What AI Means to You & For Your Money – Top 3 Takeaways – July 29th, 2026

Here’s the jobs scorecard over the past year... Jobs taken by the implementation of AI: 192,000. Jobs directly created by the AI buildout: 175,000. Jobs added over the past year due to the increased economic growth provided by the AI boom through GDP growth: 1.4 million. You may have heard recently President Trump say that a record number of Americans were working recently...and that’s true. And it’s attributable to what AI added over the past year which is a total of around 1,383,000 jobs today that wouldn’t have existed previously. What’s more...the average compensation for jobs brought about due to AI typically pays about 30% more than the average other job.