Modeled estimates

Labor

People, premiums, and how many agents the grid can actually run. Every number on this page is a modeled estimate smeared from a public print — not a live API, not a hard claim.

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Wage premium · modeled estimate · stock

Wage premium for AI-skilled workers

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Snapshot · not a live derivative

Not a ticker — a cliff. PwC's jobs barometer found the premium more than doubled in a year as employers priced a skill the schools could not mint fast enough.

25% in 2024. 56% in 2025. The market is running ahead of the workforce.

Source: PwC AI Jobs Barometer 2025, nearly one billion job ads.

Agent-equivalents · modeled estimate · stock

Fully autonomous agent-equivalents

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~9 / hour

Not chatbots — the theoretical number of full-time knowledge workers the current token factory could replace if every token went to autonomous work. Tiny today. Not tiny in 2028.

~1,300 now; ~1.2 million by 2028 in the median scenario.

Source: The Neuron, AI Economics 101 (Mar 2026), token-to-salary conversion.

Knowledge workers · modeled estimate · year

Knowledge workers using AI this year

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~13 / second

Enterprises reporting AI in at least one function hit 88% in late 2025. We meter individual knowledge workers who opened a copilot this year, not firms.

Most of them are still using it as a faster intern, not an agent.

Source: McKinsey Global Survey Nov 2025; Microsoft diffusion; AiSignal modeling.