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Occupation Explorer

Reading Annual Openings: openings are growth plus replacements, and Lightcast floors the growth term at zero for each occupation, county and year before adding anything up. That is deliberate, so a shrinking occupation does not cancel out a growing one. Two consequences. Openings will always be at least as large as net job change, so a gap between them is arithmetic, not an error. And do not re-add openings across occupations or years and compare that to a figure computed at the higher level, because the zero floor makes the sum run high. Replacements also count only workers permanently leaving an occupation, so ordinary job changing inside the county is invisible here.

Hiring & Turnover · Hamilton County QWI 2019–2024

Education Pipeline

Educational attainment of Hamilton County adults 25+. Source: Census ACS B15003 (5-year, 2019–2023).

Industry Staffing Lookup

Select a NAICS sector to see the significant occupations (≥1% of industry employment) with wages and growth. Useful for answering "If I land a NAICS 62 business, what SOCs will they hire?"

Industries That Hire This Occupation · Where does this role get hired?

The reverse of the lookup above: pick an occupation to see every covered industry whose staffing pattern lists it as a significant occupation (≥1% of industry employment). Answers "if we grow the pipeline for occupation X, which industries absorb it?"

Wage Curves · BLS OES May 2025 · Indianapolis MSA

Full wage distribution (10th / 25th / median / 75th / 90th percentile) for 630 occupations across the Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood MSA. Hamilton County employers typically pay a premium of 10–20% above MSA median for skilled occupations.
Reading the vintage: BLS OES is a three-year rolling survey published about a year after its reference date, so “May 2025” names the reference period rather than a month of measurement. Each figure pools roughly three years of survey panels. Treat it as a recent-past baseline, not today’s going rate, and expect current openings in a tight occupation to sit above the band. Suppressed cells stay blank: we do not impute what BLS withheld for respondent confidentiality.

Job Posting Demand · Lightcast 12-month trailing

Real-time hiring demand across Hamilton County. Top occupations by posting volume, top skills employers are asking for, and education/experience requirements.
Total vs Unique: the same opening is often advertised on several boards at once. Total counts every advertisement; Unique counts the openings left after duplicates are removed. Across these occupations Total runs about 2.8x Unique and as high as 5.2x, so read Unique as the demand figure and treat Total as advertising volume. The skills, industry, city and monthly-trend figures below are advertisement counts with no deduplicated equivalent, so compare them to each other rather than to a headcount.

Talent Supply · Lightcast online professional profiles

The supply side beside the demand above: online professional profiles by occupation, with median tenure, experience, and a supply-vs-demand ratio computed within the selected geography. A directional supply signal, not a census.

Outbound Career Paths · Where do workers go from here?

For a source occupation, which other occupations do workers advance to (next-step), come from (feeder), or have transferable skills with (compatible)? Score 0–100 normalized across Lightcast's relevance and compatibility indices.

Career Ladder Network · Lightcast ladders + v1.8 pathway hops

Unified force-directed graph that merges two data sources. Lightcast career ladders (39 source occupations × next-step / feeder / compatible destinations) are overlaid with the v1.8 universal pathway graph hops that route every gap SOC to a $70K+ aligned destination (O*NET Related, O*NET skill similarity, same-major-group lateral, and CIP-corroborated bridges). Node color = SOC major group. Node size = degree. Aligned destinations get a gold ring. Click a node to open its Occupation Detail modal.

Inbound Career Feeders · Who can I recruit for this role?

Answers the reverse question: "If I'm hiring for X, where is that talent naturally coming from?" Shows every occupation whose career ladder lists this SOC as a next-step or skills-compatible destination, enriched with the feeder occupation's Hamilton County jobs + wages (so you can size the recruiting pool) + salary differential (the promotion uplift workers would get).

Rising & Declining Skills · 10 clusters · 12-month Lightcast trend

Skills showing the largest posting-volume changes over the past year, grouped by sector cluster. Pick a cluster to see rising (hot) vs. declining (cold) skills. The overview below ranks all 10 clusters by momentum · where skills demand is shifting fastest.

Education Trend · Lightcast 2019 → 2030 projection

Lightcast's projection of Hamilton County's adult population by educational attainment, 2019 baseline vs. 2030 projection. Bachelor's+ holders projected to grow faster than any other segment · reinforcing Hamilton's knowledge-economy profile.

Demographics Trend · Lightcast 2019 → 2031

Hamilton County's population by age cohort race & ethnicity gender , 2019 baseline vs. 2031 projection · Lightcast year-over-year snapshot series.

Registered Apprenticeships · Lightcast 2020 → 2025 · 5-county region

Active registered apprenticeships by occupation across the 5-county region, a leading indicator of the earn-and-learn talent pipeline for the skilled trades and beyond.

Migration Flows · Lightcast taxpayer migration

Where Hamilton County gains and loses working residents: county-to-county taxpayer migration, a second lens beside IRS SOI.

Target Sectors · Lightcast clusters + derived industry ranking

Hamilton County's strongest industry clusters (Lightcast 0–100 cluster score) and a derived target-industry ranking combining employment concentration, 2019–2026 growth, shift-share competitiveness, and earnings. Regional context: Hamilton County vs. Indianapolis MSA vs. Indiana.

Top Target Industries · composite of concentration, growth, competitiveness, earnings

Compensation Percentiles · Lightcast wage distribution

Full 10th–90th percentile annual-wage distribution for selected occupations — Hamilton County vs. national, with cost-of-living adjustment where available.

Wage Curve Compare · 0 occupations

Overlay wage curves for occupations you've added from the Occupation Detail modal. Useful for comparing tiers of a career ladder, or benchmarking adjacent roles.

Commute Flows

Where Hamilton County's workforce comes from (inflow) and where residents commute to (outflow). Source: Census LEHD LODES 2023.

Community Profile

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Commute & Labor Shed

Industry Cluster Density

Cost-of-Living Advantage

Migration Pipeline

School District Quality

Small Business Lending (CRA)

Workforce Availability by Industry

TIF Revenue Projection

Commercial Market Tightness

292-County Competitive Benchmarking