Pasta maker
Also called pasta producer, pasta goods maker, pasta products maker
Pasta makers prepare fresh pasta, fillings, and other types of pasta following specific recipes and processes.
What you'd do
Bakers, pastry-cooks and confectionery makers · ILO- Making bread, cakes, biscuits, pastries, pies and other flour products
- Making handmade confectionery from mixtures of sugar, chocolate and other ingredients using hand tools and some machines
- Combining measured ingredients in bowls of mixing, blending or cooking machinery
- Checking the quality of raw materials to ensure that standards and specifications are met
- Applying glazes, icings or other toppings to baked goods, using spatulas or brushes
- Checking the cleanliness of equipment and operation of premises before production runs to ensure compliance with occupational health and safety regulations
- Monitoring oven temperatures and product appearance to determine baking times
- Coordinating the forming, loading, baking, unloading, de-panning and cooling of batches of bread, rolls, pastry and confectionary products
- Indoors
- On your feet most of the day
- Constant contact with people
- Good freedom to decide
- Often more than 40 hours a week
- Deadlines most weeks
- Some repetitive tasks
Will there be jobs?
Yes, good prospects13 EU countries are short of bakers, pastry-cooks and confectionery makers now, but fewer 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 0.17 on a scale from 0 (AI can't do it) to 1 (AI could do it fully).
See the score for each of the 8 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 bakers, pastry-cooks and confectionery makers. Source: ILO (2025), adapted (credits).