A career’s detail page

What this does

A career page tells you, for one career in one state, what the job is, what it pays, how it is expected to change, and which schools in your state lead into it. The heading reads "career in your state". If you came from a particular degree program, a line under the heading reads "Pathway: program" and the school table shows only that program.

From top to bottom the page shows: a description of the work (from O*NET, the federal occupation database), with credentials, industries, federal hiring and an AI Outlook; the pay tiles; a More for career link bar; the school filters and table; a sample of recent job postings; and a table of pay by metro area.

• Students see what the work involves day to day and which schools lead into it.
• Parents see entry and typical pay, and what each school path costs.
• Counselors see the license a career needs in your state and can open the ROI Calculator for any school in one click.

Before you start

• Get here from a career. Open a card on the Careers page, a See universities → link on the degrees-for-a-career page, or a career link on a degree page. Opened with no career chosen, the page sends you to the Careers list.
• Pick a state. With no state chosen, the page shows only Pick a state to see pay and schools for career. (or "for this career" when the link does not carry the career's name) and the Showing data for menu. Pick the state where you plan to study or work: pay, credentials, postings and schools are all for that state.
• Know your residency. School costs default to in-state tuition. If you would pay out-of-state tuition, change Residency (cost basis) once the table loads.

Step by step

1. Open a career from the Careers list. The heading changes from Career profile to "career in your state", and the table area shows "Loading data — this may take a moment on first load…".
2. Read What career actually does. It opens expanded. Click its heading to fold it away and jump to pay and schools; click again to open it.
3. At the end of that panel, read AI Outlook. Click About this rating to see the year-by-year estimate, the most exposed tasks and the sources.
4. Read the pay tiles: the Actual wages paid (BLS OEWS survey) card and, when there are enough postings, the Advertised in current postings (sample) card with Why two numbers? below it.
5. Use the More for career bar (it stays at the top of the screen as you scroll) to jump to Jobs Trends, the degrees for this career, or Compare.
6. Set Type of school, Pathway and Residency (cost basis). Each change reloads the school table.
7. Then narrow the table with the Type: chips, the City: box and Search university for career. These work instantly, without reloading. Clear filters appears while a chip is on.
8. Click a column heading to sort. The table starts sorted by State Rank, best first.
9. Click ⓘ Show institution insights under a school to open a short profile of it, or Calculate ROI → to open the ROI Calculator for that school and program.
10. Scroll to Recent your state postings for career and your state wage benchmarks for career for postings by metro and employer, and pay by metro.

Every control explained

The chips, the city box and the name search stay applied when you change one of the three menus: the table reloads for the new menu choice and is narrowed again by the chips and boxes you already set. Column sorting is kept too.

Reading the results

What the career actually does

A short summary, then lists from O*NET 30.2 (the federal occupation database). Each list is hidden when O*NET has nothing for it.

• About this match appears only when you reached the page through a credential search on the Careers page (for example BCBA). It says the government does not track holders of that credential separately, so the page covers the broader career as a whole.
• Common tasks and Key activities: the five most important core tasks and work activities.
• Skills, Knowledge, Abilities, Work styles: the five most important of each.
• Tools and technology and Software and technologies: up to eight each; the software list favours tools employers ask for most.
• Typical education: the most common education level among workers, with its share in percent, then the next most common levels and their shares.
• Industries this career concentrates in: up to ten industries, each with the share of this career's U.S. jobs that are in it, and that industry's projected ten-year job change (↑ or ↓, in percent). Source: BLS Employment Projections national industry-occupation matrix, 2024–2034.
• Federal civilian hiring in your state: how many federal job postings for this career were recorded in your state over the years shown, and the top five departments. Source: USAJobs.gov historical archive (2014–2024). These are past postings, not open jobs. Hidden when there are none.
• The panel ends with a Source: line naming O*NET.

Credentials

Shown inside the description panel, after Typical education. Each row gives the license or credential name, the body that issues it, and a Required or Preferred tag.

