This AI will tell you whether you're being paid enough (or too much)

How helpful would it have been for you to know the salary of that job, or at least the potential salary range, before you went through the whole application and interview process? It's evident that employers are reluctant to reveal salaries at the application stage, but researchers at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence are helping circumvent this barrier with the help of AI, so prospective employees can decide for themselves which job listings are worth their time (via Venture Beat (opens in new tab)). The process involves training the AI on a dataset of over a million job postings, which allows it to "use the text of job listings to evaluate the salary-relevant characteristics of jobs in close-to real time." It does so with 87% accuracy, compared to the 69% it got from using the job postings' titles and location alone. A study of 6,000 professionals in the UK showed 81% of us cite salary as the most important factor (opens in new tab) in finding a new job, and yet the earning potential transparency issue persists.