Machinery & equipment manufacturing

Supplementary Structure of Earnings Survey (VSE 2022)

Statistik Austria earnings survey — gross hourly medians for ISCO-08 72 (full-time, all genders). “Employees”: LFS/Mikrozensus (ISCO) with NACE weighting; pay: VSE sample — different survey bases.

Classification

AI impact rationale

Engineering design (CAD/CAE), production planning, and physical assembly/testing. Approximately 40% digital task share. AI applications: generative design, simulation-based optimisation, digital twin integration for predictive maintenance.

Source, methodology, and reproducibility

Employment

Eurostat lfsa_egai2d (2024) · ISCO-08 72 · 173,600 employed

Survey

LFS/Mikrozensus AKE

NACE weight

29.9% · nama_10_a64_e · NACE C28

Pay

VSE 2022 · ISCO-08 72 · €18.63/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