About Career Atlas USA

Career Atlas USA helps people explore careers, salaries and education paths across the United States using only official government data — no scraped numbers, no AI-generated facts, no fake reviews.

Where the data comes from

Every figure on this site traces back to one of five free, public U.S. government or federally funded sources: the Bureau of Labor Statistics (wages, employment, and job growth projections), O*NET (skills and job descriptions), the U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard (schools and program outcomes), NCES (the crosswalk between fields of study and careers), and the Bureau of Economic Analysis (regional cost-of-living data). See /sources for the full list with links and release dates.

What we add on top of that data

The Bureau of Labor Statistics, O*NET, College Scorecard and BEA each publish excellent raw data, but none of them connect the dots between each other. Career Atlas USA does that: pairing a career’s salary with the cost of living where you’d actually earn it, linking a career to the specific school programs that lead to it, and combining salary, growth and cost of living into a single Opportunity Score (see methodology) — all clearly labeled as our own calculation, never mixed in with the official numbers.

What we don’t do

• We never invent or estimate a number that isn’t actually published by our sources.
• We don’t use AI to generate salary figures, statistics, or facts.
• We don’t accept payment to rank a school, career, or program more favorably.
• We don’t post job listings — this is not a job board.

Questions or corrections? See /contact.