How much AI do entry-level postings ask for?
The question. Does the AI-related share of postings differ by seniority band, and does it differ the same way in a panel built around AI employers and one that was not?
What it found
Entry level is the lowest band in both arms. The gap is far larger among AI-forward employers than in the AI-agnostic panel, but the direction is the same in both, which it was not on the first pass. The confound was never seniority, it was occupation: restricting to postings the classifier assigns to a business discipline removes the retail contamination that made three earlier attempts wrong in three different ways.
The numbers
| Discipline | Sub-corpus | Band | n | AI share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Information Systems | remote_boards | senior_plus | 28,778 | 58.6% |
| Information Systems | remote_boards | ic_unspecified | 24,638 | 47.1% |
| Information Systems | remote_boards | manager | 13,081 | 51.8% |
| Sales | remote_boards | ic_unspecified | 9,669 | 43.7% |
| Business Management | remote_boards | manager | 8,630 | 50.7% |
| Information Systems | the_muse | ic_unspecified | 7,407 | 30.7% |
| Marketing | remote_boards | manager | 7,104 | 59.8% |
| Sales | remote_boards | manager | 6,956 | 39.9% |
| Information Systems | ats_panel | senior_plus | 6,062 | 82.5% |
| Information Systems | the_muse | senior_plus | 5,590 | 43.8% |
| Business Management | remote_boards | ic_unspecified | 5,560 | 31.8% |
| Business Management | remote_boards | senior_plus | 5,279 | 47.3% |
| Information Systems | remote_boards | unknown | 4,652 | 38.9% |
| Sales | remote_boards | senior_plus | 4,290 | 56.8% |
| Strategic Management | remote_boards | manager | 3,877 | 69.4% |
| Information Systems | hacker_news | senior_plus | 3,645 | 38.0% |
| Information Systems | ats_panel | ic_unspecified | 3,551 | 59.8% |
| Information Systems | hacker_news | ic_unspecified | 3,289 | 44.4% |
| Marketing | remote_boards | senior_plus | 3,215 | 61.1% |
| Information Systems | the_muse | manager | 2,972 | 34.4% |
| Information Systems | ats_panel | manager | 2,726 | 79.1% |
| Information Systems | hacker_news | unknown | 2,339 | 46.3% |
| Strategic Management | remote_boards | senior_plus | 2,248 | 62.0% |
| Business Management | the_muse | manager | 2,157 | 29.9% |
| Sales | the_muse | ic_unspecified | 2,130 | 34.3% |
| Experience Design and Management | remote_boards | unknown | 2,003 | 45.5% |
| Marketing | remote_boards | unknown | 1,956 | 38.4% |
| Sales | the_muse | manager | 1,942 | 30.3% |
| Marketing | remote_boards | ic_unspecified | 1,884 | 41.5% |
| Information Systems | remote_boards | entry | 1,864 | 41.9% |
| Business Management | ats_panel | manager | 1,758 | 75.4% |
| Sales | ats_panel | ic_unspecified | 1,742 | 77.4% |
| Business Management | the_muse | ic_unspecified | 1,707 | 26.7% |
| Accounting | remote_boards | unknown | 1,685 | 16.6% |
| Sales | remote_boards | unknown | 1,544 | 26.5% |
| Information Systems | the_muse | entry | 1,534 | 45.6% |
| Business Management | the_muse | senior_plus | 1,518 | 37.5% |
| Experience Design and Management | remote_boards | senior_plus | 1,360 | 64.2% |
| Human Resource Management | remote_boards | senior_plus | 1,335 | 42.0% |
| Marketing | ats_panel | manager | 1,276 | 81.0% |
| Finance | remote_boards | senior_plus | 1,204 | 39.6% |
| Business Management | remote_boards | unknown | 1,184 | 41.1% |
| Accounting | remote_boards | senior_plus | 1,156 | 27.3% |
| Information Systems | the_muse | unknown | 1,147 | 35.1% |
| Finance | the_muse | senior_plus | 1,094 | 22.3% |
| Human Resource Management | remote_boards | unknown | 1,075 | 23.7% |
| Sales | ats_panel | senior_plus | 1,017 | 87.2% |
| Business Management | remote_boards | entry | 997 | 35.9% |
| Finance | the_muse | unknown | 977 | 2.4% |
| Business Management | the_muse | entry | 964 | 24.4% |
| Strategic Management | ats_panel | manager | 958 | 84.4% |
| Sales | ats_panel | manager | 955 | 74.7% |
| Human Resource Management | remote_boards | ic_unspecified | 888 | 27.1% |
| Marketing | the_muse | manager | 846 | 40.4% |
