How much US wage value is tied to skills AI can already perform?
11.7%
Share of US wage value, about $1.2 trillion, tied to skills current AI systems could technically perform.
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/us-wage-value-ai-can-perform. Primary source: MIT and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Project Iceberg (October 2025), https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.25137
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