Here are the 5 states where AI jobs are growing the fastest -and California's not one of them

• A ZipRecruiter report found that at the start of 2020, the 5 states with the fastest growth in jobs related to AI were: Colorado, Utah, Virginia, Texas, and Arizona.
• These 5 states saw a 93% increase in AI-related job postings from 2018 to the start of 2020.
• At the start of 2020, more than 90% of AI-related jobs were in California, Washington, New York, and Massachussetts. The number of new AI job postings in these 4 states, on the other hand, only increased by 35% from 2018 to 2020.
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The number of new jobs in AI keeps growing, and the most growth isn't coming in Silicon Valley.

A new ZipRecruiter report reveals that jobs related to AI increased by 93% from 2018 to 2020 in Colorado, Utah, Virginia, Arizona, and Texas.

ZipRecruiter estimates that California's notoriously high income taxes and cost of living might be pushing people - and AI jobs - to lower-cost states. California lost 691,000 residents and New York lost 458,014 in 2018, according to Census data.

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The vast majority of jobs in AI - more than 90% - were in California, Washington, New York, and Massachussetts, in that order, but the overall growth in the space was just 35% from 2018 to 2020.

Here are the 5 states that are seeing the largest increase in AI jobs heading into 2020: