Workers With These AI Skills Are Getting Cash Premiums
CIO, Tuesday, June 11th, 2024
As AI deployments become more critical to digital transformation projects, organizations are struggling to find skilled workers to support the new technology, so they're paying premiums for prospective hires or current employees who obtain the needed skills.
As companies are scramble to get ahead in the artificial intelligence (AI) arms race, one problem the face is finding and retaining AI talent.
For example, Meta has been extending job offers to candidates with AI experience without even interviewing them, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg went so far as to email researchers at Google's DeepMind unit to recruit talent.
According to a recent study led by the Oxford Internet Institute, 'AI skills are particularly valuable as they have high levels of skill complementarity, increasing worker wages by 21% on average.'