| Marketing | the_muse | senior_plus | 822 | 40.3% |
| Global Supply Chain Management | the_muse | manager | 815 | 5.9% |
| Finance | remote_boards | unknown | 804 | 25.9% |
| Strategic Management | remote_boards | ic_unspecified | 801 | 48.8% |
| Finance | the_muse | manager | 797 | 12.7% |
| Marketing | remote_boards | entry | 778 | 35.5% |
| Information Systems | ats_panel | unknown | 747 | 51.4% |
| Finance | the_muse | entry | 746 | 14.3% |
| Finance | remote_boards | manager | 721 | 36.9% |
| Strategic Management | remote_boards | unknown | 717 | 52.0% |
| Sales | the_muse | senior_plus | 709 | 45.1% |
| Strategic Management | the_muse | senior_plus | 689 | 41.7% |
| Business Management | ats_panel | senior_plus | 672 | 69.2% |
| Finance | remote_boards | ic_unspecified | 665 | 29.8% |
| Business Management | ats_panel | ic_unspecified | 647 | 49.6% |
| Accounting | remote_boards | manager | 585 | 27.5% |
| Information Systems | ats_panel | entry | 542 | 57.9% |
| Sales | remote_boards | entry | 538 | 42.0% |
| Marketing | ats_panel | senior_plus | 530 | 80.9% |
| Accounting | the_muse | senior_plus | 504 | 32.3% |
| Finance | the_muse | ic_unspecified | 484 | 20.2% |
| Strategic Management | the_muse | manager | 481 | 41.4% |
| Information Systems | hacker_news | manager | 468 | 33.1% |
| Global Supply Chain Management | remote_boards | senior_plus | 464 | 39.2% |
| Human Resource Management | remote_boards | manager | 463 | 39.3% |
| Global Supply Chain Management | remote_boards | manager | 455 | 33.2% |
| Human Resource Management | the_muse | senior_plus | 395 | 26.8% |
| Experience Design and Management | the_muse | senior_plus | 395 | 46.3% |
| Global Supply Chain Management | remote_boards | ic_unspecified | 391 | 22.0% |
| Business Management | the_muse | unknown | 357 | 19.3% |
| Marketing | the_muse | entry | 338 | 20.7% |
| Global Supply Chain Management | the_muse | entry | 317 | 12.6% |
| Accounting | remote_boards | ic_unspecified | 314 | 24.5% |
| Accounting | the_muse | manager | 309 | 34.3% |
| Strategic Management | ats_panel | senior_plus | 309 | 80.9% |
| Experience Design and Management | ats_panel | senior_plus | 303 | 75.9% |
| Human Resource Management | ats_panel | senior_plus | 284 | 81.0% |
| Business Management | ats_panel | entry | 274 | 51.1% |
| Global Supply Chain Management | the_muse | ic_unspecified | 272 | 15.8% |
| Strategic Management | the_muse | entry | 259 | 25.9% |
| Accounting | remote_boards | entry | 257 | 21.4% |
| Experience Design and Management | the_muse | unknown | 253 | 44.3% |
| Sales | ats_panel | unknown | 249 | 56.6% |
| Human Resource Management | remote_boards | entry | 242 | 26.0% |
| Accounting | the_muse | unknown | 241 | 19.1% |
| Global Supply Chain Management | remote_boards | unknown | 238 | 16.4% |
| Global Supply Chain Management | the_muse | senior_plus | 228 | 14.5% |
| Strategic Management | remote_boards | entry | 227 | 52.0% |
| Marketing | the_muse | ic_unspecified | 225 | 27.6% |
| Business Management | ats_panel | unknown | 219 | 51.6% |
| Accounting | the_muse | entry | 217 | 18.0% |
| Business Management | hacker_news | manager | 215 | 35.3% |
| Marketing | hacker_news | manager | 215 | 35.3% |
| Finance | remote_boards | entry | 207 | 24.6% |
| Entrepreneurial Management | remote_boards | unknown | 204 | 37.3% |
| Entrepreneurial Management | remote_boards | senior_plus | 199 | — |
| Experience Design and Management | remote_boards | ic_unspecified | 194 | — |
| Global Supply Chain Management | the_muse | unknown | 190 | — |
| Strategic Management | hacker_news | manager | 189 | — |
| Strategic Management | the_muse | ic_unspecified | 176 | — |
| Sales | the_muse | entry | 176 | — |
| Information Systems | hacker_news | entry | 175 | — |
| Human Resource Management | ats_panel | unknown | 170 | — |
| Finance | ats_panel | senior_plus | 167 | — |
| Accounting | ats_panel | senior_plus | 163 | — |
| Entrepreneurial Management | remote_boards | entry | 163 | — |
| Marketing | the_muse | unknown | 161 | — |
| Experience Design and Management | ats_panel | unknown | 160 | — |
