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Technicians and associate professionals · code 3359

Regulatory government associate professionals not elsewhere classified

This unit group covers government regulatory associate professionals not classified elsewhere. For instance, the group includes agricultural, fisheries, forestry, prices, wages and weights and measures inspectors. In such cases tasks would include - (a) examining places of business to ensure the use of correct weights and measures in trade; (b) monitoring price regulations to assess appropriateness of costs for goods and services to protect consumer interests; (c) monitoring wage regulations to ensure appropriate levels of pay for work performed and to assess compliance with employment standards legislation; (d) performing related investigative and administrative tasks to record findings, document compliance problems or inappropriate business practices and to prepare reports and correspondence. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Agricultural inspector - Fisheries inspector - Forestry inspector - Prices inspector - Wage inspector - Weights and measures inspector Some related occupations classified elsewhere: - Fire inspector - 3112 - Health inspector - 3257 - Occupational health and safety inspector - 3257 - Pollution inspector - 3257 - Sanitary inspector - 3257

A few tasks are affected, but the heart of the job isn't. It ranks 283 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • fisheries observer
  • freight inspector
  • forestry inspector
  • gaming inspector
  • health and safety inspector
  • weights and measures inspector
  • consumer rights advisor
  • agricultural inspector

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

64
Holds up
against AI Minimal Exposure

AI could take on 36 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 36 = 64

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

50.8
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, matched to one US job

32.7
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 32.1 · hand skill 30.3 · cramped spaces 35.8 · averaged

Kind of hands-on work · hands-on 50+ · fiddly under 39.4 Hands-on, less fiddly work

Less fine handwork and fewer cramped spaces than a typical hands-on job. That clears one hurdle for machines. It doesn't mean machines are doing this work yet.

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 50.8 out of 100 for how hands-on it is. The score above only looks at AI tools, not robots, and for work like this robots are the bigger question.

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 47, while the average is 36. 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. 47

    Performing related investigative and administrative tasks to record findings, document compliance problems or inappropriate business practices and to prepare reports and correspondence.

    Low
  2. 42

    Monitoring price regulations to assess appropriateness of costs for goods and services to protect consumer interests

    Low
  3. 28

    Monitoring wage regulations to ensure appropriate levels of pay for work performed and to assess compliance with employment standards legislation

    Low
  4. 27

    Examining places of business to ensure the use of correct weights and measures in trade

    Low

4 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.

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

AI helps you
66.8
AI does it for you
40.8

Helping wins by 26 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 2249, 3113, 3121, 5619, 5995

Compared with similar jobs

There are 82 jobs in the “Technicians and associate professionals” group, averaging 65.4. This one is below that.