Over the past year, the D.C. metro area has outpaced most of the nation in new job creation tied to artificial intelligence, a trend likely to continue as demand for AI-based products and services climbs.
That’s according to data compiled by UMD-LinkUp AI Maps — a joint effort from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business and LinkUp, a global labor market tracking firm — as part of an initiative that monitors AI job creation across the country.
Per the findings, D.C. itself ranks ahead of all 50 states when it comes to the ratio of AI-related job postings to the total number of all new job postings over the past 12 months. From March 2023 to March 2024, 1.77% of all job postings in D.C. were tied directly to roles involving AI, the research found, compared with the 1.55% figure for No. 2 Washington state and 1.46% for Virginia. California at 1.21% and Massachusetts at 1.08% rounded out the top five.
When looking at the D.C., Maryland and Virginia as a whole, the region accounted for 11.7% of the nation’s 14,023 new AI job postings in March, second only to California, which accounted for 20.5%,
