The Labor Market Insights tool connects your liberal arts education with real-time job market data, empowering you to explore career paths, understand industry trends, and make informed decisions about your future.
With the Labor Market Insights tool, you can explore:
Career Paths: Gain insights into various job functions, industries, and career trajectories. See how your academic background and interests align with potential career opportunities.
Employment Trends: Analyze the demand for specific roles and skills, both current and projected over the next decade. Explore regional demands and emerging industries.
Salary Projections: Access data on average annual salaries across various job titles and experience levels, helping you set realistic expectations and plan for your financial future.
Top Employers: Identify organizations actively hiring for roles that match your interests, providing targeted leads for your job search.
In-Demand Skills: Discover the technical skills and core competencies employers are seeking, so you can build experience and tailor your resume accordingly.
Job Titles & Education Requirements: Learn about the different titles used in the industry for similar positions, along with the educational requirements for various roles.
Whether you’re beginning your career exploration, planning your next step, or seeking a career transition, the Labor Market Insights tool offers essential information to help you navigate the job market confidently.
Using the Tool:
Keyword Search: Enter a job title or skill, select a location, and receive detailed job insights.
Industry Exploration: Choose an industry to explore and discover the roles and opportunities it offers.
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
approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications.
