That job description you're reading might not mention AI, but an employer will likely still expect you to know how to use it. A new snapshot of job listings from career platform Ladders showed that, while the number of AI roles listed on the site has tripled since 2021, the share of postings mentioning AI has decreased. It's an indication that more employers are viewing technology as an everyday skillratherthan as a differentiator, Marc Cenedella, founder and CEO of Ladders, told Business Insider.
Zoom in: The number of job listings in San Francisco declined 37% from February 2020 to October, according to new data from jobs site Indeed. Seattle had a 35% decline. Smaller markets, particularly those reliant on health care jobs, have remained more resilient. Zoom in: Small metro areas that saw gains had labor markets more weighted toward health care, and leisure and hospitality, says Allison Shrivastava, an economist at Indeed Hiring Lab.
We looked at the 40,000 job listings we'd gathered from Google's job search engine, over a period between December 2024 and February 2025, and zeroed in on the salaries that companies were offering to prospective employees.