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Entry-level tech jobs in NYC are being cut in half by the AI boom

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Entry-level tech jobs in NYC are being cut in half by the AI boom

At first glance, the tech scene in New York City appears to be thriving: OpenAI and Anthropic have been putting down roots in the city, while stalwarts of the tech industry like Google now have over 14,000 employees based in New York. Between 2008 and 2023, tech employment in the city has increased by 160%, only outdone by the explosive growth of the tech industry in San Francisco.

But overall job growth in the city’s tech industry has stagnated in recent years, and there is one area in particular where tech employment has taken a sharp dip: Entry-level tech jobs in New York have taken a significant hit in the years since ChatGPT’s public release ushered in the AI boom. 

A new report from the Center for an Urban Future (CUF), a New York-based think tank, found that as of 2022, the number of entry-level job postings in the tech industry has dropped by 49%—a bigger decline than in any other sector, even as generative AI has seemingly derailed entry-level hiring across sectors. There continues to be a steady supply of college graduates with computer science degrees, but there aren’t nearly enough entry-level positions for them to fill. 

“The core issue is that employers face an individual incentive to hire workers who already have two or three years of experience,” Eli Dvorkin, editorial and policy director at CUF and one of the authors of the report, said in a recent interview with Searchlight .



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