About Career Compass

Career Compass lets you filter occupations by the education typically needed to enter them, by the training needed after entry, and by wages and expected job growth. All figures come from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (wages and ten-year employment projections) and the O*NET database from the Department of Labor, and they describe the occupation across the country, not a particular job or employer. Use the filters to narrow a long list, and then open an occupation for its tasks, skills, pay by state and the degrees that lead to it. Occupations are listed without ranking. Read how to use the numbers on majors and careers.