Study finds 13 percent drop in entry-level jobs exposed to AI
A Stanford study examined 25 million US payroll records from ADP. It found employment for 22 to 25-year-olds in AI-exposed occupations fell 13 percent since late 2022. Entry-level software engineering roles saw an even steeper drop of nearly 20 percent for this age group. Older workers in the same fields gained 6 to 12 percent in employment over the same period.
Entry-level roles once absorbed young graduates with degrees and basic transferable skills into routine tasks like data entry or simple analysis. AI now performs those codified jobs more cheaply, slashing youth hires while senior staff layer experience on top for gains. Payroll records confirm what job sites hide: the graduate hiring pool in affected fields has truly shrunk, raising the bar for AI proficiency signals on CVs and LinkedIn.
Analysis
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