AI Share of Indeed Job Postings
Share of Indeed job postings that mention artificial-intelligence terms
What is the current AI Share of Indeed Job Postings reading?
According to Indeed Hiring Lab, AI terms appeared in 6.7% of postings on Indeed's US site at the end of August 2026. That is up from 3.4% in August 2025. The figure is a share of Indeed postings that mention AI, not a count of AI jobs or hires.
Measurement basis: Share of job postings on Indeed that mention artificial intelligence, from Indeed Hiring Lab's AI tracker. The denominator is Indeed's own postings rather than all U.S. job openings, and a posting is not a hire.
At the end of August 2026, 6.7% of job postings on Indeed's US site mentioned AI, the highest share since Indeed's series began in 2019.
Indeed Hiring Lab counts a job posting if its text includes any of a set of AI-related terms, such as machine learning, data science, artificial intelligence or generative AI. At the end of August 2026, 6.7% of postings on Indeed's US site did. A year earlier, at the end of August 2025, the share was 3.4%.
A mention is not an AI job. Hiring Lab found that about a quarter of AI-mentioning postings gave little sense of how AI would be used, and some mentions are about AI recruiting tools. A posting is also an advertisement, not a hire, and the base is Indeed's postings, not every U.S. job opening.
Because this is a share, it can go up when total postings shrink as well as when AI-mentioning postings grow. Hiring Lab reports those two counts separately; this page shows only the share.
Indeed publishes a daily series in which each day is a seven-day average. American Default Research shows the last day of each month, not a monthly average. Indeed revises past values when it refreshes the file, about once a month, so recent months can change. The share is not seasonally adjusted and tends to dip in spring, so this page compares each month with the same month a year earlier. Read it beside information-sector job openings, AI-attributed layoffs and business AI adoption, which measure different questions.
AI Share of Indeed Job Postings over time: what has changed?
Counties with the highest labor scores
These are labor scores from our County Distress Index, not county readings of AI Share of Indeed Job Postings.
Explore all 3,144 counties →| Period | Value | YoY Change |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 2026 | 6.7% | +3.3 pp |
| Jul 2026 | 6.4% | +3.2 pp |
| Jun 2026 | 6% | +2.9 pp |
| May 2026 | 5.8% | +2.9 pp |
| Apr 2026 | 5.5% | +2.7 pp |
| Mar 2026 | 5.4% | +2.6 pp |
| Feb 2026 | 5.1% | +2.3 pp |
| Jan 2026 | 4.8% | +2 pp |
| Dec 2025 | 4.4% | +1.7 pp |
| Nov 2025 | 4.3% | +1.7 pp |
| Oct 2025 | 4.1% | +1.6 pp |
| Sep 2025 | 3.7% | +1.3 pp |
Frequently Asked Questions
What share of job postings mention AI?
On Indeed's US site, 6.7% of postings mentioned an AI-related term at the end of August 2026. That is a share of Indeed postings, not of all U.S. job openings, and Indeed may revise it at its next refresh.
How has the share changed?
At the end of August 2026 the share was 6.7%, 3.3 percentage points higher than a year earlier. It is the highest share since the series began in 2019, in Indeed's current data.
Does this mean these are AI jobs?
No. A posting counts if it mentions any AI-related term anywhere in its text. Many mentions give little detail on how AI would be used, and a posting is an advertisement, not a hire. The share alone does not show whether AI is creating or cutting jobs.
Why do other sources report a different share?
Other producers use other definitions. The Stanford AI Index figure from Lightcast, for example, counts postings that require at least one AI skill across Lightcast's own database and is reported once a year. Indeed's tracker counts any AI mention on Indeed's US site.
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