ISCO 2

Professionals

Knowledge-intensive specialist work with high formal qualifications.

Occupation groups

ISCO aggregates in this family

Employees

1,021,300

Sum across mapped groups

Avg. AI impact

6.1/10

job-weighted

Median earnings

€59K

gross annual, weighted

Interactive breakdown of employment and exposure inside this ISCO family.

Employment by AI impact (0–10)

Professionals

Job share (top 8 groups)

1. Teaching professionals · 245,000 (28.0%)
2. Doctors & medical specialists · 156,773 (17.9%)
3. Software developers & IT professiona · 129,400 (14.8%)
4. Lawyers, accountants & consultants · 127,563 (14.6%)
5. Architects & engineering consultants · 71,293 (8.2%)
6. Social & community workers · 49,334 (5.6%)
7. Film, TV & broadcasting · 47,874 (5.5%)
8. Publishing, media & broadcasting · 47,392 (5.4%)

Occupation groups in this family

Veterinarians & agricultural scientists · 38,127 · AI 3/10
Pharmaceutical production · 22,241 · AI 5/10
Civil engineers & architects · 35,757 · AI 6/10
Publishing, media & broadcasting · 47,392 · AI 8/10
Film, TV & broadcasting · 47,874 · AI 7/10
Software developers & IT professionals · 129,400 · AI 9/10
Lawyers, accountants & consultants · 127,563 · AI 7/10
Architects & engineering consultants · 71,293 · AI 6/10
Research scientists & academics · 23,009 · AI 7/10
Advertising, marketing & other professional · 27,537 · AI 8/10
Teaching professionals · 245,000 · AI 5/10
Doctors & medical specialists · 156,773 · AI 5/10
Social & community workers · 49,334 · AI 4/10

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 →