Methodology & sources

Regional figures. New York's 10 labor-market regions don't all appear as a single tidy level in the source data, so we aggregate county-level figures using NYSDOL's standard 10-region county definition. Regional unemployment is therefore not seasonally adjusted and may differ slightly from NYSDOL's own published regional numbers.

“Good-paying, growing” jobs. We tag an occupation this way when its statewide median wage is at or above the all-occupations median and it is projected to grow through 2032. This is our own plain rule — not NYSDOL's official “Opportunity Occupations” definition, which also weighs the education a job typically requires.

Projections are totals, not annual. Every projected change we show (for occupations and industries) is the total percent change over the projection period (2022–2032), not an annualized rate.

“Higher / lower-paying roles in the same field.” These are occupations in the same broad SOC field that pay more (or less) — a plain “same field” guide, not an O*NET skills-similarity score.

Job postings are not shown. Live openings come from the National Labor Exchange / NY Job Bank, which requires a data-use agreement and cannot be redisplayed in a public app. We link out to the Job Bank instead.