Sources
Every figure on this platform carries a small numbered marker. The same number means the same dataset everywhere, and this page is the register. Tap any marker on any page for the short version; this is the full one.
1. JSA occupation profiles (February 2026)
Jobs and Skills Australia's occupation profiles: employment size and median weekly full-time earnings (drawn from the ABS Employee Earnings and Hours survey). Earnings marked with an asterisk are annualised by multiplying weekly earnings by 52 and describe the typical established worker across all career stages, never a starting salary.
2. JSA employment projections (to May 2035)
Projected employment growth per occupation, JSA/Victoria University model, May 2025 base. Projections are model outputs, not forecasts.
3. JSA Occupation Shortage List (2025)
National and state shortage ratings. S means shortage, NS no shortage, with regional variants in the source.
4. ABS Census 2021 (G51 and qualifications)
What workers in an occupation group studied (field of highest qualification) and the share holding a bachelor degree or above. The field mix is published at occupation MAJOR-GROUP grain: on a specific occupation it describes the broad group, not the exact role, and pages say so wherever it is used.
5. QILT Graduate Outcomes Survey (GOS 2025)
Median full-time salaries and employment rates for NEW graduates, 4 to 6 months after completing, by study area and level. These are the honest "starting out" figures: study-area medians, not occupation-specific salaries. QILT data is used under its attribution conditions; the on-page legend is that attribution.
6. QILT GOS-Longitudinal (2025)
The same graduate cohorts roughly three years out: where starting salaries head next.
7. ComparED RMIT overlay (2025)
RMIT-specific graduate outcome figures from ComparED, shown beside the national medians where captured.
8 to 12. Classification spines
The plumbing that makes the joins honest rather than data you read directly: 8 ANZSCO 2022 (occupation catalogue), 9 ABS alternative titles (the everyday job names search understands), 10 OSCA 2024 and 11 its ANZSCO correspondence, 12 ASCED 2001 (fields of education).
13. SEEK advertised salaries and role reviews (July 2026)
Median advertised salary (and range) for the matching SEEK role, from SEEK's explore-careers pages, plus the job-satisfaction rating from SEEK role reviews. These are advertised-pay figures for roles being hired now on seek.com.au, not earned-wage statistics, and SEEK's role grain can cover several related occupations. An occupation shows a SEEK figure only where its link to a SEEK role passed the validated mapping (exact title or official alternative title; ambiguous or catch-all occupations are left unmapped rather than guessed). Satisfaction ratings come from self-selected reviewers; tap the marker beside the rating for the review count. Source: SEEK (seek.com.au).
The RMIT catalogue
Programs, subjects, prerequisites and offerings come from the public RMIT Handbook and timetable. Only official RMIT systems are authoritative: always confirm on the RMIT Handbook and Enrolment Online before enrolling.
The validated maps and fit scores
Where a subject links to an occupation, or an occupation to a study area, the link passes through validated mapping tables built by rerunnable scripts with committed whole-set proofs: a link is either validated against the official catalogues or it is not shown. Fit scores are deterministic: the same inputs produce the same score everywhere, and tapping any score shows exactly what produced it.
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