The Earth Awaits

This site, The Earth Awaits, helps students understand what it really costs to live in different cities by building personalized monthly budgets based on your income, lifestyle, family size, and housing needs. It pulls fresh, crowdsourced cost‑of‑living data nightly for over 600 cities, then breaks down expenses for housing, food, transport, and entertainment. or anyone learning about money management or preparing to negotiate job offers, it’s a practical way to see how salary changes affect your budget—and where your money will go depending on where you live. Students can even tweak expense categories and lifestyle choices to test different cost scenarios.

Job Market DataIn partnership with

Are you looking to use real-time job market data to make informed decisions about your future career path, explore relevant salary data, or identify the skills you need to build or market to get your next role? Use the following tool to explore your options.

There are two ways to navigate this tool:

Keyword Search: Search for the title of the job you’re looking to pursue, or skills you may have that could be relevant for a particular career path.
Narrow Down by Industry + Occupation: If you have a general sense of the industry you’d like to pursue, you can narrow down the occupations within a given industry to help you decide.

Find career data by selecting keywords Keyword Search

or, by filtering for industry and occupation Industry Search

Type in a keyword to select a relevant occupation. (If you'd like to see data for a specific location only, filter by state.)

The Earth Awaits

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