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Career Acceleration Media Library
Local Salary and Job Market DataIn partnership with
Explore occupations by career categories and pathways and use real time labor market data to power your decision making.
- Find career data by selecting keywords Keyword Search
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Type in a keyword to select a relevant occupation. (If you'd like to see data for a specific location only, filter by state.)
- 01 Occupation Description
- 02 Employment Trends
- 03 Top Employers
- 04 Education Levels
- 05 Annual Earnings
- 06 Technical Skills
- 07 Core Competencies
- 08 Job Titles
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.