The numbers behind
every claim we make
US employment across twelve industries, updated monthly from official BLS series. Every figure on this page is citable, sourced, and free to reproduce with attribution.
Data as of Sep 2026 employment report · retrieved 2026-10-17 · BLS CES & JOLTS via FRED
Employment by industry
Seasonally adjusted levels, thousands of jobs, sorted worst-first by year-over-year change. JOLTS openings & separations rates are the latest available month, not seasonally adjusted. Consulting and Legal JOLTS rates use the Professional and Business Services aggregate — JOLTS publishes no finer split. JOLTS publishes no separate series for Administrative & Support (NAICS 56), so its rate cells show —.
| Industry | Employment | YoY change | Openings rate | Layoffs rate | BLS series ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Media & Journalism Sep 2026 | 880,400 | -2.61% | 4.4% | 0.9% | CES5051100001 |
| Finance Sep 2026 | 9,082,000 | -1.13% | 4.8% | 0.8% | USFIRE |
| Software Development Sep 2026 | 2,355,400 | -1.06% | 4.4% | 0.9% | CES6054150001 |
| Creative Sep 2026 | 2,659,100 | -0.76% | 3.5% | 4.2% | broad proxy · CES7071000001 |
| Education Sep 2026 | 4,046,400 | +0.18% | 3.2% | 1.6% | CES6561000001 |
| Retail & E-commerce Sep 2026 | 15,479,900 | +0.43% | 3.0% | 1.2% | USTRADE |
| Manufacturing Sep 2026 | 12,652,000 | +0.57% | 4.0% | 0.8% | MANEMP |
| Administrative & Support Sep 2026 | 9,018,600 | +0.60% | — | — | CES6056000001 |
| Logistics Sep 2026 | 6,608,700 | +0.81% | 4.7% | 1.1% | CES4300000001 |
| Consulting Sep 2026 | 1,888,100 | +0.88% | 4.8% | 1.6% | CES6054160001 |
| Healthcare Sep 2026 | 18,553,600 | +1.41% | 5.0% | 0.9% | CES6562000101 |
| Legal Sep 2026 | 1,249,000 | +1.45% | 4.8% | 1.6% | CES6054110001 |
Sources: BLS Current Employment Statistics (CES) and JOLTS, retrieved via FRED on 2026-10-17. Shared JOLTS series: software & media use the information sector; consulting & legal use professional & business services. Creative uses the broad arts, entertainment & recreation series as a proxy — treat its rates as seasonal and structural, not AI-specific. Every row's series ID is in the table and the CSV export.
Cite this page
Revolutio Research (2026). AI Disruption Statistics: Employment by Industry. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23437247
Figures update when the BLS monthly employment report lands; the retrieval date above is the exact vintage cited. Journalists and researchers are welcome to reproduce the table with attribution and a link.
Where the deeper numbers live
- AI-Attributed Layoffs Tracker — the company-level, fully sourced complement to this page: every workforce reduction a company itself tied to AI, with the memo, filing, or call that said it.
- Industry trackers — per-industry charts, series IDs, and monthly updates for all twelve sectors.
- Quarterly reports — full disruption assessments across hiring, capital, tooling, and pricing layers.
- Signals — dated, graded, confidence-scored disruption events feeding the trackers.
- Dataset mirrors — the same monthly CSV on GitHub, Hugging Face, Kaggle, and Zenodo (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23437247, citable archive).