• Required Credential with "To work this career in your state, you also need:" when at least one credential is required to work.
• Recommended Credential with "Common your state credentials that boost hiring and pay (not required for entry):" when the credentials help but are not required.
• Senior Leadership Role for top executive and appointed roles: these are reached after many years of experience, not through a credential, so no list is shown.
• No credential section at all when your state has no credential on record for the career.

Texas credentials come from a Texas licensing list that marks each one required or preferred. Other states come from that state's licensing records, where every entry is treated as required.

AI Outlook

A colored label, one or two sentences on why, and a "What this means:" line. The labels are AI-Complemented (AI mostly helps workers do more), Largely Insulated (hands-on, in-person or regulated work that AI cannot do much of), Mixed (sub-specialties differ a lot), and At Risk — Near Term (1–3y), At Risk — Mid Term (3–7y) or At Risk — Long Term (7–15y). For the At Risk labels, the percentages describe the share of a typical workday's task time AI could do, not the share of people who will lose their jobs.

About this rating holds:

• A small line chart over 2027, 2030 and 2035. The solid line, P(substituted), is the estimated share of task time AI could take over, in percent, with a shaded band for its 80% range (the range the estimate falls in four times out of five). The dashed line, P(augmented), is the share of task time AI would help with. Hover a point to read its value.
• Top exposed tasks: up to three tasks most open to AI.
• Sources: the publishers behind the rating, by name: O*NET task lists; Eloundou et al., "GPTs are GPTs"; Felten, Raj & Seamans, AI Occupational Exposure; Frey & Osborne; Brookings AI exposure index; McKinsey Global Institute (2023); BLS Employment Projections; NCES education-to-occupation crosswalk. Only the ones used for that career are listed.
• A note: "Research-based estimate. Confidence interval shown is 80%. AI-impact ratings are catalog metadata, not personalized advice."

How it is computed: each O*NET task for the career is rated for exposure to AI from the published research above, split into tasks AI could do and tasks it would help with, and combined into the yearly estimates; the label follows fixed rules on those estimates. The ratings were built offline (last rated May 2026) and are the same in every state. A career without a rating shows a line saying the rating is not yet available.

Pay tiles and "Why two numbers?"

Why two numbers? appears with the advertised card. The first card is what workers in this career earn now, from the federal OEWS survey of employers. The second is what is advertised right now in the postings sample, which covers only part of the market (the card says how much). Many postings list no pay, and listed pay tends to sit low because employers often advertise the bottom of the band. Use the survey figure for "what does this career pay" and the postings figure for "what is the open-jobs market doing now". A value that cannot be found shows "—"; if both survey values are missing, the survey card is hidden.

School table

One row per school in your state that offers a program leading to the career (its best-fitting program), inside a box that scrolls.

The rows arrive listed by outcome measures: earnings, completion and cost; the page then sorts them by State Rank. When filters leave nothing, the table reads No universities match the current filters.

Institution insights show, where published: acceptance rate, SAT and ACT ranges, median earnings five years after graduation, share earning over $25,000, median debt, loan repayment and default rates, retention, student-faculty ratio, faculty count and pay, library size and spending, undergraduate enrollment, first-generation share, endowment, and badges such as HBCU, Hispanic-Serving or Online-only. Sources: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard and NCES IPEDS, latest published.

Recent postings

Recent your state postings for career starts with "Sample of recent your state postings. Last refreshed date.", a line on how much of the market the sample covers, and "Counts below are sample volume, not absolute hiring volume." Then three columns:

• By your state metro: postings per metro area, the metro's OEWS median pay where published, and the metro's share of the career's postings in percent. A footer names the survey year and how many metros have pay.
• By experience level: Entry · no degree, Entry · UG/grad, Mid, Senior, Executive, Unclassified (levels with no postings are left out).
• Top employers: the employers with the most postings in the sample.

With fewer than 30 postings the panel shows only a sentence saying there are too few to break down. With none, the panel is hidden.

