This guide explains every page on Samantar: what it is for, how to use it step by step, what every control does and how to read every number. Each page below covers one feature or one panel. The menu on the left (or the Guide menu button on a phone) lists the same pages in the same order.
Samantar is free, needs no account and stores nothing about you. Its figures come from public federal and state sources and are estimates, not promises. Privacy and limits covers both.
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Home page & national overview
National overviewThe U.S. overview on the home page: headline numbers, fastest-growing and top-paying careers, real pay changes and jobs by industry.
Unemployment, hires, openings and quits chartThe national labor-market rate chart and its Time range control: what each line measures and where it comes from.
State pages
State pagesWhat a state page shows, how it differs from the national view, and how its links carry the state onward.
Headline numbersThe strip of headline figures at the top of a state page: what each number counts and where it comes from.
Top growing careersThe state’s fastest-growing careers from its long-term employment projections, and how to read them.
Unemployment trendThe state’s unemployment rate over recent months next to the U.S. rate, and why the latest month can change.
Top-paying careersThe state’s highest-paying careers by statewide median wage, and which careers are left out.
Most-hired careers right nowThe careers with the most openings in the state, and what sample or estimate stands behind the list.
Real-wage winners and losersCareers whose pay grew faster or slower than prices over about ten years, after inflation.
Careers
CareersFind a career by name or by a credential such as RN, CPA or CDL-A, then open its detail page.
A career’s detail pageEverything on a career’s page: pay, outlook, credentials, what the work involves, AI outlook and the schools that lead there.
Degrees for a careerThe degrees and schools that lead into a career, with cost and earnings for each path.
Degrees
DegreesFind a degree field, choose a level and open the list of schools that offer it.
A degree’s detail pageA degree’s schools, cost, graduate outcomes and careers, with the Level, Type and city filters.
A school’s programsOne school’s undergraduate and graduate programs and how to take one into the ROI Calculator.
ROI Calculator
Compare
Compare: picking a modeThe comparison modes and which one answers your question.
Compare careersPick up to five careers to compare side by side.
Compare degreesPick up to five degree fields, undergraduate, graduate or both, to compare side by side.
Compare non-degree pathwaysPick up to five certificate, license or direct-entry routes to compare side by side.
Reading comparison resultsThe results page for every comparison: leaders, charts, the full table and the schools for each choice.