How many live roles in the US involve AI?
12,253 of 28,668 live roles in the US involve AI. 42.7% · of live roles that involve AI · live specs · week ending 2 October 2026.
Across 28,668 live specs in the US from 175 employers, week ending 2 October 2026. Each role is read on whether it involves AI, whether AI sits at the centre of the work, and whether the role is accountable for what the model produces.
A cell under 30 live specs prints its counts and no share; under 150, its count and base print beside its share. Every share moves with sector mix, and this page names the market’s sector cells beside its figures.
How many US specifications involve AI
Involved: 12,253 of 28,668 live roles in the US involve AI, 42.7% of live roles that involve AI (live specs, week ending 2 October 2026).
Central: of those 12,253 roles that involve AI, 7,606 have AI at the centre of the work, 62.1% of roles that involve AI where AI sits at the centre of the work.
Accountable is one of the four tests. The US figures on the four tests are held until the live and frozen American counts reconcile; no US test figure prints.
Beside the three measures, as context and not as a measure, on the base of all live roles: 7,606 of 28,668 (26.5%) live roles in the US are AI-central.
Which sectors make up the US base
Sector mix: technology 8,455, financial services 8,327, professional services 3,650, advertising agencies 2,802, AI-native 2,270, media and entertainment 1,954, consumer brands 974. Sector cells with fewer than 10 employers in the US are held: 236 live specs sit in them. Every figure on this page is for the market as a whole, and its sector mix is named here beside it.
Sector cells with fewer than 10 employers in the US are held: 236 live specs sit in them.
Where AI lands by seniority in the US
Entry level: 575 of 2,737 (21.0%) live roles in the US involve AI; of those, 281 of 575 (48.9%) have AI at the centre of the work.
Director and above: 2,125 of 5,205 (40.8%) live roles in the US involve AI; of those, 1,304 of 2,125 (61.4%) have AI at the centre of the work.
Week ending 2 October 2026.
How US AI-central roles read on the four tests
Every AI-central role is then read on four tests. Accountable is one of them.
The US figures on the four tests are held until the live and frozen American counts reconcile; no US test figure prints.
The US figures on the four tests are held until the live and frozen American counts reconcile; no US test figure prints.
How this is measured
Live specs: roles open at the freeze, de-duplicated, and read the same way in every market. Each measure's share is on the measure before it, and a figure under a floor prints its counts.
Full methodIs this a net-new seat at the company, or a backfill?
Of 7,606 AI-central roles in the US: new (confirmed) 26.7%; backfill (confirmed) 19.3%; backfill (inferred) 54.0%, week ending 2 October 2026.