How the AI jobspocolypse is playing out for young NYC tech workers

Entry-level tech positions are becoming rarer in NYC.

Lea Winkler/picture alliance via Getty Images NYC tech job postings fell 49% from 2022-2025, hitting entry-level positions the hardest.

AI's rise and economic factors like interest rates impact NYC's entry-level tech job market.

NYC's tech sector remains strong, but high living costs may drive tech talent elsewhere.

The next generation of workers is finding it harder to take a bite into the Big Apple's tech market.

NYC entry-level tech job postings have fallen 49% from 2022 to 2025, the largest decline of any other career field, according to the think tank Center for an Urban Future's September report "Strengthening NYC's Entry-Level Tech Pathways in the Age of AI." As the title of the report suggests, one culprit for the decline in entry-level tech jobs might be AI.

Business Insider has reported on the impact of generative AI on the job market , hitting recent college grads and early professionals the hardest as entry-level positions dry up.

The report indicates that early-career tech workers in New York City are finding it hardest to break into the market, especially as the number of college graduates capable of doing the job outnumbers the number of actual postings.

"The supply of new college graduates with computer science and related degrees in New York City eclipsed entry-level tech job postings in 2023 for the first time since data collection began in 2010," the report said.

In NYC, entry-level tech jobs declined across nearly every industry, except for two — transportation and warehousing, and public administration.

The latter saw an especially large increase, up 230% since 2022.

Meanwhile, educational services and retail trade had the sharpest declines in entry-level job postings in tech, at 69% and 67%, respectively.

Jonathan Bowles, executive director of CFU, said this difference in growth could be because sectors like transportation and warehousing, and public administration, were playing catch-up compared to other early-adopting sectors that are now pulling back.

Tech employment isn't falling — it's stagnant The overall number of tech jobs in NYC has not fallen, but instead has remained stagnant over the past three years, compared with previous years of significant growth.