Job market · Before & after AI
How AI changed hiring for every kind of job
We tracked 12 career fields from 2015 to 2025. Here's the plain-English version of what happened when ChatGPT landed in 2022 — who got hired more, who got hired less, and why it matters for you.
Illustrative data
Careers tracked
12
From 2015 to 2025, across tech, creative, service and trades
Fields where hiring grew
5
Biggest winner: Data & AI / ML · +118% since 2022
Fields where hiring shrank
7
Hardest hit: Data Entry & Admin · -58% since 2022
Who won and who lost
Every field, ranked by how much hiring moved after 2022. Bars run left for decline and right for growth. Tap any field to load it in the comparison below.
How hiring changed over time
Higher means more openings than the same field had in 2015. The shaded band is the AI era. Start with the biggest movers, or switch to all twelve.
Pick a field, see the before & after
Choose any career to see exactly how hiring changed — in plain numbers, not jargon.
Change
+118%
Before AI → After AI
2.1× more
What happened
Explosive demand — AI itself created a gold rush for ML engineers, data scientists and prompt/LLM specialists.
What it means for you
Data & AI / ML is hiring more — a safer bet for your next move.
Figures are illustrative, hand-modeled from widely reported directional trends for demo purposes — not an authoritative data source.