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Service and sales workers · code 5142

Beauticians and related workers

Beauticians and related workers give facial and body beauty treatments, apply cosmetics and make-up and give other kinds of treatment to individuals in order to improve their appearance. Tasks include - (a) cleaning and applying creams, lotions and related products to face and other parts of the body; (b) giving facial and body massage; (c) applying make-up to clients of a beauty parlour or to actors and other performers; (d) cleaning, shaping and polishing finger- and toenails and treating ailments of the human foot such as corns, calluses or deformed toenails; (e) attending to clients taking baths and administering elementary massage; (f) using waxing, sugaring and depilation techniques to remove unwanted bodily hair; (g) advising clients on diet and exercise to assist in weight loss and slimming; (h) arranging appointments and collecting payments. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Bath attendant - Beautician - Make-up artist - Manicurist - Pedicurist - Slimming consultant

None of this job's tasks scored high enough to count. It ranks 121 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • make-up artist
  • masseur/masseuse
  • beauty salon attendant
  • weight loss consultant
  • manicurist
  • pedicurist
  • hair removal technician
  • make-up and hair designer
  • personal stylist
  • tanning consultant
  • spa attendant
  • aesthetician

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

81.7
Holds up
against AI Not Exposed

AI could take on 18.3 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 18.3 = 81.7

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

41.6
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, averaged across 8 US jobs , so treat it as rough

35.8
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 42.7 · hand skill 40.8 · cramped spaces 23.9 · 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 41.6 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 53.8, while the average is 18.3. 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. 53.8

    Arranging appointments and collecting payments.

    Medium
  2. 42.8

    Advising clients on diet and exercise to assist in weight loss and slimming

    Low
  3. 10.5

    Applying make-up to clients of a beauty parlour or to actors and other performers

    Very Low
  4. 9

    Cleaning and applying creams, lotions and related products to face and other parts of the body

    Very Low
  5. 8.3

    Attending to clients taking baths and administering elementary massage

    Very Low
  6. 7.8

    Cleaning, shaping and polishing finger- and toe-nails and treating ailments of the human foot such as corns, calluses or deformed toe-nails

    Very Low
  7. 7.5

    Giving facial and body massage

    Very Low
  8. 7

    Using waxing, sugaring and depilation techniques to remove unwanted bodily hair

    Very Low

8 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
58.4
AI does it for you
30

Helping wins by 28.4 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 3995, 4511, 4515, 4518, 6211

Compared with similar jobs

There are 39 jobs in the “Service and sales workers” group, averaging 74.2. This one is above that.