21 September 2026 · 1 min
If AI is causing mass unemployment among software developers, it is not showing up in the data yet.
The USA had more software developers as a percentage of the population in 2025 than in 2021.
On average salaries are slightly up (average of 148k$ a year). The 90th percentile is up from 2021 (215k$US a year).
Daniel Lemire, "The data does not show mass unemployment," in Daniel Lemire's blog, September 21, 2026, https://lemire.me/blog/2026/09/21/nomassunemployment/.
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