ISCO 94 · ÖNACE I

Chefs & cooks

Elementary occupations · I · ÖNACE I Sector

AI impact

1/10

Employees

33,300

Median gross annual earnings

€24,798

~€2,067 / month (estimated)

Education

Apprenticeship (Lehre)

Supplementary Structure of Earnings Survey (VSE 2022)

Statistik Austria earnings survey — gross hourly medians for ISCO-08 94 (full-time, all genders). “Employees”: LFS/Mikrozensus (ISCO) with NACE weighting; pay: VSE sample — different survey bases.

Gross hourly median

€10.19

Quartiles (Q25–Q75)

€9.55 – €11.47

Estimated annual gross (×2,080 hours, excl. 13th/14th month salary)

€21,195

VSE sample size

34,659

Classification

ISCO major group

Elementary occupations

Sector context

I · ÖNACE I

AI impact rationale

Food preparation, cooking, plating, and kitchen management require manual dexterity and sensory judgement. Digital task share limited to inventory management and recipe documentation. Culinary execution is not automatable with current technology.

Source, methodology, and reproducibility

Employment: Eurostat lfsa_egai2d (2024) · ISCO-08 94 · 33,300 employed
Survey: LFS/Mikrozensus AKE
NACE weight: 100.0% · nama_10_a64_e · NACE I
Pay: VSE 2022 · ISCO-08 94 · €10.19/h median × 2080h × 1.17
Formula: hourly median × 2,080 h × 1.17 (13th/14th salary)
Pipeline: generate-occupations.ts · deterministic · OGD · 99 hypothesis-driven verification tests

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