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Research Sales and Marketing Occupations vs Software Occupations
Federal occupation data neither confirm nor refute that selling jobs held up better than software jobs in California: the answer flips with how software work is defined and with whether you count jobs or occupation-and-metro pairs.
Research What Do Businesses Use AI for? Census Data Outside Tech
Outside the two tech sectors, AI use in sales and marketing and self-reported AI substitution for employee tasks are both present across sectors, which counts against 'not really used'; the survey does not test whether AI paid off.
Research AI Adoption by City: Do Businesses Outside San Francisco Use AI?
In Census data, businesses in the 24 large metros other than San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley report AI use at 22.5% on average, close to that metro's 26.3%, and that metro is not first among the 25.
Research Entry-Level Jobs and AI: Is It Only Programmers?
In a published ADP payroll index, the gap between workers aged 22 to 25 and older workers that opened after Nov 2022 is not unique to software developers, but the data say nothing about why.
Research Junior Developer Jobs: What Payroll Data Show by Age Band
In one payroll index, employment of US software developers aged 22-25 sits well below its Nov 2022 level, 26-30 slightly below, and every band from 31 up above it, in a hump that peaks at 41-49; that is not a clean 'only juniors' pattern and it cannot show an explanation.
Research Is AI Only Used by Tech Companies? What Census and Ramp Data Show
AI use outside tech is substantial, but tech is still about 2.8 times non-tech; the 'not only tech' result depends on thresholds chosen after the first and last values were seen.
Research How Many Small Businesses Use AI? Census Data by Size and Industry
Industry differs far more than size: all-sizes AI-use rates run from 10% to 49% across industries, while national rates are nearly flat below 50 employees and rise above (an exploratory reading), although inside an industry larger small firms tend to report somewhat more.