How to Find Higher Paying Jobs: Try the Occupational Mobility Explorer

Key takeaways

• The OME tool helps build career pathways by identifying links between a user’s current position and similar, but higher-paying jobs in the same geographical area.
• The tool provides searchable data about occupations, the skills required for them, and the wages they pay, tailored to specific regions.

Video summary

Cleveland Fed education outreach coordinator Elle Benak-Dammarell explains the Occupational Mobility Explorer, a job-finding tool created by the Federal Reserve Banks of Cleveland and Philadelphia to help users find better-paying positions based on skills they already have or can readily acquire.

Full transcript

Are you thinking about jobs or transferable skills, or maybe interested in career exploration, but not sure where to start? Or you like your current position, but you want to start planning for your future?

The Occupational Mobility Explorer Tool developed by the Philadelphia and Cleveland Federal Reserve Banks provides information on career pathways within the US labor market.

To utilize the tool, start by choosing a US location and job title. Build a career path by exploring the skills needed for that job and how they overlap with skills needed for similar roles, potentially with higher pay in the same local job market.

Or start with a desired destination occupation and trace a potential career path backwards by exploring necessary skills needed for that dream occupation and connecting to other jobs along that career ladder.

The OME tool will also provide resources to help you search for jobs in your area and build a skill-based resume.

The tool also provides relevant data based off your chosen US location, such as the desired skills for that metropolitan area and potential median wage, and how in-demand those careers are.

Visit the link in our bio to start planning your future today.