27 countries · 20 tasks
What does a task cost, done by a person or an AI agent?
Official Eurostat wages on one side, public AI prices on the other. Estimates are labelled as estimates.
Tasks
EU average per task: a person · an AI agent with a human check.
- Reply to a customer support email€2.11 · €0.29
- Answer a customer chat€1.07 · €0.13
- Enter a supplier invoice€1.32 · €0.15
- Check an expense claim€1.06 · €0.15
- Reconcile 50 bank lines€7.92 · €1.13
- Triage 20 shared-inbox emails€2.64 · €0.31
- Write minutes for a 30-minute meeting€6.60 · €1.10
- Clean a 200-row contact list€7.92 · €1.20
- Research one B2B lead€6.57 · €1.15
- Log a 15-minute sales call€3.28 · €0.36
- Screen one CV€1.97 · €0.34
- Draft a social media post€4.92 · €0.67
- Write a help-centre article€13.13 · €2.01
- Write a product description€8.13 · €1.24
- Translate one page€20.33 · €4.09
- Write a job ad€12.20 · €2.06
- Summarise a 10-page contract€24.40 · €4.12
- Triage a bug report€6.10 · €1.28
- Review a small pull request€12.20 · €2.11
- Write a SQL report query€12.20 · €2.08
Countries
Full hourly labour cost, 2025.
- Austria€46.30/h
- Belgium€48.20/h
- Bulgaria€12.00/h
- Croatia€18.40/h
- Cyprus€21.70/h
- Czechia€19.80/h
- Denmark€51.70/h
- Estonia€21.10/h
- Finland€39.40/h
- France€44.30/h
- Germany€45.00/h
- Greece€18.20/h
- Hungary€15.20/h
- Ireland€44.20/h
- Italy€32.00/h
- Latvia€16.30/h
- Lithuania€17.80/h
- Luxembourg€56.80/h
- Malta€19.00/h
- Netherlands€47.90/h
- Poland€19.10/h
- Portugal€19.40/h
- Romania€13.60/h
- Slovakia€19.80/h
- Slovenia€29.70/h
- Spain€26.40/h
- Sweden€43.10/h
How we count
Person: minutes per task (estimate) × Eurostat hourly wage. Agent: tokens (estimate) × list price, plus a short human check.
Method and sources →