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Craft and related trades workers · code 7549

Craft and related workers not elsewhere classified

This group covers craft and trade occupations not classified elsewhere in Major Group 7: Craft and Related Trades Workers. For instance, the group includes those who mould, slice, grind and polish optical lenses and those who arrange flowers for display. In such cases tasks would include - (a) heating, moulding and pressing optical glass to make lens blanks; (b) grinding and polishing lens blanks. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Flower arranger - Optical lens finisher - Optical lens moulder

None of this job's tasks scored high enough to count. It ranks 68 of 427 for holding up against AI.

85.6
Holds up
against AI Not Exposed

AI could take on 14.4 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 14.4 = 85.6

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

47
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, averaged across 2 US jobs

35.6
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 47.4 · hand skill 42 · cramped spaces 17.5 · 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 47 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 15, while the average is 14.4. 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. 15

    Grinding and polishing lens blanks.

    Very Low
  2. 13.8

    Heating, moulding and pressing optical glass to make lens blanks

    Very Low

2 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
29

Helping wins by 31.5 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 3621, 3999

Compared with similar jobs

There are 65 jobs in the “Craft and related trades workers” group, averaging 83.4. This one is above that.