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Technicians and associate professionals · code 3413

Religious associate professionals

Religious associate professionals provide support to ministers of religion or to a religious community, undertake religious works, preach and propagate the teachings of a particular religion and endeavour to improve well-being through the power of faith and spiritual advice. Tasks include - (a) undertaking religious works; (b) preaching and propagating the teachings of a particular religious faith; (c) assisting at services of public worship and religious rites; (d) providing religious education, spiritual guidance and moral support to individuals and communities; (e) administering and participating in programmes to provide food, clothing and shelter to those in need; (f) advising communities and individuals on proper behaviour and faith to preserve or improve well-being. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Faith healer - Lay preacher - Monk - Nun Some related occupations classified elsewhere: - Bonze - 2636 - Imam - 2636 - Minister of religion - 2636 - Poojari - 2636 - Priest - 2636 - Rabbi - 2636 - Herbalist - 3230 - Village healer - 3230 - Witch doctor - 3230

None of this job's tasks scored high enough to count. It ranks 34 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • pastoral worker
  • monk/nun

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

87.9
Holds up
against AI Not Exposed

AI could take on 12.1 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 12.1 = 87.9

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

What this number leaves out There's no close match for this job in the US data, so we can't say how hands-on it is. The score above only looks at AI tools.

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 21.5, while the average is 12.1. 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. 21.5

    Administering and participating in programmes to provide food, clothing and shelter to those in need

    Very Low
  2. 20.3

    Advising communities and individuals on proper behaviour and faith to preserve or improve well-being.

    Very Low
  3. 9.5

    Providing religious education, spiritual guidance and moral support to individuals and communities

    Very Low
  4. 9

    Preaching and propagating the teachings of a particular religious faith

    Very Low
  5. 6.8

    Assisting at services of public worship and religious rites

    Very Low
  6. 5.3

    Undertaking religious works

    Very Low

6 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
47
AI does it for you
28

Helping wins by 19 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 2722, 4518

Compared with similar jobs

There are 82 jobs in the “Technicians and associate professionals” group, averaging 65.1. This one is above that.