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Data / Occupation Explorer

Find the occupations worth a closer look.

Compare standardized occupation evidence for California and the MSA/CBSA labor markets where the projection geography is an exact match. Markets without defensible MSA-level occupation evidence are not published here.

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Occupation evidence

Current labor market · August 2026
Unemployment rate

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Labor force

Not seasonally adjusted

Employed

Resident employment

Unemployed

Resident unemployment

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Occupation outlook
Employment

Projected: —

Projected growth

Source-specific period

Total openings

Replacement + transfer + growth where applicable

Wage evidence

Measure stays source-specific

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What does this evidence support?

Demand

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Use this page to identify occupations worth deeper research. Workforce Wonkery does not infer a training gap or recommend a new program from occupation openings alone. Training recommendations are published only in separately researched, curated decision briefs.

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Compare with California

This comparison keeps the selected MSA/CBSA beside the California reference. No county, WDB, workforce-region, or neighboring-market values are substituted.

Labor-market occupation evidence comparison
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Wonkery Way: this explorer publishes California and exact-match MSA/CBSA occupation evidence only. Missing labor-market evidence remains missing, and an administrative or broader geography is never relabeled as an MSA estimate.