# Price of Work EU

> What common office tasks cost done by a person or by an AI agent, in each of the 27 EU countries. Person cost = estimated minutes x Eurostat hourly wage (SES 2022, by occupation) or hourly labour cost (lc_lci_lev 2025). Agent cost = estimated tokens x public API list price (read 2026-10-28) converted at the ECB rate of 2026-10-27, plus an estimated human check. Minutes and tokens are estimates, labelled as such.

## Data
- [Full dataset, JSON](https://priceofwork.com/data/price-of-work.json): all inputs, sources and 540 task x country results
- [Full dataset, CSV](https://priceofwork.com/data/price-of-work.csv)
- [Method and sources](https://priceofwork.com/methodology/)
- [Data and MCP server](https://priceofwork.com/data/)

## Tasks
- [Reply to a customer support email](https://priceofwork.com/tasks/support-ticket-reply/): Read a customer email, check the order, write a reply.
- [Answer a customer chat](https://priceofwork.com/tasks/live-chat-answer/): Answer one routine customer chat about delivery, stock or returns.
- [Enter a supplier invoice](https://priceofwork.com/tasks/invoice-entry/): Key one supplier invoice into accounting: supplier, lines, VAT, due date.
- [Check an expense claim](https://priceofwork.com/tasks/expense-check/): Check one expense claim and receipt against the company policy.
- [Reconcile 50 bank lines](https://priceofwork.com/tasks/bank-reconciliation/): Match 50 bank statement lines to ledger entries and flag the rest.
- [Triage 20 shared-inbox emails](https://priceofwork.com/tasks/email-triage/): Sort, tag and route 20 emails in a shared inbox.
- [Write minutes for a 30-minute meeting](https://priceofwork.com/tasks/meeting-minutes/): Turn a 30-minute meeting transcript into minutes with actions.
- [Clean a 200-row contact list](https://priceofwork.com/tasks/contact-list-cleanup/): De-duplicate and normalise a 200-row contact list.
- [Research one B2B lead](https://priceofwork.com/tasks/lead-research/): Research one company and write a short sales profile.
- [Log a 15-minute sales call](https://priceofwork.com/tasks/call-summary/): Summarise a 15-minute sales call into the CRM with next steps.
- [Screen one CV](https://priceofwork.com/tasks/cv-screening/): Screen one CV against a job ad and write a short verdict.
- [Draft a social media post](https://priceofwork.com/tasks/social-post/): Draft one company social post from a brief.
- [Write a help-centre article](https://priceofwork.com/tasks/help-article/): Write a help-centre article from a solved ticket.
- [Write a product description](https://priceofwork.com/tasks/product-description/): Write one e-commerce product description from a spec sheet.
- [Translate one page](https://priceofwork.com/tasks/translate-page/): Translate one page of about 300 words between two EU languages.
- [Write a job ad](https://priceofwork.com/tasks/job-ad/): Write a job ad from a hiring manager brief.
- [Summarise a 10-page contract](https://priceofwork.com/tasks/contract-summary/): Summarise the key terms and risks of a 10-page contract.
- [Triage a bug report](https://priceofwork.com/tasks/bug-triage/): Reproduce, label and route one incoming bug report.
- [Review a small pull request](https://priceofwork.com/tasks/code-review/): Review a pull request of about 200 changed lines.
- [Write a SQL report query](https://priceofwork.com/tasks/sql-report/): Write and check a SQL query for a weekly report.

## Countries
- [Austria](https://priceofwork.com/countries/austria/)
- [Belgium](https://priceofwork.com/countries/belgium/)
- [Bulgaria](https://priceofwork.com/countries/bulgaria/)
- [Croatia](https://priceofwork.com/countries/croatia/)
- [Cyprus](https://priceofwork.com/countries/cyprus/)
- [Czechia](https://priceofwork.com/countries/czechia/)
- [Denmark](https://priceofwork.com/countries/denmark/)
- [Estonia](https://priceofwork.com/countries/estonia/)
- [Finland](https://priceofwork.com/countries/finland/)
- [France](https://priceofwork.com/countries/france/)
- [Germany](https://priceofwork.com/countries/germany/)
- [Greece](https://priceofwork.com/countries/greece/)
- [Hungary](https://priceofwork.com/countries/hungary/)
- [Ireland](https://priceofwork.com/countries/ireland/)
- [Italy](https://priceofwork.com/countries/italy/)
- [Latvia](https://priceofwork.com/countries/latvia/)
- [Lithuania](https://priceofwork.com/countries/lithuania/)
- [Luxembourg](https://priceofwork.com/countries/luxembourg/)
- [Malta](https://priceofwork.com/countries/malta/)
- [Netherlands](https://priceofwork.com/countries/netherlands/)
- [Poland](https://priceofwork.com/countries/poland/)
- [Portugal](https://priceofwork.com/countries/portugal/)
- [Romania](https://priceofwork.com/countries/romania/)
- [Slovakia](https://priceofwork.com/countries/slovakia/)
- [Slovenia](https://priceofwork.com/countries/slovenia/)
- [Spain](https://priceofwork.com/countries/spain/)
- [Sweden](https://priceofwork.com/countries/sweden/)

## Optional
- [Countries index](https://priceofwork.com/countries/)
- [Tasks index](https://priceofwork.com/tasks/)