Gallup-Amazon’s Careers of the Future Index – Information and perspective for career path

Gallup has partnered with Amazon Future Engineer, Amazon’s global philanthropic computer science education program, to create the Careers of the Future Index (CFI). The public database aims to provide young adults and their advisers with transparent and useful data about the economic prospects of careers in the United States, and to inform industry and other stakeholders looking to invest in young adults’ career pathways. The CFI references US Census Bureau occupational classifications to provide a summary measure of each career’s economic prospects. The CFI combines the most recent career-level data on income, job growth, job vacancies per job seeker and automation risk to convey the economic strengths and weaknesses of various career paths. The goal is to highlight careers that both pay well and are likely to be available to applicants – now and in the future.

The Careers of the Future Index (CFI) is designed to give future job seekers the information and perspective they need to choose a career path. The index ranks each career based on a weighted average of income, job availability, job growth and resistance to automation. The CFI database also provides information on trends in racial and gender diversity, as well as the career prospects of adjacent jobs.

This report summarizes the methods used to create the Gallup-Amazon CFI database and describes insights stemming from it. A more detailed description of the methods used to construct the index is provided in the background section of this report.

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