The US economy added 56.9k jobs in September, according to Revelio Public Labor Statistics (RPLS), even as active job postings declined another 1.8%. Beneath that aggregate resilience, our latest AI Labor Market Tracker shows a continuously evolving labor market as adoption of GenAI tools expands.
Employment growth remains stable
Revelio Public Labor Statistics shows that the U.S. economy added 56.9k jobs in September. These gains were driven by significant job gains in the Public Administration and Health Care and Social Assistance sectors. Meanwhile, the Information and the Transportation sectors saw declines in employment. Employment continues to expand despite a labor market that remains in a low-hire, low-fire mode and employer demand being considerably cooler than during the post-pandemic hiring boom.
Active job postings in the US fell 1.8% from August to September. Leisure & Hospitality led the declines, falling 14.6% month-over-month. Overall, 11 of 16 industries tracked by RPLS showed declines this month, with Education & Health Services and Professional & Business Services also showing declines of over 2 percent. There were some industries showing rising demand, however, with active postings in Public Administration rising 4.0% and Transportation & Warehousing rising 1.3%.
AI adoption is slowing. Work is changing within occupations
The pace of new firm AI adoption continued to cool in August, with the number of newly AI-adopting firms per month down 17% from July, extending its decline from the spring peak.
Even as the pace of new adoption slows, the work inside jobs keeps changing. 90% of year-over-year changes in work activities now occur within occupations rather than through shifts in the occupational mix — up from 89% last month. This means that much of the evolution in work is taking place inside existing job categories, rather than through changes in the types of occupations people hold.
That internal shift looks different role by role. Our newly expanded activity explorer lets readers search occupations to see how the mix of tasks performed within that specific role has changed since 2022. Executive Assistants, for example, show rising activity in strategic program leadership and project coordination — even as their accounts payable and invoice processing work declines, a shift toward judgment and coordination and away from routine processing that shows up across many roles in the tracker. You can now search your own occupation in the full AI Labor Market Tracker.
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