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AI wage premium

The pay difference between workers with AI skills and workers in the same occupation without them, estimated from job posting text and salary data.

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Lightcast prices the AI wage premium at less than half of PwC's 62%

AI skills appear in 2.5% of US job postings, roughly a million of them, and the two most-cited estimates of what they add to pay within the same occupation differ by more than two to one, with only one of them expressed in dollars.

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Reality

Evidence40
Adoption55
Hype gap+28
Incentives62
Confidence45