The Labor Market Insights tool, available through St. John’s University Career Services, provides real-time labor market data to help you explore career opportunities and make informed career decisions. Whether you’re preparing to graduate and begin your job search, seeking an internship, considering a career change, or just starting to explore potential career paths, this tool offers valuable insights for every stage of your professional journey.
Discover in-demand occupations, top employers, salary trends, required skills, projected job growth, and employment opportunities based on your interests and location. Use these insights to confidently plan your next steps and stay informed about today’s evolving job market.
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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
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