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Labor Market Insights is an interactive tool embedded throughout our website that provides real‑time labor market data to help students, faculty, staff, and alumni explore career pathways and workforce trends. Powered by Lightcast and integrated through uConnect, the tool connects education to real‑world career outcomes by showing demand, skills, salaries, and employers for thousands of occupations.
Purpose
The purpose of Labor Market Insights is to make high‑quality labor market data accessible and easy to understand—supporting informed academic, career, and workforce decisions across our university community.
With Labor Market Insights, users can search by occupation, industry, or location to view:
Job demand and employment trends (historical and projected)
Average annual earnings and compensation ranges
Top employers hiring for specific roles
Required education levels
In‑demand technical and transferable skills
Common job titles within each career field
Students & Alumni
Explore career options connected to majors and interests
Understand job outlook, salary expectations, and skill requirements
Prepare for job searches, interviews, and skill‑building experiences
Faculty & Staff
Integrate workforce data into advising, coursework, and program conversations
Support career‑ready learning and data‑informed guidance
Encourage meaningful connections between curriculum and career pathways
There are two tabs above the search fields. Choose which search you want to engage:
Left tab: “Find Career Data by Selecting Keywords”
On the left, use the “Search…” field box to enter any occupation title or key word. A list of suggested occupations that match your search will auto-populate and you can scroll through it to identify the career title you want to explore.
Optional: The middle drop-down allows you to narrow your search by state. You can also leave it on “Nationwide” for a full picture. If a state is chosen, the right drop-down allows you narrow further by county.
Right tab: “Filtering for Industry and Occupation”
From the left drop-down, choose a career cluster or industry you would like to search
Next, choose an occupation within that cluster or industry
Optional: The middle-right drop-down menu allows you to narrow your search by state. You can also leave it on “Nationwide” for a full picture. If a state is chosen, the right drop-down allows you narrow further by county.
When you have identified an occupation, the career profile will load below the widget, displaying tasks, responsibilities, employment trends, top employers, education levels, salary information, skills and competencies, and sample job titles reported.
Get started below:
Find career data by selecting keywordsKeyword Search
or, by filtering for industry and occupationIndustry Search
First, choose an industry of interest, then filter for occupation. (If you'd like to see data for a specific location only, filter by state.)
Type in a keyword to select a relevant occupation. (If you'd like to see data for a specific location only, filter by state.)
Occupation Description
Employment Trends
The number of jobs in the career for the past two years, the current year, and projections for the next 10 years. Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs. Sources include Emsi industry data, staffing patterns, and OES data.
Top Employers
These companies are currently hiring for .
Education Levels
The educational attainment percentage breakdown for a career (e.g. the percentage of people in the career who hold Bachelor’s Degrees vs. Associate Degrees). Educational attainment levels are provided by O*NET.
Annual Earnings
Earnings figures are based on OES data from the BLS and include base rate, cost of living allowances, guaranteed pay, hazardous-duty pay, incentive pay (including commissions and bonuses), on-call pay, and tips.
Technical Skills
A list of hard skills associated with a given career ordered by the number of unique job postings which ask for those skills.
Core Competencies
The skills for the career. The "importance" is how relevant the ability is to the occupation: scale of 1-5. The "level" is the proficiency required by the occupation: scale of 0-100. Results are sorted by importance first, then level.
Job Titles
A list of job titles for all unique postings in a given career, sorted by frequency.
This page includes information from the O*NET 25.1 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor,
Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of
USDOL/ETA. uConnect in partnership with Lightcast has modified all or some of this information. USDOL/ETA has not
approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications.
