ISCO 7

Craft & related trades

Skilled manual production, repair, installation, and building trades.

Occupation groups

ISCO aggregates in this family

Employees

504,599

Sum across mapped groups

Avg. AI impact

2.7/10

job-weighted

Median earnings

€44K

gross annual, weighted

Interactive breakdown of employment and exposure inside this ISCO family.

Employment by AI impact (0–10)

Craft & related trades

Job share (top 8 groups)

1. Building trades workers · 120,967 (27.5%)
2. Electrical equipment manufacturing · 74,100 (16.8%)
3. Machinery & equipment manufacturing · 51,829 (11.8%)
4. Painters & building finishers · 50,933 (11.6%)
5. Motor vehicle trade & repair · 45,197 (10.3%)
6. Fabricated metal products workers · 41,113 (9.3%)
7. Food, beverages & tobacco workers · 34,674 (7.9%)
8. Metal workers & machinists · 21,677 (4.9%)

Occupation groups in this family

Food, beverages & tobacco workers · 34,674 · AI 2/10
Textile & apparel workers · 5,424 · AI 3/10
Wood & paper processing · 12,251 · AI 2/10
Metal workers & machinists · 21,677 · AI 3/10
Fabricated metal products workers · 41,113 · AI 3/10
Electrical equipment manufacturing · 74,100 · AI 4/10
Machinery & equipment manufacturing · 51,829 · AI 4/10
Paper & printing workers · 10,842 · AI 3/10
Printing & media reproduction · 5,958 · AI 4/10
Furniture & other manufacturing · 15,850 · AI 2/10
Machinery repair & installation · 13,784 · AI 3/10
Building trades workers · 120,967 · AI 2/10
Painters & building finishers · 50,933 · AI 1/10
Motor vehicle trade & repair · 45,197 · AI 3/10

Source & methodology

Employment: Eurostat lfsa_egai2d (EU LFS / Mikrozensus AKE 2024) by ISCO-08, split using NACE sector weights (nama_10_a64_e). Pay: Structure of Earnings Survey 2022 (Statistik Austria OGD). AI impact: Karpathy-compatible 0–10 rubric. Outlook: WIFO/AMS employment forecast 2023–2030.

Pipeline: deterministic, no LLM at build time, all source data publicly downloadable (OGD), 99 hypothesis-driven verification tests. Full methodology →