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Service and sales workers · code 5311

Child care workers

Child care workers provide care and supervision for children in residential homes and in before-school, after-school, vacation and day care centres. Tasks include - (a) assisting children to wash, dress and feed themselves; (b) taking children to and from school or outdoors for recreation; (c) playing games with children, or entertaining them by reading or storytelling; (d) assisting in the preparation of materials and equipment for children’s education and recreational activities; (e) managing children’s behaviour and guiding their social development; (f) disciplining children and recommending or initiating other measures to control behaviour, such as caring for own clothing and picking up toys and books; (g) observing and monitoring children’s play activities; (h) keeping records on individual children, including daily observations and information about activities, meals served and medications administered. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Babysitter - Child care worker - Creche ayah - Family day care worker - Nanny - Out of school hours care worker Some related occupations classified elsewhere: - Early childhood educator - 2342

None of this job's tasks scored high enough to count. It ranks 132 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • child care worker
  • school bus attendant

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

80.9
Holds up
against AI Not Exposed

AI could take on 19.1 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 19.1 = 80.9

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

44.4
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, averaged across 5 US jobs

25.4
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 29.8 · hand skill 28.5 · cramped spaces 18 · 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 44.4 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 40, while the average is 19.1. 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. 40

    Keeping records on individual children, including daily observations and information about activities, meals served, and medications administered.

    Low
  2. 24.5

    Assisting in the preparation of materials and equipment for children's education and recreational activities

    Very Low
  3. 18

    Playing games with children, or entertaining them by reading or storytelling

    Very Low
  4. 16.3

    Taking children to and from school or outdoors for recreation

    Very Low
  5. 14.3

    Disciplining children and recommending or initiating other measures to control behaviour, such as caring for own clothing and picking up toys and books

    Very Low
  6. 13.9

    Managing children's behaviour and guiding their social development

    Very Low
  7. 13.5

    Observing and monitoring children's play activities

    Very Low
  8. 12

    Assisting children to wash, dress and feed themselves

    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.

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

AI helps you
60.5
AI does it for you
21.5

Helping wins by 39 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 4211, 4234

Compared with similar jobs

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