.1% · 112 thousand · 2025 |
| Romania | 1.8% · 139 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovenia | 1.5% · 15 thousand · 2025 |
| Estonia | 1.2% · 9 thousand · 2025 |
| Malta | 1.2% · 4 thousand · 2025 |
| Ireland | 0.9% · 24 thousand · 2025 |
| Bulgaria | 0.9% · 25 thousand · 2025 |
| Poland | 0.8% · 138 thousand · 2025 |
| Lithuania | 0.8% · 11 thousand · 2025 |
| Finland | 0.7% · 19 thousand · 2025 |
| Sweden | 0.7% · 38 thousand · 2025 |
| Italy | 0.7% · 167 thousand · 2025 |
| Croatia | 0.6% · 10 thousand · 2025 |
| Spain | 0.5% · 116 thousand · 2025 |
| Germany | 0.5% · 214 thousand · 2025 |
| Portugal | 0.4% · 23 thousand · 2025 |
| France | 0.4% · 122 thousand · 2025 |
| Latvia | 0.4% · 4 thousand · 2025 |
| Belgium | 0.4% · 19 thousand · 2025 |
| Denmark | 0.3% · 10 thousand · 2025 |
| Austria | 0.3% · 14 thousand · 2025 |
| Netherlands | 0.3% · 26 thousand · 2025 |
| Switzerland | 0.2% · 11 thousand · 2025 |
| United Kingdom | 0.2% · 75 thousand · 2025 |
| Norway | 0.2% · 6 thousand · 2025 |
| Greece | 0.1% · 5 thousand · 2025 |
What do they earn?
Mean gross monthly earnings in the major occupational group (Plant and machine operators and assemblers). 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.
- Switzerland3,902
- Denmark3,581
- Norway3,391
- Iceland3,272
- Ireland3,013
- Belgium3,003
- Luxembourg2,848
- Finland2,711
- Austria2,708
- Netherlands2,689
- Germany2,646
- Sweden2,578
- Italy2,397
- EU272,188
- Spain2,169
- France2,125
- Slovenia1,961
- Poland1,931
- Lithuania1,895
- Cyprus1,832
- Malta1,828
- Greece1,726
- Estonia1,653
- Romania1,652
- Hungary1,630
- Croatia1,623
- Czechia1,621
- Latvia1,590
- Slovakia1,571
- Portugal1,289
- Bulgaria1,106
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 Assemblers 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?