| Human Resource Management | the_muse | manager | 153 | — |
| Accounting | the_muse | ic_unspecified | 151 | — |
| Human Resource Management | the_muse | ic_unspecified | 150 | — |
| Marketing | ats_panel | entry | 147 | — |
| Marketing | ats_panel | unknown | 143 | — |
| Sales | the_muse | unknown | 140 | — |
| Entrepreneurial Management | hacker_news | unknown | 137 | — |
| Global Supply Chain Management | ats_panel | unknown | 129 | — |
| Marketing | hacker_news | unknown | 128 | — |
| Human Resource Management | the_muse | entry | 121 | — |
| Entrepreneurial Management | hacker_news | senior_plus | 121 | — |
| Finance | ats_panel | manager | 111 | — |
| Human Resource Management | ats_panel | ic_unspecified | 109 | — |
| Human Resource Management | the_muse | unknown | 108 | — |
| Marketing | hacker_news | senior_plus | 108 | — |
| Experience Design and Management | remote_boards | entry | 107 | — |
| Strategic Management | the_muse | unknown | 105 | — |
| Business Management | hacker_news | unknown | 100 | — |
| Accounting | ats_panel | manager | 98 | — |
| Global Supply Chain Management | ats_panel | manager | 95 | — |
| Strategic Management | ats_panel | entry | 95 | — |
| Sales | hacker_news | ic_unspecified | 90 | — |
| Strategic Management | ats_panel | ic_unspecified | 88 | — |
| Sales | ats_panel | entry | 87 | — |
| Experience Design and Management | hacker_news | unknown | 86 | — |
| Strategic Management | ats_panel | unknown | 84 | — |
| Sales | hacker_news | senior_plus | 82 | — |
| Human Resource Management | ats_panel | manager | 81 | — |
| Experience Design and Management | the_muse | manager | 81 | — |
| Marketing | ats_panel | ic_unspecified | 80 | — |
| Experience Design and Management | the_muse | ic_unspecified | 79 | — |
| Global Supply Chain Management | ats_panel | senior_plus | 78 | — |
| Business Management | hacker_news | senior_plus | 66 | — |
| Experience Design and Management | hacker_news | ic_unspecified | 66 | — |
| Finance | ats_panel | ic_unspecified | 64 | — |
| Global Supply Chain Management | ats_panel | entry | 64 | — |
| Experience Design and Management | hacker_news | senior_plus | 64 | — |
| Global Supply Chain Management | remote_boards | entry | 63 | — |
| Human Resource Management | ats_panel | entry | 62 | — |
| Accounting | ats_panel | unknown | 62 | — |
| Business Management | hacker_news | ic_unspecified | 61 | — |
| Finance | ats_panel | unknown | 60 | — |
| Experience Design and Management | remote_boards | manager | 60 | — |
| Strategic Management | hacker_news | senior_plus | 56 | — |
| Entrepreneurial Management | hacker_news | ic_unspecified | 56 | — |
| Accounting | ats_panel | ic_unspecified | 52 | — |
| Marketing | hacker_news | ic_unspecified | 52 | — |
| Global Supply Chain Management | ats_panel | ic_unspecified | 50 | — |
| Finance | ats_panel | entry | 47 | — |
| Global Supply Chain Management | hacker_news | unknown | 45 | — |
| Sales | hacker_news | unknown | 43 | — |
| Experience Design and Management | hacker_news | manager | 37 | — |
| Sales | hacker_news | manager | 36 | — |
| Experience Design and Management | the_muse | entry | 36 | — |
| Finance | hacker_news | unknown | 34 | — |
| Global Supply Chain Management | hacker_news | ic_unspecified | 33 | — |
| Experience Design and Management | ats_panel | entry | 30 | — |
| Business Management | hacker_news | entry | 28 | — |
| Experience Design and Management | ats_panel | manager | 28 | — |
| Accounting | ats_panel | entry | 27 | — |
A blank AI share means the cell is above the visibility floor but below the 200 needed to print a percentage.
How it was computed
Title-based seniority classification validated against a real graduating cohort, pinned to one classifier run, primary discipline labels only, faceted by sub-corpus.
How to read it
Nominal seniority is not attainability: a title being senior does not mean a new graduate cannot hold it. Percentages are suppressed below n = 200 and cells hidden below n = 20. Interns have genuinely shorter postings, so they are folded into the entry band rather than reported alone.
Source view: entry_level_ai_share · published 2026-09-10