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Professionals · code 2636

Religious professionals

Religious professionals function as perpetuators of sacred traditions, practices and beliefs. They conduct religious services, celebrate or administer the rites of a religious faith or denomination, provide spiritual and moral guidance and perform other functions associated with the practice of a religion. Tasks include - (a) perpetuating sacred traditions, practices and beliefs; (b) conducting religious services, rites and ceremonies; (c) undertaking various administrative and social duties, including participating in committees and meetings of religious organizations; (d) providing spiritual and moral guidance in accordance with the religion professed; (e) propagating religious doctrines in own country or abroad; (f) preparing and presenting religious sermons; (g) developing and directing study courses and religious education programmes; (h) counselling individuals regarding interpersonal, health, financial and religious problems; (i) scheduling and participating in special events such as camps, conferences, seminars and retreats. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Bonze - Imam - Minister of religion - Poojari - Priest - Rabbi Some related occupations classified elsewhere: - Lay preacher - 3413 - Monk - 3413 - Nun - 3413 Note Members of religious orders whose work involves performing the tasks of other occupations, for example as teachers, nurses or welfare support workers, should be classified according to the main tasks and duties performed in the job.

None of this job's tasks scored high enough to count. It ranks 88 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • religion scientific researcher
  • minister of religion
  • chaplain
  • missionary

Job titles from the EU's ESCO list. Search for any of them on the jobs page and you'll end up here.

83.4
Holds up
against AI Not Exposed

AI could take on 16.6 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 16.6 = 83.4

That's the whole sum, and you can check it against the ILO's study.

25.3
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, averaged across 2 US jobs

3.1
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 6.3 · hand skill 1.8 · cramped spaces 1.1 · averaged

Kind of hands-on work · hands-on under 50 Less than half hands-on

Less than half of this job is hands-on. Robots still matter, but for a smaller part of the work, so we don't sort it any further.

estimated O*NET 31.0 BLS occupational crosswalk chain ISCO-08 to 2010 SOC (Aug 2012, rev. Jun 2015); 2010 to 2018 SOC (Nov 2017); O*NET-SOC 2019 taxonomy data 0.7-work-setting measures chosen by Frey & Osborne (2017) · the grouping is a sorting, not a measurement

What this number leaves out This job rates 25.3 out of 100 for how hands-on it is. The score above only looks at AI tools, not robots, but for work this far from the physical that matters less.

The tasks behind the score

The score is the average of these. A job is really a bundle of tasks, and an average can hide how uneven that bundle is.

The task AI could do most of scores 38.8, while the average is 16.6. A big gap means some of this job is wide open to AI and some of it barely at all. That's quite different from a job where everything sits somewhere in the middle, even when the averages match.

  1. 38.8

    Scheduling and participating in special events such as camps, conferences, seminars, and retreats.

    Low
  2. 27

    Counselling individuals regarding interpersonal, health, financial, and religious problems

    Low
  3. 25.5

    Undertaking various administrative and social duties, including participating in committees and meetings of religious organizations

    Low
  4. 18.3

    Preparing and presenting religious sermons

    Very Low
  5. 15.3

    Developing and directing study courses and religious education programmes

    Very Low
  6. 7.5

    Propagating religious doctrines in own country or abroad

    Very Low
  7. 6.1

    Providing spiritual and moral guidance in accordance with the religion professed

    Very Low
  8. 5.6

    Conducting religious services, rites and ceremonies

    Very Low
  9. 5.3

    Perpetuating sacred traditions, practices and beliefs

    Very Low

9 tasks · the High to Very Low labels are the ILO's

from the source Working Paper 140, Generative AI and Jobs 2025 index data 0.7-work-setting

Helped, or replaced?

The score above can't tell a tool that makes you faster from one that does the task instead of you. Jobs and Skills Australia looked at those two things separately, and this is their result, matched to this job.

2 Australian jobs match this one, and we've simply averaged them. Treat the numbers as a rough guide.

AI helps you
62
AI does it for you
33.5

Helping wins by 28.5 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 1399, 2722

Compared with similar jobs

There are 92 jobs in the “Professionals” group, averaging 61.1. This one is above that.