The Brookings Institution, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, used U.S. Department of Labor data to rate occupations from zero to 100 based on the amount of digital technology skills each job requires. The average score for all occupations rose from 29 in 2002 to 46 in 2016.
The study also found that the use of digital tools increased in 517 of 545 occupations since 2002. Jobs with a greater focus on digital also tend to pay more and are concentrated in more metropolitan areas like Austin, Texas, Seattle or San Francisco.
“What we found is that the more digital a job is, on balance the better the pay — and also the less chance there is for total displacement of your job,” Mark Muro, a senior fellow at Brookings and co-author of the report, said, according to Reuters.
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