ISCO 81 · ÖNACE C

Chemical production workers

Plant, machine operators & assemblers · C20 · ÖNACE C Sector

AI impact

4/10

Employees

14,831

Median gross annual earnings

€41,809

~€3,484 / month (estimated)

Education

Upper secondary (Matura)

Supplementary Structure of Earnings Survey (VSE 2022)

Statistik Austria earnings survey — gross hourly medians for ISCO-08 81 (full-time, all genders). “Employees”: LFS/Mikrozensus (ISCO) with NACE weighting; pay: VSE sample — different survey bases.

Gross hourly median

€17.18

Quartiles (Q25–Q75)

€13.86 – €21.15

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

€35,734

VSE sample size

69,485

Classification

ISCO major group

Plant, machine operators & assemblers

Sector context

C20 · ÖNACE C

AI impact rationale

Process monitoring via SCADA systems comprises approximately 40% of work. Physical tasks: sampling, equipment maintenance, material handling. AI applications: predictive process control, anomaly detection in sensor data, yield optimisation.

Source, methodology, and reproducibility

Employment: Eurostat lfsa_egai2d (2024) · ISCO-08 81 · 61,800 employed
Survey: LFS/Mikrozensus AKE
NACE weight: 24.0% · nama_10_a64_e · NACE C20
Pay: VSE 2022 · ISCO-08 81 · €17.18/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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