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Craft and related trades workers · code 7313

Jewellery and precious-metal workers

Jewellery and precious metal workers design, fabricate, adjust, repair or appraise jewellery, ceremonial or religious items, gold, silver, other precious metals or gems. They cut, file, polish and set precious and semi-precious stones including gems and diamonds, and engrave designs on jewellery and precious metal articles. They cut and polish diamonds for industrial purposes. Tasks include - (a) casting jewellery and other non-ferrous metal articles by hand; (b) creating new jewellery designs and modifying existing designs, using computers as necessary; (c) cutting designs in moulds or other materials to be used as models in the fabrication of metal and jewellery products; (d) altering existing jewellery mountings in order to reposition jewels or to adjust mountings; (e) repairing, reshaping and restyling old jewellery or precious metal ware following designs or instructions; (f) making complete jewellery articles such as rings, necklaces, bangles, brooches and bracelets from materials such as gold, silver, platinum and precious or semi-precious stones; (g) examining gem surfaces and internal structures, using polariscopes, refractometers, microscopes and other optical instruments to differentiate between stones, to identify rare specimens, or to detect flaws, defects or peculiarities affecting gem values; (h) cutting and polishing gems and setting them in jewellery articles; (i) engraving or embossing letters, designs or decorative lines on jewellery and precious metal ware; (j) grinding, drilling and finishing jewel bearings for use in precision instruments such as compasses and chronometers; (k) examining assembled or finished products to ensure conformity with specifications, using magnifying glasses or precision measuring instruments. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Enameller (jewellery) - Gem setter - Goldsmith - Jeweller - Silversmith

None of this job's tasks scored high enough to count. It ranks 110 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • jeweller
  • precious stone cutter

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

82.4
Holds up
against AI Not Exposed

AI could take on 17.6 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 17.6 = 82.4

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

40.6
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, averaged across 2 US jobs

36.9
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 59.8 · hand skill 43.8 · cramped spaces 7.2 · 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 40.6 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 28.5, while the average is 17.6. 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. 28.5

    Examining assembled or finished products to ensure conformance to specifications, using magnifying glasses or precision measuring instruments.

    Low
  2. 25

    Examining gem surfaces and internal structures, using polariscopes, refractometers, microscopes, and other optical instruments to differentiate between stones, to identify rare specimens, or to detect flaws, defects or peculiarities affecting gem values

    Low
  3. 22.5

    Creating new jewellery designs and modifying existing designs, using computers as necessary

    Very Low
  4. 16.5

    Altering existing jewellery mountings in order to reposition jewels or to adjust mountings

    Very Low
  5. 15

    Cutting designs in moulds or other materials to be used as models in the fabrication of metal and jewellery products

    Very Low
  6. 15

    Engraving or embossing letters, designs or decorative lines on jewellery and precious metal ware

    Very Low
  7. 14.8

    Making complete jewellery articles such as rings, necklaces, bangles, brooches and bracelets from materials such as gold, silver, platinum and precious or semi-precious stones

    Very Low
  8. 14.6

    Repairing, reshaping and restyling old jewellery or precious metal ware following designs or instructions

    Very Low
  9. 14.5

    Cutting and polishing gems and setting them in jewellery articles

    Very Low
  10. 14.3

    Casting jewellery and other non-ferrous metal articles by hand

    Very Low
  11. 12.5

    Grinding, drilling and finishing jewel bearings for use in precision instruments such as compasses and chronometers

    Very Low

11 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.

One Australian job matches this one closely, so this is about as reliable as it gets here.

AI helps you
58
AI does it for you
19

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 3994

Compared with similar jobs

There are 65 jobs in the “Craft and related trades workers” group, averaging 83.5. This one is below that.