Providing Workers with Compensation Insights

Americans are sending an average of about 3 million ChatGPT messages daily to reduce the pay information gap. Pay information plays a decisive role in job selection and negotiation, but accurate information is hard to find, especially early in a career or when switching occupations. Instead of searching multiple sites or asking socially sensitive questions, ChatGPT functions as a new labor market resource that provides pay benchmarks in seconds.

According to a recent study, the types of information users seek to obtain through ChatGPT are as follows:

• Salary calculation: 26%
• Specific roles: 19%
• Startup-related: 18%
• Specific roles at specific companies: 11%
• Occupation and career-related: 11%

Pay searches are concentrated in high-skill occupations such as arts, design, management, healthcare, and computer and mathematics fields, where pay transparency is low or negotiating power matters. In particular, demand for AI-based searches is higher in fields with larger pay gaps and less transparent information.

OpenAI introduced a new benchmark called WorkerBench to evaluate models' ability to perform labor market tasks. When GPT-5.4 was evaluated against 2024 OEWS median wages, it showed high coverage and low bias, providing highly accurate figures.