AI jobs now pay more than double non-AI roles, $177k versus $80k typically, per new LinkedIn research on the AI talent divide. Head of AI, $236k median. Director of AI, $229k.
Women account for 26% of the hires into those roles. At the C-suite level, inside AI companies, across 27 countries, that number drops to 13%.
It gets worse. The same research, pulling ILO data, found female-dominated occupations are nearly twice as likely to be disrupted by generative AI as male-dominated ones. Clerical work. Customer relationship roles. Business support. The jobs that have quietly funded a middle-class life for millions of women for decades.
So here is the actual shape of it. The jobs most likely to be disrupted by AI skew female. The jobs being created by AI, the ones paying double, skew male. And the people deciding how AI gets deployed inside their companies are mostly not women either.
I ran a founders AI lab last year that turned out to be 98% men. Nobody built it that way on purpose. That is how these rooms always happen, one unexamined assumption at a time about who gets taken seriously. That is the whole reason Time Rich exists….
I hear the same line on almost every call. “I’ll get to AI once things calm down.” That reflex used to be fine. New data says it is currently the most expensive habit you have.
Nobody is going to hire you into the AI economy. You build your own corner of it, and you walk in already running it.
That is what we are getting into on the 27th. Hiring NxGen Leaders, live, free. The technical skill is becoming table stakes fast. What will not commoditise is the judgment about people, the taste to know who is actually good to build with. That was always yours. This just made it the highest-leverage skill you have.
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