Career Change Finder is built only on public data. This page lists every source, what we use it for and the license that applies. Last checked: October 2026.
Sources at a glance
| Data | Source | Used for | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| Occupations, skills, knowledge, work activities, interests, work context, work styles, education, Job Zones, related occupations | O*NET 31.0 Database, USDOL/ETA | Career profiles, match scores, lists | CC BY 4.0 |
| O*NET Interest Profiler Short Form (60 items) | O*NET Career Exploration Tools, USDOL/ETA | Free Career Test, College Major Quiz | CC BY-ND 4.0 |
| Big-Five Factor Markers (50 items) | International Personality Item Pool (IPIP) | Big Five Personality Test, College Major Quiz | Public domain |
| Pay and employment, national and by state; pay by ownership; pay by industry | BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 | Pay, salary pages, government and oil and gas pages | Public domain |
| Worker ages (Table 11b) and telework (Table 62) | BLS Current Population Survey, 2025 annual averages | "Career change at 30, 40, 50" and remote work pages | Public domain |
| Licensing and training facts quoted on some pages | BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook | Notes on nursing, teaching, accounting, pilots and doctors | Public domain |
| Majors linked to careers | NCES CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 crosswalk | Majors, College Major Quiz | U.S. government work |
| Pilot certificate requirements | Federal Aviation Administration | Note on the pilot pages | U.S. government work |
Remote work estimates follow the method of Dingel, J. I. and Neiman, B. (2020), "How many jobs can be done at home?", Journal of Public Economics 189, applied by us to O*NET 31.0.
Required credits
O*NET Database. This site includes information from the O*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. Career Change Finder has modified all or some of this information. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications.
O*NET Career Exploration Tools. This site includes information from the O*NET Career Exploration Tools by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY-ND 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. We use the Interest Profiler items, answer scale and scoring without changes. See the O*NET Career Exploration Tools license.
IPIP. The IPIP items and scales are in the public domain and can be used for any purpose without permission. We use the official wording and order of the 50-item Big-Five Factor Markers.
Bureau of Labor Statistics. BLS publications are in the public domain; BLS asks that it be cited as the source, which we do on every page that shows its data. See the BLS copyright information.
NCES and FAA. Works of the U.S. federal government are not subject to copyright in the United States.
What we add
Match scores, career lists, short job names and the written text on our pages are our own work, built from the sources above with the rules on our Methodology page. None of the agencies above has reviewed or endorsed them.
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