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Original analysis and evidence-conscious publications about professional fit, movement, competition, matching, and responsible career technology.129 public items · page 10 of 11
MyTopMatch Original Research
Management Pay Differentials Ran From 1.75x to 2.70x Across Major U.S. Sectors
A MyTopMatch analysis of May 2025 BLS data found different leaders for the proportional management wage differential, the estimated dollar gap, and the highest management wage.MyTopMatch Original Research
Four Occupations Had the Most Robust State Employment Footprints
Mail carriers, retail supervisors, registered nurses, and cashiers stayed in the top ten across every reliability, geography, and weighting test used for this edition.MyTopMatch Original Research
A Promising Career-Mobility Model Is Not Yet Ready to Recommend Job Changes
MyTopMatch tested a transparent occupational-transition model on 1,021 fully held-out worker transitions. It failed four of eight preregistered analytical release gates, so rankings remain withheld.MyTopMatch Original Research
Why Public Licensing Data Cannot Yet Support a National Career-Access Ranking
A MyTopMatch audit of 47,573 occupational-license records found useful public signals alongside decisive gaps that prevent a definitive national career-access ranking.MyTopMatch Original Research
Career Rankings Can Shift by Dozens of Places When the Formula Changes
A MyTopMatch stress test of 747 occupations found a median 69-position rank interval across 2,000 reasonable weight variations.Research
Introducing MyTopMatch Research: A New Evidence Base for Career Decisions
Original MyTopMatch analysis of careers, compensation, education, opportunity, and mobility, built from authoritative U.S. labor-market data.Career research
Want High Pay Without Living at Work? These 10 Careers Have an Incredible Pay-to-Effort Ratio
Salary is only half the story. MyTopMatch compares ten high-paying careers by workweek, pressure, physical demands and freedom to make decisions.Management & Leadership Economics
Management's Median Wage Was 2.48 Times the U.S. All-Occupation Median
The descriptive occupation-group comparison is substantial; it is not an individual promotion-return estimate.Geographic Opportunity
Washington, California, and Virginia Formed a Weight-Stable State Tier for Software Developers
A matched-year analysis combines employment scale, occupational concentration, and purchasing-power-adjusted pay.Requirements-to-Pay
Education and Experience Categories Track Higher Occupational Pay
A family-adjusted analysis finds strong occupation-level pay associations; causal returns and residual occupation rankings remain outside the evidence.Opportunity-to-Barrier Index