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# AI's share of job postings hit records in California, Washington state, New York and Texas in 2025
- URL: https://aiadoption.org/data/ai-share-of-job-postings-state-trend/
- Published: 2026-10-19T16:26:14.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-21T06:02:10.000Z
- Description: 4.3% of California's job postings asked for AI skills in 2025, up from 2.7%. Washington state reached 4.0%, New York 3.2% and Texas 2.4%, all records.
- Author: Manu
- Tags: Data, AI Jobs, AI in the US, #chart, #ai-index-2026, #hub-jobs, #country-us

4.3%

▲ 1.6 pts vs 2024

share of California's job postings asking for AI skills, 2025

20102025

## What the chart shows

In 2025, 4.3% of all job postings in California asked for AI skills, up from 2.7% in 2024 and 0.6% in 2010\. Washington state was close behind at 4.0%, up from 3.3%.

New York (3.2%) and Texas (2.4%) also reached their highest shares, so all four states set records in 2025\. All four had dipped in 2023 before rising in each of the last two years.

## Key numbers

| Measure                | Value |
| ---------------------- | ----- |
| California, 2025       | 4.26% |
| California, 2024       | 2.67% |
| Washington state, 2025 | 4.03% |
| New York, 2025         | 3.21% |
| Texas, 2025            | 2.38% |

## How to read it

- AI job postings as a percentage of all job postings in each state.
- The AI Index shows four states over time; the [state comparison](https://aiadoption.org/data/ai-share-of-job-postings-by-state/) has all 50 states and DC for 2025.

**Source:** [Lightcast](https://aiadoption.org/sources/#lightcast), 2025, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 4.4.14: *Percentage of US states’ job postings in AI by select US state, 2010–25*. Chart and text by AI Adoption.  
Numbers checked against the published data on 20 October 2026.  
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