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Numbers you can cite about the New York AI economy
Current figures on AI hiring, pay, and skills in New York, each with a sentence you can quote as written. Free data to download, charts to embed, and the methods, corrections, and disclosures you need to check us before you do.
Figures as of November 14, 2026 · recomputed daily
The current figures
Each figure comes with a sentence written to be quoted, and a link to the page it lives on. They describe the New York AI companies we track, which is a venture-backed sample and not the whole market; please keep that qualifier when you use them.
1,487
open roles at 47 New York AI companies
New York’s AI companies had 1,487 open roles across 47 companies, 782 of them based in the city.
Source: AI in NYC, NYC AI Hiring Index, November 14, 2026
−1.1%
change in open roles over 30 days, like-for-like
Across the 47 companies tracked at both dates, open roles went from 1,503 to 1,487 in 30 days (−1.1%). Roles based in New York changed by +0, and roles elsewhere by −16.
Source: AI in NYC, NYC AI Hiring Index, November 14, 2026
501 / 435
go-to-market roles against engineering roles
New York AI companies had 501 go-to-market roles open against 435 in engineering.
Source: AI in NYC, NYC AI Hiring Index, November 14, 2026
2.8 to 1
staff and principal openings for every entry-level one
There were 163 staff and principal openings against 59 entry-level ones, a ratio of 2.8 to 1.
Source: AI in NYC, NYC AI Hiring Index, November 14, 2026
$215,000
median posted base salary, New York AI engineering roles
The median posted base salary for engineering roles at New York AI companies was $215,000 (middle half: $187,500 to $252,500), from 154 distinct posted ranges.
Source: AI in NYC, NYC AI Hiring Index, November 14, 2026
91%
of New York postings carry a salary range
91% of the 782 New York-based postings carried a posted salary range, as the city’s pay transparency law requires.
Source: AI in NYC, NYC AI Hiring Index, November 14, 2026
23 / 12
companies naming Anthropic against OpenAI in job posts, of 47
Of 47 New York AI companies, 23 named Anthropic in an open role and 12 named OpenAI; 6 named Google Gemini.
Source: AI in NYC, Methodology: tools, skills, and concepts, November 14, 2026
38 of 47
companies hiring for AI agents
38 of 47 New York AI companies named AI agents in an open role, 29 named evals, and 14 named RAG, against 9 that named fine-tuning.
Source: AI in NYC, Methodology: tools, skills, and concepts, November 14, 2026
49%
of newly posted roles came down within 28 days
Of 184 roles first posted between October 11, 2026 and October 17, 2026, 49% had come down within 28 days; 90 were still open. A posting coming down covers filled, cancelled, and reposted roles.
Source: AI in NYC, Methodology: how fast roles come down, November 14, 2026
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Download the data
Four files, free, as CSV. They update whenever the site does, which is daily. The published series are aggregate; for a cut by company or sector, ask us. Each term in the skills file is explained, with its history, in the AI skills glossary.
NYC AI Hiring Index, daily
One row per day since August 13, 2026: companies tracked, open roles (total, New York, remote), roles opened and closed, and the mix by function and by level.
date, companies_tracked, open_roles, open_roles_nyc, open_roles_remote, roles_opened, roles_closed, fn_*, level_*
Download hiring-index.csvPosted pay, daily
Posted base salary percentiles for New York roles, by function and by seniority, one row per group per day since August 17, 2026. Groups with fewer than eight posted ranges are omitted.
date, cut, group, posted_ranges, p25_usd, median_usd, p75_usd
Download pay.csvTools, skills, and job titles, latest
Every tool, concept, and tracked job title named in open roles today: how many companies name it, how many postings, and the posted pay on New York roles naming it where at least eight ranges exist.
date, term, kind, category, companies_naming, companies_tracked, postings, postings_nyc, pay_*
Download skills.csvThe NYC AI 100, 2026 edition
The annual list of New York-headquartered AI companies: tier, sector, the latest public size figure and the date of that figure.
edition, name, tier, tier_label, sector, size, size_as_of, metro_hq, founded, ai_powered_not_ai_native
Download nyc-ai-100.csvCharts you can embed
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The AI skills New York employers ask for
Image: aiinnyc.org/charts/top-skills.png
<a href="https://aiinnyc.org/press"><img src="https://aiinnyc.org/charts/top-skills.png" alt="Bar chart of the AI skills most often named in New York AI job postings, by number of companies" width="1200" height="675" style="max-width:100%;height:auto"></a> <p>Source: <a href="https://aiinnyc.org/press">AI in NYC press and data room</a></p>
Which model providers NYC AI companies hire for
Image: aiinnyc.org/charts/model-providers.png
<a href="https://aiinnyc.org/press"><img src="https://aiinnyc.org/charts/model-providers.png" alt="Bar chart of AI model providers named in New York AI job postings, by number of companies" width="1200" height="675" style="max-width:100%;height:auto"></a> <p>Source: <a href="https://aiinnyc.org/press">AI in NYC press and data room</a></p>
What New York AI companies post as pay
Image: aiinnyc.org/charts/pay-by-function.png
<a href="https://aiinnyc.org/hiring-index"><img src="https://aiinnyc.org/charts/pay-by-function.png" alt="Bar chart of median posted base salary by function at New York AI companies" width="1200" height="675" style="max-width:100%;height:auto"></a> <p>Source: <a href="https://aiinnyc.org/hiring-index">AI in NYC, NYC AI Hiring Index</a></p>
Open roles at New York AI companies
Image: aiinnyc.org/charts/open-roles.png
<a href="https://aiinnyc.org/hiring-index"><img src="https://aiinnyc.org/charts/open-roles.png" alt="Line chart of daily open roles at New York AI companies" width="1200" height="675" style="max-width:100%;height:auto"></a> <p>Source: <a href="https://aiinnyc.org/hiring-index">AI in NYC, NYC AI Hiring Index</a></p>
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About AI in NYC, in one paragraph
AI in NYC is a video podcast, a weekly newsletter, and a closed-door dinner series about the people building artificial intelligence in New York City. It also measures the city’s AI job market: every day it reads the public job boards of the New York AI companies it tracks, and it publishes who is hiring, for what, and at what posted pay.
The longer version
AI in NYC covers the people building artificial intelligence in New York City through a video podcast, a weekly newsletter, and a closed-door dinner series. The AI in NYC Show has run since February 2021, first as Investing in AI and then as AI Innovators, and took its current name in October 2025. It is hosted by Rob May, Anna Kirk, Lauren Slyman, and Stephen Messer. AI in NYC also measures the New York AI economy from primary data. Every day it reads the public job boards of the city’s AI companies and publishes what it finds: the NYC AI Hiring Index, a free index of open roles, posted pay by function and level, the skills and tools employers name, and the NYC AI 100, an annual list of the city’s AI companies. Its methods and their known limits are published in full. AI in NYC is operated by AI Media Concepts Inc.
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