PwC's Global AI Jobs Barometer: AI Skills Now Command a 62% Wage Premium
PwC's 2026 AI Jobs Barometer finds AI has split the global labor market into two tracks, with AI-skilled roles growing 69% since 2019 and commanding a 62% wage premium.
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PwC's 2026 AI Jobs Barometer finds AI has split the global labor market into two tracks, with AI-skilled roles growing 69% since 2019 and commanding a 62% wage premium.
AI isn't firing workers who have jobs—it's eliminating the positions they would have been hired into, with Goldman Sachs tracking 16,000 net U.S. job losses per month. Gen Z, concentrated in the white-collar roles that automate most easily, bears the heaviest cost.
Entry-level job postings fell 15% year-over-year as AI automates junior roles, hitting Gen Z hardest by collapsing the career ladder that new graduates depend on to build skills.
White-collar knowledge workers now carry the highest AI displacement risk in the U.S. economy — and women represent 86% of the most exposed occupations, per a Washington Post analysis.