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# California's share of US AI job postings fell from 26.6% in 2012 to 17.2% in 2025
- URL: https://aiadoption.org/data/us-ai-job-postings-state-share-trend/
- Published: 2026-10-19T16:26:19.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-21T06:02:30.000Z
- Description: California had 17.2% of US AI job postings in 2025, down from a peak of 26.6% in 2012 but up from 15.7% in 2024. Texas had 8.1% and New York 6.6%.
- Author: Manu
- Tags: Data, AI Jobs, AI in the US, #chart, #ai-index-2026, #hub-jobs, #country-us

17.2%

▼ 9.4 pts since the 2012 peak

California's share of US AI job postings, 2025

20102025

## What the chart shows

California’s share of all US AI job postings peaked at 26.6% in 2012 and fell to 15.3% by 2023\. It rose to 15.7% in 2024 and 17.2% in 2025, still well above any other state.

Texas’s share has roughly tripled since 2010, to 8.1% in 2025, after peaking at 8.9% in 2021\. New York’s share rose to 6.6% from 5.8% in 2024, and Washington state’s fell to 3.9% from 4.7%.

## Key numbers

| Measure                 | Value  |
| ----------------------- | ------ |
| California, 2012 (peak) | 26.63% |
| California, 2024        | 15.70% |
| California, 2025        | 17.18% |
| Texas, 2025             | 8.10%  |
| New York, 2025          | 6.64%  |
| Washington state, 2025  | 3.93%  |

## How to read it

- Each line is a state’s share of all US AI job postings in that year.
- The AI Index text gives California’s 2025 share as 17.9%; the data file shows 17.18%, which matches the [state counts](https://aiadoption.org/data/us-ai-job-postings-by-state/), so we use it.
- Washington here is the state, not Washington, DC.

**Source:** [Lightcast](https://aiadoption.org/sources/#lightcast), 2025, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 4.4.12: *Percentage of US AI job postings 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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