Every role has a way forward.

We read the newest research from McKinsey, BCG, Deloitte, PwC, the World Economic Forum and more. Then we mapped it to 100 roles. Find yours.

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The hard truth for your role, how to grow in it, and where your skills can carry you.

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Openings we found

158 of 200

openings we found grow a job people already have. Most aren't new AI titles.

Pathcast count of 200 openings, October 2026

What the research agrees on

Four numbers worth knowing.

New jobs by 2030

170M

created worldwide, against 92M that end.

World Economic Forum, January 2025

Pay for AI skills

62%

higher pay on average for workers with AI skills.

PwC AI Jobs Barometer, June 2026

Cuts that happened

14%

of companies saw AI shrink their workforce last year. 32% had expected to.

McKinsey State of AI, August 2026

Jobs asking for AI skills

+69%

growth, against 9% for jobs overall.

PwC AI Jobs Barometer, June 2026

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What the best career advice has in common

In their own words.

The skills that are so often dismissed as "soft" turned out to be the hard ones.

Ethan Mollick, Wharton, January 2026

Instead of making five-year plans, consider six-month experiments.

Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn cofounder, June 2025

So we all have control. But it's gonna be work.

Aneesh Raman, LinkedIn, April 2026

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Your first six-month experiment starts here.

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Sources and how we did this

For each role we read the newest research we could find and checked every number on its source page in October 2026. Most growth figures are US projections from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for 2025 to 2035. Where a role has no figure of its own, we used the closest occupation and say so. Each role's sources are linked on its card.