ISCO 8

Plant, machine operators & assemblers

Equipment operation, industrial processes, transport, and assembly lines.

Occupation groups

ISCO aggregates in this family

Employees

237,001

Sum across mapped groups

Avg. AI impact

3.0/10

job-weighted

Median earnings

€38K

gross annual, weighted

Interactive breakdown of employment and exposure inside this ISCO family.

Employment by AI impact (0–10)

Plant, machine operators & assemblers

Job share (top 8 groups)

1. Land transport & drivers · 158,300 (66.8%)
2. Rubber & plastic products · 21,944 (9.3%)
3. Non-metallic mineral products · 19,854 (8.4%)
4. Chemical production workers · 14,831 (6.3%)
5. Motor vehicle production · 11,620 (4.9%)
6. Other transport equipment · 5,280 (2.2%)
7. Mining technicians & engineers · 3,877 (1.6%)
8. Petroleum refining · 1,295 (0.5%)

Occupation groups in this family

Mining technicians & engineers · 3,877 · AI 3/10
Chemical production workers · 14,831 · AI 4/10
Motor vehicle production · 11,620 · AI 4/10
Other transport equipment · 5,280 · AI 3/10
Petroleum refining · 1,295 · AI 3/10
Rubber & plastic products · 21,944 · AI 3/10
Non-metallic mineral products · 19,854 · AI 2/10
Land transport & drivers · 158,300 · 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 →