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Understand skills and place
Skills & Credentials Explorer
What credentials, degrees, and hard competencies are worth here: CDL to CPA, welding certificate to bachelor's-by-field, each with the gate, the pay, and whether the state funds it.
Built from Credential and degree returns joined to the gate each one requires and whether the state funds it
Answers the question a candidate and a hiring manager both have and rarely ask together: what does this credential cost, what does it open, and who pays for it.
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Read it honestly: the clock-hour gate is the real cost in time; a
Pell / Workforce-Ready-Grant badge means the state may pay for it. Wage lift is computed
from local occupation medians, a range, never a promise.
Field of study
Level
Years
Earn yr 1
Earn yr 5
Conditional prices. Each figure is the market wage lift per +1 O*NET
level of that competency, holding the rest of the skill bundle fixed (ridge,
employment-weighted, all US metros). A negative reads "low-priced inside its bundle", not
"worthless", the same care-penalty pattern the durable-skills model shows.
Sources: O*NET 28.0 (CC BY 4.0), BLS OES May 2025,
Census PSEO (Indiana graduate wage records), College Scorecard. Public data only, no Lightcast.
Aggregate estimates, cited as ranges, not individual guarantees.