Wage benchmarks

your state wage benchmarks for career starts with "Annual wages across n of N metros · BLS OEWS, May year" (May 2024 in the current data). Each row is a metro area: Employment (workers in the career) and yearly pay at the 10th, 25th, 50th (Median (p50)), 75th and 90th percentiles. A dimmed row with "—" is one BLS withholds for confidentiality. The last row, Statewide / remote / unspecified, is the state as a whole. The footer explains percentiles: the 10th percentile is the pay 10% of workers earn less than, and so on. The panel is hidden when no metro has data.

More on sources and vintages: how the figures are produced.

Worked example

A counselor in Georgia looking at accounting for a student.

1. On Careers, with Georgia chosen, she types "CPA". The accountants and auditors career is at the top. She opens its undergraduate card.
2. The page reads "Accountants and Auditors in Georgia". The description panel lists common tasks, skills and the software accountants use. Typical education shows the most common level with its share of workers.
3. The credential section shows either Recommended Credential or Required Credential, depending on Georgia's records, with the issuing board for each row.
4. AI Outlook shows a label and a short reason. She opens About this rating to see the three-year table and the Sources: line naming the research publishers.
5. The survey pay card shows an entry figure and a median figure in dollars per year. If enough Georgia postings list pay, the advertised card and Why two numbers? appear below it, with advertised figures that are usually lower.
6. She sets Residency (cost basis) to In-state Georgia (the default), leaves Pathway as it is, clicks the Public chip and types "Atlanta" in City:. The table shrinks to public schools in Atlanta; Clear filters appears.
7. She sorts by Total Cost, lowest first, then clicks Calculate ROI → on one school. The ROI Calculator opens with that school, program and career chosen.
8. Back on the career page, the postings panel lists Georgia metros and top employers, and the wage benchmarks table shows pay by metro, highest median first.

Common questions

Why does a value show "—"?

The figure is not published for that career, school or metro, or BLS withholds it for confidentiality. In the rank columns, "—" means the school has no inputs from the three ranking sources.

Why is the advertised pay lower than the survey pay?

Postings often show the bottom of a pay band, and only some postings show pay at all. The survey covers what workers are actually paid. Both are shown so you can see the difference.

Why don't I see the advertised pay card?

It needs at least 30 postings with pay for this career in your state. Smaller careers and states often have fewer.

Why is there no credential section?

Your state has no license or credential on record for this career, or it is a senior role that is not entered through a credential.

In-state or out-of-state: which cost am I seeing?

In-state, unless you change Residency (cost basis). Schools that publish no out-of-state price keep the in-state figure.

Why is the AI Outlook, postings or wage table missing?

AI Outlook shows a "not yet available" line for careers without a rating. The postings panel is hidden when there are no postings, and the wage table when no metro has data. If all three are missing at once, you may have come in through an older link; open the career again from the Careers list.

Why does the table show graduate programs when I came in on an undergraduate link?

When a career has no programs at the level you came in on, the table shows every level rather than nothing.

Do my chips and boxes reset when I change a menu?

No. Changing Type of school, Pathway or Residency (cost basis) reloads the school list, and the highlighted chips, the city text and the name search are applied to it again. Use Clear filters and empty the boxes to see every school.

Why does "Last refreshed" change from day to day?

The postings sample is updated regularly, so counts, employers and advertised pay move as new postings arrive. Survey pay changes only once a year.

What this does NOT do

• It is not a job board. Posting counts are a sample, and you cannot apply from here.
• It is not advice. Pay, costs and AI ratings are estimates from published data, not guarantees.
• The AI Outlook is the same in every state and is not about you personally.
• School ranks are a published outside composite, not a judgement of fit for you.
• Total Cost leaves out the extra years needed elsewhere; scholarships and aid are not taken off.
• The page has no save button; to keep a run, use the ROI Calculator's save, or save the career's list from Degrees that lead here →. Nothing about you is stored, apart from the state you picked on this device.

Related

• Careers: finding a career and the credential search.
• Degrees for a career
• Non-degree routes for a career
• ROI Calculator
• Jobs Trends
• Compare careers
• Degree page
• My Reports
• Open the live page: Careers (pick a career there to open its page)