Career & education decision tools
Real labor market data, AI displacement risk, and honest ROI analysis — built for students, parents, and anyone choosing a path in an economy that's changing faster than the advice.
The toolkit
Each tool answers a different question you're probably already asking.
Enter your major, school cost, and career goals. Get a 40-year earnings projection, breakeven timeline, and AI displacement risk — all in one calculation.
Calculate now →Type any job — welder, nurse, software engineer, truck driver — and see US employment numbers, income ranges, how people entered the field, and AI risk.
Look up a career →Only 27% of graduates work in a field related to their major. See the gap across 16 fields — and understand what it means for your specific degree.
See the gap →Already mid-degree? Enter your major and year in school. Get specific skills, certifications, and a timeline to make your degree relevant in an AI economy.
Build my plan →Visualizing the unprecedented rise in underemployed graduates since 2000 — framed not as doom, but as context for what to add to survive and thrive.
Explore the data →Two paths. Same tools.
For students deciding on a major, parents evaluating whether a degree is worth the cost, and recent graduates figuring out what went wrong.
For anyone considering vocational, trade, or certification paths — where alignment rates are higher, debt is lower, and AI risk is often lower too.
"The degree still matters. Only the degree no longer does."
PathDecider is built on one belief: the problem isn't that college doesn't work — it's that college alone no longer works. Every tool on this site is designed to show you what to add, not whether to quit. The goal is always additive.
No signup. No email required. Just pick a tool and get a real answer.