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Elementary occupations · code 9629

Elementary workers not elsewhere classified

This unit group covers elementary workers not classified elsewhere in Major Group 9: Elementary Workers. For instance, the group includes those who issue and collect parking or admission tickets, provide personal items to patrons or customers in cloakrooms, and assist patrons at entertainment events. In such cases tasks would include - (a) selling admission tickets and passes to patrons at entertainment events or collecting tickets, passes and tags from patrons; (b) examining tickets or passes to verify authenticity, using criteria such as colour and date issued; (c) guiding patrons to exits or providing other instructions or assistance in case of emergency; (d) directing patrons to restrooms, concession stands and telephones; (e) directing vehicle drivers to parking spaces; (f) patrolling parking areas in order to prevent vehicle damage and vehicle property theft; (g) calculating parking charges and collecting fees from customers; (h) assigning dressing room facilities, locker space, or clothing containers to patrons of athletic or bathing establishments. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Cloakroom attendant - Fairground attendant - Parking attendant - Ticket collector - Usher Some related occupations classified elsewhere: - Parking valet - 8322

A few tasks are affected, but the heart of the job isn't. It ranks 235 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • advertising installer
  • attraction operator
  • locker room attendant
  • laundromat attendant
  • usher
  • amusement and recreation attendant
  • cloak room attendant

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

70.8
Holds up
against AI Minimal Exposure

AI could take on 29.2 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 29.2 = 70.8

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

41.8
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, averaged across 5 US jobs

25.7
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 30.7 · hand skill 31.5 · cramped spaces 15 · 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 41.8 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 48.5, while the average is 29.2. 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. 48.5

    Selling admission tickets and passes to patrons at entertainment events or collecting tickets, passes and tags from patrons

    Low
  2. 45

    Examining tickets or passes to verify authenticity, using criteria such as colour and date issued

    Low
  3. 37.5

    Calculating parking charges and collecting fees from customers

    Low
  4. 33

    Directing patrons to restrooms, concession stands and telephones

    Low
  5. 20.5

    Directing vehicle drivers to parking spaces

    Very Low
  6. 19

    Patrolling parking areas in order to prevent vehicle damage and vehicle property thefts

    Very Low
  7. 16.8

    Assigning dressing room facilities, locker space or clothing containers to patrons of athletic or bathing establishments.

    Very Low
  8. 13.5

    Guiding patrons to exits or providing other instructions or assistance in case of emergency

    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
42
AI does it for you
24.5

Helping wins by 17.5 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 4319, 8999

Compared with similar jobs

There are 33 jobs in the “Elementary occupations” group, averaging 85.4. This one is below that.