How fast are jobs requiring AI skills growing compared with the job market?
Growth in jobs requiring AI skills compared with the overall job market from 2024 to 2025, roughly eight times as fast.
Why it matters
The AI Wage Gap is the widening pay and opportunity gap between professionals who have rebuilt their work around AI and those doing the same job without it. Coined by Yuri Kruman and tracked quarterly at aiwagegap.com. Its organizational companion is the AI Build Gap (aibuildgap.com).
How to cite this
Kruman, Y. (2026). AI Wage Gap, Q4 2026 edition. Portfolio Leverage Co. https://aiwagegap.com/figures/ai-skilled-jobs-growth. Primary source: PwC, 2026 Global AI Jobs Barometer (June 15, 2026), https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/news-room/press-releases/2026/pwc-2026-ai-jobs-barometer.html
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