Curing room worker
Also called tobacco curer, tobacco dryer, tobacco drier
Curing room workers assist in the blending, aging, and fermenting of tobacco strips and stems for the production of cigars, chewing tobacco and snuff.
What you'd do
Tobacco preparers and tobacco products makers · ILO- Grading cured tobacco leaves by type, quality and locality where grown
- Mixing tobacco leaves according to formula to obtain a blend of distinct flavour
- Tending vacuum container which moistens tobacco for further processing
- Removing midribs and stalks from tobacco leaves and shredding tobacco
- Making cigars, cigarettes, snuff and other tobacco products by hand or with simple machines
- Indoors
- On your feet most of the day
- Lots of contact with people
- Some freedom to decide
- Usually 40 hours a week
- Deadlines most weeks
- Some repetitive tasks
Will there be jobs?
Limited prospectsFewer jobs than in most work will need filling by 2035.
Solid: measured. Dashed: forecast.
What does it pay?
Below averagePay depends a lot on the country: from about €1,000 a month (Bulgaria) to €4,800 (Denmark), before tax.
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Among craft and related trades workers in the EU, women earn 26% less per hour than men. Craft and related trades workers · Eurostat
What do I need to study?
Upper secondary or vocationalUpper secondary or vocational training in food processing is the usual route.
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Will AI change it?
Very littleAI could help with only small parts of the tasks.
Average task score 0.14 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 tobacco preparers and tobacco products makers. Source: ILO (2025), adapted (credits).