Bookmaker
Also called betting clerk, head bookmaker, bookmaker clerk
Bookmakers (also often called 'bookies', or 'turf accountants') take bets on sports games and other events at agreed upon odds, they calculate odds and pay out winnings. They are responsible for the risk management.
What you'd do
Bookmakers, croupiers and related gaming workers · ILO- Determining risks to decide odds and to hedge or refuse bets
- Preparing and issuing lists of approximate odds
- Distributing cards, rolling dice or spinning a roulette wheel
- Explaining and interpreting operating rules of a gambling establishment
- Announcing winning numbers, paying winners and collecting payments from losers
- Indoors
- A mix of sitting and standing
- Constant contact with people, including the public
- Some freedom to decide
- Usually under 40 hours a week
- Deadlines now and then
- Very repetitive tasks
Will there be jobs?
Average prospectsA typical number of jobs will need filling by 2035.
Solid: measured. Dashed: forecast.
What does it pay?
About averagePay depends a lot on the country: from about €1,000 a month (Bulgaria) to €5,000 (Luxembourg), before tax.
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Among clerical support workers in the EU, women earn 9% less per hour than men. Clerical support workers · Eurostat
What do I need to study?
Upper secondary or vocationalUpper secondary or vocational training is the usual route.
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Will AI change it?
ModeratelyAI could take on part of some tasks, but none fully.
Average task score 0.45 on a scale from 0 (AI can't do it) to 1 (AI could do it fully).
See the score for each of the 5 tasks
Based on what AI could technically do when assessed in 2025. It is not a forecast for a future year, and not a forecast of job losses. Scores for bookmakers, croupiers and related gaming workers. Source: ILO (2025), adapted (credits).