game keeper
Game keepers manage the habitat and wild game population in a defined area.
game keeper game keepers manage the habitat and wild game population in a defined area. The role shows moderate AI exposure (0.50 on a 0-1 scale) — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. The most in-demand skills for the role include understand game species, wild game meat food safety requirements, animal welfare legislation, manage habitats to benefit game, manage game management plans.
Pay in the UK
UK: median £25,067 a year for Animal care services occupations n.e.c. (ONS ASHE 2025, full-time)
Middle half of full-time jobs: £22,826 to £27,865 a year
UK jobs are grouped differently; this is the closest UK occupation group (ONS SOC 2020 6129). ONS rates this estimate precise. 2025 provisional figures; ONS revises them a year later. Source: ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (Open Government Licence)
Pay in India (occupation group)
Average monthly earnings of salaried employees in the occupation group “Service and sales workers” in India, from the Government of India's Periodic Labour Force Survey (January–December 2025). It covers everyone in this group, not only game keeper, and it is not US pay converted to rupees.
Source: MoSPI (Government of India), Periodic Labour Force Survey Annual Report 2025, Table 51 — average wage/salary earnings of regular wage/salaried employees, NCO-2015 division 5. Official India data gives one average per occupation group: there are no official India figures for single careers, experience levels or cities. Read the report
Top skills
Knowledge you'll build
- Geography
- Mechanical
- Customer and Personal Service
- Law and Government
- Biology
- Sales and Marketing
- English Language
- Education and Training
What you'd actually do
- Steer vessels and operate navigational instruments.
- Remove catches from fishing equipment and measure them to ensure compliance with legal size.
- Direct fishing or hunting operations, and supervise crew members.
- Interpret weather and vessel conditions to determine appropriate responses.
- Travel on foot, by vehicle, or by equipment such as boats, snowmobiles, helicopters, snowshoes, or skis to reach hunting areas.
- Select, bait, and set traps, and lay poison along trails, according to species, size, habits, and environs of birds or animals and reasons for trapping them.
Tools & technology you'd use
Frequently asked questions
What does game keeper do?
Game keepers manage the habitat and wild game population in a defined area.
What skills does game keeper need?
The most in-demand skills for this role include understand game species, wild game meat food safety requirements, animal welfare legislation, manage habitats to benefit game, manage game management plans, control the production of game meat for human consumption. These are the skills O*NET identifies as most important for competent performance.
Will AI replace game keeper?
Our AI-durability model gives game keeper a score of 0.50 on a 0-1 scale (higher = more exposure). That places it at moderate AI exposure — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. Learning to work with AI tools rather than against them is the path forward.