One place for all five compare tools. Pick a tab, then pick up to four items to see published figures side by side, in the order you choose. Nothing is ranked or scored: the numbers describe groups and areas, not any one person, and a higher figure is not automatically better. Every figure comes from a U.S. government source named under the table.
- Schools. Up to four colleges: cost, net price, admissions, graduation, earnings and debt.
- Majors. Up to four fields of study: degrees awarded, earnings and debt for graduates.
- Careers. Up to four careers: typical pay, expected job growth, education and training.
- Places. Up to four counties, cities or ZIP areas: pay by education, rent, income and jobs.
- States. Up to four states: pay by education, unemployment, price levels, college costs.
Pick up to four schools and see their published figures side by side. Columns stay in the order you choose; MajorPays does not rank, score or highlight schools. Schools differ in mission, size and who they enroll, so a difference in one number is not a measure of quality. A dash means the figure is not published or is withheld for that school.
Sources: U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard (type, retention, earnings and debt; licensed under Creative Commons Attribution, https://data.ed.gov/dataset/college-scorecard-all-data-files; MajorPays selected and reorganized the figures and the Department has not approved or endorsed this presentation) and National Center for Education Statistics, IPEDS (enrollment, charges, net price via the College Affordability and Transparency Center, admissions, graduation rates, staffing, faculty pay and finance) and the National Science Foundation, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Higher Education Research and Development Survey (research spending); each row names its source, and the years differ by measure and by school. Where several campuses share one federal school ID, the Scorecard reports one set of earnings for the group, and the row says so. Earnings and debt describe students who received federal aid and are not a forecast for any one student. MajorPays selected and reorganized these figures; none of the agencies named has approved or endorsed this presentation. MajorPays does not provide advice. See Data sources and How MajorPays works.
Pick up to four fields of study (each at a degree level) and see published figures side by side. Columns stay in the order you choose; MajorPays does not rank, score or highlight majors. Fields at different degree levels (certificate, associate, bachelor’s, master’s) are not comparable, so use the level filter. A dash means the figure is not available.
Sources: U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard field-of-study earnings and debt (licensed under Creative Commons Attribution; graduates who received federal student aid, four years after graduation; MajorPays’ selection: fields reported by at least 10 schools); U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025) for careers linked to a field in the federal CIP-SOC crosswalk, which links classifications and does not show what graduates actually do; U.S. National Science Foundation, National Survey of College Graduates 2023 (broad field groups). MajorPays selected and reorganized these figures; none of these agencies has approved or endorsed this presentation. Figures describe groups of graduates, not any one person, and say nothing about how much a school added. MajorPays does not provide advice. See Data sources.
Pick up to four careers and see published figures side by side. Columns stay in the order you choose; MajorPays does not rank, score or highlight careers. A dash means the figure is not available (the Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish wages for some occupations, such as military ones).
Sources: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025, national) and Employment Projections (2025 to 2035); O*NET 31.0 Database, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA; MajorPays has modified all or some of this information, and USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications. Wages describe all workers in an occupation nationwide, not any one person or place; for a specialty that shares an occupation group with others, BLS publishes one figure for the group. MajorPays selected and reorganized these figures; neither agency has approved or endorsed this presentation. MajorPays does not provide advice. See Data sources.
Pick up to four counties, cities or ZIP areas and see their published figures side by side. Columns stay in the order you choose; MajorPays does not rank, score or highlight places. A dash means the figure is not published for that kind of place, is withheld, or is too uncertain to show (see the notes below).
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year estimates (earnings by education, earnings by occupation group and by industry, income, rent, home value, rent burden, commutes, age, broadband, health insurance, home ownership, poverty; earnings, income, rent and home values are shown only when their margin of error is at most 20%, and shares only when it is at most 7 percentage points; median household income and home value are also left blank where the published figure is the Census Bureau's top code of $250,001 or $2,000,001, which is a limit and not a measured value); U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (county unemployment, 2024); Census County Business Patterns (jobs per 100 residents); U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (income per person); Census SAIPE (county poverty); U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (fair market rent); Internal Revenue Service (ZIP income); U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages 2025 (county pay per job); U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency, House Price Index (county price change, computed by MajorPays). City and county measures cover different populations and years, so compare like with like. MajorPays selected and reorganized these figures; none of these agencies has approved or endorsed this presentation. Figures describe areas as a whole, not any person in them. MajorPays does not provide advice. See Data sources.
Pick up to four states (or the United States as a whole) and see published figures side by side. Columns stay in the order you choose; MajorPays does not rank, score or highlight states. A dash means the figure is not available.
Sources: pay and unemployment by education are MajorPays’ own estimates from U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 2024 1-year microdata (pay: full-time, year-round workers ages 25 to 64; unemployment: the share of the civilian labor force ages 25 to 64 that is unemployed; the Census Bureau is credited only as the source of the original data); price levels: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities 2024; college costs: medians across a state’s four-year public and private nonprofit colleges (each counted once, at least 3 colleges) computed by MajorPays from U.S. Department of Education IPEDS 2024-25 published charges (provisional), shown as sticker prices; union membership: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Population Survey 2025; job openings, hires and quits: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, 12-month averages (model-based, revised). Pay per job: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages 2025; median annual wage by major occupation group: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (employees, as published; values BLS withholds or tops out are left blank); home price change: U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency state House Price Index (computed by MajorPays; a change, not a price level). The bachelor’s premium and the price-adjusted pay are MajorPays’ calculations. Survey estimates carry sampling error, which is larger for small states and for small groups such as the least-educated in a small state; college-cost medians need at least 3 colleges of a kind in the state, so some cells are dashes and the United States column does not have them. MajorPays selected and reorganized these figures; none of these agencies has approved or endorsed this presentation. Figures describe states as a whole, not any person in them. MajorPays does not provide advice. See Data sources.