Manufacturers are asking for artificial intelligence skills in their job ads more often than the rest of the economy, and they are advertising higher pay when they do, according to a Federal Reserve Board staff analysis of online job postings.
Starting October 1, Connecticut employers must list the wage or wage range and a general description of benefits in public and internal job postings, under Public Act 26-12. The rule also reaches remote roles that report into the state.
Indeed's September survey of 123 labor-market experts expects its job postings index to rise just 0.13% through the end of 2026, with optimists and pessimists far apart.
Indeed’s job postings index rose 0.7% from a year earlier, its first positive annual reading in almost four years, but new postings remain about 6% below the pre-pandemic baseline.
A posting is not an opening, and an opening is not a hire. July JOLTS showed 7.3 million openings and 5.1 million hires, and a new 41-country AI study shows how to use posting data without confusing the three.
A Stanford working paper uses 1.25 billion job postings to identify which firms adopted generative AI. At adopters' foreign affiliates, the junior share of staff fell 1.9 points, mainly because senior hiring grew. Here is what adoption data add, and where they fall short.
