Last checked 3 November 2026

Data as at 3 November 2026

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What AI is doing to your job, measured, not guessed.

Every number on this page carries its source and year. The Australian figures come first, then the strongest global evidence. Read the article, look at the picture, then measure yourself.

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Exposure · Australia79%79% of Australia's workforce is in occupations with low automation exposure to generative AI.Source · Jobs and Skills Australia, Our Gen AI Transition: Implications for Work and Skills, Final Overarching Report, 14 August 2025Exposure · Australia4%4% of the workforce sits in high automation exposure occupations, concentrated in clerical and administrative roles.Source · Jobs and Skills Australia, Our Gen AI Transition: Implications for Work and Skills, Final Overarching Report, 14 August 2025Augmentation · Australia31%31% of the workforce has high augmentation exposure, concentrated in professional and other higher-skilled knowledge occupations.Source · Jobs and Skills Australia, Our Gen AI Transition: Implications for Work and Skills, Final Overarching Report, 14 August 2025Pay62%The average wage premium for workers with AI skills is 62%, up from 57% the year before.Source · PwC, Global AI Jobs Barometer, 2026PwC's 2025 edition reported 56%, up from 25%; the 2026 edition restates the 2025 figure as 57%.Skills2.2xRequired skills are changing more than twice as fast (2.2x) in the most AI-exposed jobs as in the least exposed, up from 66% faster the year before.Source · PwC, Global AI Jobs Barometer, 2026Skills39%39% of workers' core skills are expected to change by 2030.Source · World Economic Forum, Future of Jobs Report, Jan 2025Entry level19% belowEmployment of 22 to 25 year olds in the most AI-exposed US occupations was 19% below trend by June 2026.Source · Stanford Digital Economy Lab, Canaries in the Coal Mine, Aug 2026 updateProductivity34%The least experienced workers using an AI assistant gained 34% in productivity, against 14% on average.Source · Brynjolfsson, Li and Raymond, Generative AI at Work, NBER 2023, QJE 2025Degrees66→59%The share of AI-augmented jobs requiring a formal degree fell from 66% to 59% between 2019 and 2024 (PwC, 2025 Global AI Jobs Barometer; the 2026 edition does not update this measure).Source · PwC, Global AI Jobs Barometer, 2025Automation · Australia13%Generative AI could automate about 13% of the tasks Australians do at work.Source · Jobs and Skills Australia, Our Gen AI Transition: Implications for Work and Skills, Final Overarching Report, 14 August 2025Augmentation · Australia55%Generative AI could augment about 55% of the tasks Australians do at work.Source · Jobs and Skills Australia, Our Gen AI Transition: Implications for Work and Skills, Final Overarching Report, 14 August 2025

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Jobs and Skills Australia's modelling assumes generative AI automates about 13% of work tasks and augments about 55% (Our Gen AI Transition, 2025).

Will AI take my job? What the Australian numbers actually say.

Yes, on average. The average wage premium for workers with AI skills is 62%, up from 57% the year before (PwC, Global AI Jobs Barometer, 2026).

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In the US, employment of 22 to 25 year olds in the most AI-exposed jobs was 19% below trend by June 2026 (Stanford Digital Economy Lab).

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