--- title: "Economists See Slightly Steadier Hiring Ahead, but Offer an AI Wage Warning for College Grads · AI Fault Line" url: https://aifaultline.com/research/p/title-ea25dd7e26a821a7/ description: "AI Fault Line is a neutral, evidence-cited field guide to why experts looking at the same developments disagree about AI's effect on productivity, jobs, inequality, regulation and the pace of change." --- [Research](https://aifaultline.com/research/) # Economists See Slightly Steadier Hiring Ahead, but Offer an AI Wage Warning for College Grads Indeed Hiring Lab (institute research) · 24 Sep 2026 [Read original source](https://hiringlab.indeed.com/2026/09/24/q3-labor-market-outlook-survey/) Open access Not peer reviewed Where this sits in the debate - [Will AI destroy more jobs than it creates?](https://aifaultline.com/debate/jobs/) - [Will AI widen inequality?](https://aifaultline.com/debate/inequality/) Direction of the finding as read from the abstract by an AI model ([AI-written](https://aifaultline.com/about/)). ## Source excerpt AI’s near-term economic bite is more likely to be felt in the paychecks of degree-holding workers, according to an Indeed Hiring Lab survey of experts. The post Economists See Slightly Steadier Hiring Ahead, but Offer an AI Wage Warning for College Grads appeared first on Indeed Hiring Lab . ## About this publication **Lab or institute research, not peer reviewed.** A report or blog post published by an AI lab or research institute on its own site. It has not been through independent peer review, and the publisher may have a stake in the findings. Published 2026 (recently) Citations Not recorded for this source Citation counts come from OpenAlex; none are recorded for this source — absence of a count is not absence of citations. [Chart: published 2026] ## More on this topic Related by theme, not necessarily by method or conclusion. - [The Effects of Generative AI on High Skilled Work: Evidence from Three Field Experiments with Software Developers](https://aifaultline.com/research/p/doi-10-2139-ssrn-4945566/) SSRN · 2024 - [GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models](https://aifaultline.com/research/p/doi-10-48550-arxiv-2303-10130/) arXiv · 2023 - [Experimental evidence on the productivity effects of generative artificial intelligence](https://aifaultline.com/research/p/doi-10-1126-science-adh2586/) Science · 2023 - [The simple macroeconomics of AI](https://aifaultline.com/research/p/doi-10-1093-epolic-eiae042/) Economic Policy · 2024 Overview assembled automatically from collected metadata. [How this site is built](https://aifaultline.com/about/).