Get the insights you need to plan your future with confidence. With real-time labor market data, you can explore the most in-demand skills, compare salaries across industries, and identify relevant job titles that align with your career goals.
Use this tool to research job trends, discover emerging fields, and evaluate potential career options before making important decisions. Whether you’re choosing a major, preparing for internships, or planning your post-graduation journey, labor market data helps you make informed, strategic choices every step of the way.
There are two ways to navigate this tool:
Keyword Search: Search for the title of the job you’re looking to pursue or skills you may have that could be relevant to a particular career path. (Note: refine your search with different keywords if needed to find the most relevant information for making informed career decisions.)
Narrow Down by Industry + Occupation: If you have a general sense of the industry you’d like to pursue, you can narrow down the occupations within a given industry to help you decide.
First, choose an industry of interest, then filter for occupation. (If you'd like to see data for a specific location only, filter by state.)
Type in a keyword to select a relevant occupation. (If you'd like to see data for a specific location only, filter by state.)
Occupation Description
Employment Trends
The number of jobs in the career for the past two years, the current year, and projections for the next 10 years. Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs. Sources include Emsi industry data, staffing patterns, and OES data.
Top Employers
These companies are currently hiring for .
Education Levels
The educational attainment percentage breakdown for a career (e.g. the percentage of people in the career who hold Bachelor’s Degrees vs. Associate Degrees). Educational attainment levels are provided by O*NET.
Annual Earnings
Earnings figures are based on OES data from the BLS and include base rate, cost of living allowances, guaranteed pay, hazardous-duty pay, incentive pay (including commissions and bonuses), on-call pay, and tips.
Technical Skills
A list of hard skills associated with a given career ordered by the number of unique job postings which ask for those skills.
Core Competencies
The skills for the career. The "importance" is how relevant the ability is to the occupation: scale of 1-5. The "level" is the proficiency required by the occupation: scale of 0-100. Results are sorted by importance first, then level.
Job Titles
A list of job titles for all unique postings in a given career, sorted by frequency.
This page includes information from the O*NET 25.1 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor,
Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of
USDOL/ETA. uConnect in partnership with Lightcast has modified all or some of this information. USDOL/ETA has not
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