17.2%
California's share of US AI job postings in 2025: 170,881 of 994,372
What the chart shows
Lightcast counted 994,372 AI job postings across the 50 US states and Washington, DC in 2025. California had 170,881 of them, or 17.2%, more than twice the 80,547 in Texas. New York was third with 66,029.
Together the three states accounted for 31.9% of US AI job postings. Illinois (44,883) and Virginia (41,950) came next, followed by Massachusetts, Florida and Washington state with about 39,000 each. Wyoming had the fewest, 2,627.
Key numbers
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| California | 170,881 |
| Texas | 80,547 |
| New York | 66,029 |
| Illinois | 44,883 |
| Wyoming | 2,627 |
| All states and DC | 994,372 |
How to read it
- Counts of 2025 job postings asking for at least one AI skill, by the state of the job. The US total is the sum of the 50 states and DC.
- The AI Index also charts these counts as shares of the US total; that chart repeats this data, so we show the shares here instead of publishing it separately.
- The chart opens on the top 15 states; ‘All’ shows every state and DC.
Source: Lightcast, 2025, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 4.4.10: Number of AI job postings in the United States by state, 2025. Chart and text by AI Adoption.
Numbers checked against the published data on 20 October 2026.
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Numbers checked against the published data on 20 October 2026.
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