CareerOneStop offers several Career Reports to help career explorers, job seekers, and others learn more about the job market:
What information do Career Reports show?
Highest-Paying Careers shows a list of careers with the highest median wages in the latest available wage data (currently this is May 2022). For each career, you’ll see:
- The official name. Click this link to view a full profile of information about this career.
- Median wages for May 2022, shown both hourly and yearly.
- Typical education shows the amount of education that most workers have when they enter the career
Fastest-Growing Careers and Careers with Declining Employment show lists of careers where employment is expected to either grow the fastest or shrink the most from 2020 (for states) or 2022 (for national) to 2030 (for states) or 2032 (for national). Note that growth is based on the expected percent change over those ten years, so these are not necessarily the careers expected to have the largest or smallest number of openings (for instance, a career with very few jobs can be expected to grow at a very high rate). For each career on these lists, you’ll see:
- The official occupation name. Click this link to view a full profile of information about this career.
- Employment, or the number of people employed in this career for 2020 (for states) or 2022 (for national), followed by the number expected to be employed in 2030 (for states) or 2032 (for national). If you see "not available", employment numbers for that career are not available for the location you have selected. Try selecting a larger area.
- Percent change, or the rate of employment growth expected over the ten years
- Earnings, shown by green dollar sign symbols representing four categories of average wages:
- 4 dollar signs ($$$$) = Very high (Greater than $66,460)
- 3 dollar signs ($$$) = High ($45,290 to $66,450)
- 2 dollar signs ($$) = Low ($34,770 to $45,290)
- 1 dollar sign ($) = Very low (Less than $34,760)
- Typical education, or the amount of education that most workers have when they enter the career
Careers with Largest Employment shows a list of careers with the largest number people employed. The numbers are shown for the latest year the data are available (currently, 2020 for states and 2021 for national). For each career on the list, you’ll see:
- The official occupation name. Click this link to view a full profile of information about this career.
- Employment, or the number of people employed in this career in 2020 (for states) or 2022 (for national). If you see "not available", employment numbers for that career are not available for the location you have selected. Try selecting a larger area.
- Earnings, shown by green dollar sign symbols representing four categories of average wages:
- 4 dollar signs ($$$$) = Very high (Greater than $66,460)
- 3 dollar signs ($$$) = High ($45,290 to $66,450)
- 2 dollar signs ($$) = Low ($34,770 to $45,290)
- 1 dollar sign ($) = Very low (Less than $34,760)
- Typical education, or the amount of education that most workers have when they enter the career
Careers with Most Openings shows a list of careers expected to have the most job openings from 2020 (for states) or 2021 (for national) to 2030 (for states) or 2031 (for national). For each career on the list, you’ll see:
- The official occupation name. Click this link to view a full profile of information about this career.
- Employment, or the number of people employed in this career in 2020 (for states) or 2022 (for national). If you see "not available", employment numbers for that career are not available for the location you have selected. Try selecting a larger area.
- Projected annual openings, or the average number of job openings expected in each year of the decade.
- Earnings, shown by green dollar sign symbols representing four categories of average wages:
- 4 dollar signs ($$$$) = Very high (Greater than $66,460)
- 3 dollar signs ($$$) = High ($45,290 to $66,450)
- 2 dollar signs ($$) = Low ($34,770 to $45,290)
- 1 dollar sign ($) = Very low (Less than $34,760)
- Typical education, or the amount of education that most workers have when they enter the career
You can view each of these lists for any state or for the United States as a whole. Select your preferred location in the Your Search box at upper left of any report.
Where does this information come from?
Data in these reports come from the U.S. Department of Labor.
State-level employment, percent change, and projected annual openings 2020-30 data come from Projections Central and each state's Labor Market Information office.
National employment, percent change, and projected annual openings data come from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections, 2022-32.
Earnings and wage data come from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) program May 2022 estimates. Wage estimates include base rate, cost-of-living allowances, guaranteed pay, hazardous-duty pay, incentive pay (e.g. commissions and production bonuses), and on-call pay. Wage estimates do not include back pay, jury duty pay, overtime pay, severance pay, shift differentials, nonproduction bonuses, and tuition reimbursements.
Typical education data come from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections program, Education and Training Data, Education and training assignments by detailed occupation, 2022. Typical education reflects the typical level of education that most workers need to enter the occupation. Occupations are assigned one of eight education levels.
For information about displaying any of this data on your own website, please visit CareerOneStop's Web API.
What can I do with these reports?
You can learn more about any career that you find on one of the Career Reports by clicking on the Occupation Titles.
You can also filter any of these lists by education level, using the links on the left-hand side of any report. This can help create lists that match your own education level or your future education plans.
Can I save my list of results?
To download and save your results in a document, click the Download button at the bottom of your results list, and choose from Excel, PDF, Word, or RTF formats.
To email or print your results, use the links at the bottom of the page.
Who can I contact for more help?
If you have questions about any of the schools you find listed, please find and use contact information on the school's website.
If you have questions or comments about how this tool works, please contact the CareerOneStop Service Center at info@careeronestop.org.