Career directory

Career directory: salary, outlook and fit for 1,741 US jobs

This directory holds 1,741 US occupations. 1,731 of them have a full profile page today with salary percentiles, state-by-state pay, growth projections and personality fit.

Built from BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025), BLS Employment Projections (2025–2035), the BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook (2025–2035 edition) and the O*NET 31.0 Database (August 2026). Last rebuilt October 15, 2026. No figure on this site is generated by an AI model.

Occupations covered
1,741
O*NET data-level detail
Full profile pages
1,731
More each tranche
With BLS wage data
1,735
BLS OEWS, May 2025
Openings a year
49,004,200
BLS EP, 2025–2035

Most searched

Most searched careers

Ranked by US monthly search volume for “[title] salary”.

  • Healthcare Practitioners and Technical

    Dental Hygienist

    $98,100median a year

    Most earn $75K to $126K

    +8.0%Associate'sHelps people
  • Healthcare Practitioners and Technical

    Anesthesiologist

    $391,490median a year

    Most earn $101K to $557K

    +3.6%DoctorateHelps people
  • Healthcare Practitioners and Technical

    Nurse Practitioner

    $132,300median a year

    Most earn $101K to $174K

    +41.0%Master'sHelps people
  • Healthcare Practitioners and Technical

    Physician Assistant

    $135,880median a year

    Most earn $99K to $190K

    +21.1%Master'sHelps people
  • Healthcare Practitioners and Technical

    Surgical Technologist

    $64,650median a year

    Most earn $46K to $97K

    +5.0%CertificateNo degree needed
  • Healthcare Practitioners and Technical

    Pharmacy Technician

    $45,750median a year

    Most earn $36K to $61K

    +6.4%High schoolNo degree needed
  • Healthcare Practitioners and Technical

    Physical Therapist

    $102,760median a year

    Most earn $77K to $135K

    +11.9%DoctorateHelps people
  • Transportation and Material Moving

    Flight Attendant

    $63,580median a year

    Most earn $35K to $136K

    +8.8%High schoolNo degree needed
  • Healthcare Support

    Medical Assistant

    $45,690median a year

    Most earn $36K to $59K

    +12.9%CertificateNo degree needed
  • Healthcare Practitioners and Technical

    Pharmacist

    $140,910median a year

    Most earn $99K to $174K

    +5.2%DoctorateHelps people

Fast-growing

Fastest-growing careers

Ranked by projected employment change.

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No degree needed

Highest-paying jobs without a degree

Entered with a high school diploma, a certificate or no formal credential.

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AI-resistant

Careers that hold up against AI

Low BLS AI exposure, ordered by our O*NET-based resilience score.

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Highest paying

The highest-paying careers

Ranked by national median wage.

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  • Healthcare Practitioners and Technical

    Pediatric Surgeon

    $559,030median a year

    Most earn $215K to $727K

    +2.0%Doctorate
  • Healthcare Practitioners and Technical

    Cardiologist

    $496,010median a year

    Most earn $107K to $712K

    +4.8%Doctorate
  • Healthcare Practitioners and Technical

    Radiologist

    $420,860median a year

    Most earn $89K to $594K

    +3.4%DoctorateHelps people
  • Healthcare Practitioners and Technical

    Anesthesiologist

    $391,490median a year

    Most earn $101K to $557K

    +3.6%DoctorateHelps people
  • Healthcare Practitioners and Technical

    Emergency Medicine Physician

    $335,550median a year

    Most earn $104K to $496K

    +3.2%DoctorateHelps people
  • Healthcare Practitioners and Technical

    Dermatologist

    $328,730median a year

    Most earn $103K to $579K

    +6.8%DoctorateHelps people
  • Healthcare Practitioners and Technical

    Pathologist

    $312,400median a year

    Most earn $93K to $450K

    +4.8%Doctorate
  • Healthcare Practitioners and Technical

    Prosthodontist

    $311,180median a year

    Most earn $104K to $345K

    +5.8%DoctorateHelps people

All 1,731 profiles

Browse every career profile

All 1,731 occupations with a full profile page, searchable by job title or alternate title and filterable by field, pay, growth and the kind of work. Every profile carries BLS pay and outlook data plus an O*NET personality fit. The bank holds 1,741 occupations in total; the rest publish in later tranches.

Each card's bar shows pay from the lowest-paid 10% to the top 10%, on one scale; the dashed line is the US median for all jobs. Pay: BLS OEWS, May 2025. Growth: BLS EP, 2025–2035.

1731 careers

Business and Financial Operations

A&R Representative

$82,890median a year

Most earn $48K to $285K

+9.7%Bachelor'sRemote-friendly
Business and Financial Operations

Accountant

$83,680median a year

Most earn $56K to $144K

+5.0%Bachelor'sRemote-friendly
Architecture and Engineering

Acoustical Consultant

$104,110median a year

Most earn $74K to $164K

+11.2%Bachelor'sRemote-friendly
Computer and Mathematical

Actuary

$130,000median a year

Most earn $79K to $215K

+9.2%Bachelor'sRemote-friendly
Healthcare Practitioners and Technical

Acupuncturist

$76,040median a year

Most earn $39K to $161K

+8.6%Master'sHelps people
Healthcare Practitioners and Technical

Acute Care Nurse

$97,550median a year

Most earn $69K to $137K

+5.6%Bachelor'sHelps people
Business and Financial Operations

ADA Coordinator

$80,730median a year

Most earn $48K to $134K

+3.8%Bachelor'sRemote-friendly
Sales and Related

Advertising Sales Agent

$64,820median a year

Most earn $35K to $146K

−7.2%High schoolNo degree needed
Architecture and Engineering

Aerospace Engineer

$134,960median a year

Most earn $87K to $206K

+8.3%Bachelor's
Healthcare Practitioners and Technical

Aesthetic Nurse

$97,550median a year

Most earn $69K to $137K

+5.6%Bachelor'sHelps people
Business and Financial Operations

Affiliate Marketing Manager

$78,760median a year

Most earn $43K to $155K

+7.0%Bachelor'sRemote-friendly

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Lists

Careers by field and by what you want from work

Each list is regenerated from source data on every refresh, with the qualifying rule stated in plain English on the page.

By interest

Careers by what you love

Lists built around a subject people love, including the specialty careers BLS counts inside broader occupations and the unusual jobs most people have never heard of.

College majors

Careers by college major

Where each degree actually leads, with the same BLS pay, outlook and entry-education data attached to every destination. Lists are ordered by how common the destination is, not by what it pays, and mark the ones that need graduate study. Browse all 33 majors.

Personality

Careers by personality type

Each occupation carries an O*NET interest profile; these pages rank the closest matches for each type and explain the mapping honestly.

Your situation

Careers by life stage and working style

These lists rank work environments rather than people, using the O*NET Work Context ratings for autonomy, public contact, conflict, time pressure and physical load alongside BLS pay, openings and entry requirements. Each page names the exact measures it uses and what it deliberately ignores.

The data

AI, pay, safety and who does the work

Questions the career profiles answer one job at a time, answered across every occupation: from the BLS AI exposure categories, the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, the Current Population Survey and BLS wage data joined to BEA price levels.

Side by side

Two careers, side by side

Every figure in these comparisons is a published federal statistic with its release year attached, and none of the pages names a winner. Built only where both sides are separate SOC occupations with separate BLS wages, so no page compares one wage figure with itself.

Changing careers

Changing career from where you are now

A to Z

Every career profile (1,731)