Butchers, Fishmongers and Related Food Preparers

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On the International Labour Organization's 2025 global study, the 8 task statements that define Butchers, Fishmongers and Related Food Preparers (ISCO-08 7511) score an average of 0.13 on a 0–1 exposure scale — more exposed than about 8% of the 427 placed occupations. Roughly 0% of its tasks fall somewhere on the exposed part of the gradient, and the typical task lands in the Not exposed band.

Exposure is task overlap, not a verdict. A high score means a generative-AI model can do part of the content of these tasks — it says nothing about whether the work is automated, whether anyone uses AI for it today, or whether jobs are lost. The gradient is scored on the international ISCO-08 system; the rest of Singulariki is U.S. O*NET/SOC, bridged below by an approximate, many-to-many crosswalk.

How its tasks split across the gradient

Each of the 8 scored tasks for this occupation, sorted into the six exposure bands — cool (human ground) to hot (almost fully assistable).

The most-exposed task

“Selling meat or fish to customers, including wrapping, weighing and labelling products, and receiving payment.”

Scores 0.16 on the 2025 scale. The task of selling meat or fish to customers, including wrapping, weighing, labeling products, and receiving payment is a composite task involving both physical and transactional elements. Similar tasks involving physical handling of products like "Preparing meat and its processed products for sale" (0.078) and "Storing meat and its processed products at the point of sale" (0.135) reflect low automation potential due to the manual and sensory nature of these tasks. However, the aspect of managing transactions and payments shows moderate automation possibilities, similar to "Accepting and photographing payments for sold goods and issuing receipts" (0.152), given that digital systems can assist in automating parts of the payment process. The initial survey scores reflect the physical nature of the work, and while generative AI can enhance aspects like inventory tracking or suggest optimal wrapping techniques, it cannot replace the human elements involved in customer interaction and physical handling tasks. Therefore, an adjusted score of 0.175 balances the physical limitations and the potential for some AI assistance in transactional activities.

Moving fastest, 2023 → 2025

“Preparing ingredients and making sausages and similar products using chopping, mixing and shaping machines;”

Model capability on this task changed by +0.05 in two years — the gradient is not static, it is filling in.

U.S. occupations this maps to

The American O*NET/SOC roles that crosswalk to ISCO-08 7511, biggest by employment first, via the published (approximate, many-to-many) IBS O*NET-SOC ↔ ISCO-08 correspondence. These are the closest U.S. matches — not an asserted one-to-one identity.

• Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers
• Butchers and Meat Cutters
• Slaughterers and Meat Packers
• Food and Tobacco Roasting, Baking, and Drying Machine Operators and Tenders

In context

Part of the 7 - Craft and related trades workers major group. Return to the full gradient to see how the whole group sits.

Butchers, Fishmongers and Related Food Preparers sit at the 8th percentile of the global GenAI exposure gradient

• Across 427 international occupations scored by the ILO, Butchers, Fishmongers and Related Food Preparers rank in the 8th percentile for GenAI task exposure — overlap with what generative AI can attempt, not a projection of displacement. (ILO / Gmyrek et al. (2025) GenAI exposure gradient)
• About 0% of this occupation's tasks fall into an exposed gradient band. (ILO / Gmyrek et al. (2025))
• Mean task exposure fell by 0.01 between the 2023 and 2025 model-capability snapshots. (ILO / Gmyrek et al. (2025), 2023→2025)
• Its most-exposed task: "Selling meat or fish to customers, including wrapping, weighing and labelling products, and receiving payment.". (ILO / Gmyrek et al. (2025))

Source: Singulariki — "Butchers, Fishmongers and Related Food Preparers". https://singulariki.com/gradient/7511-butchers-fishmongers-and-related-food-preparers.html
Note: AI task overlap measures what today's AI can attempt, not automation, job loss, or a forecast.