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The job descriptions on this page are rewritten in simpler words. They are written as a list rather than as sentences, and with no “they” in front of them, because the government’s task statements are written the same way — Rescue survivors from burning buildings, not They rescue survivors. The job title at the top of the card is the subject, for our line and for theirs. Underneath every one of them we show the U.S. government’s exact sentence, word for word, so you can check the rewrite yourself. The rule we write to is to simplify only — never to add a fact, and never to drop one, that the government sentence contains. We do not ask you to take that on trust. An outside audit of these rewrites in August 2026 found thirteen lines that had quietly dropped something the source said, and all thirteen were corrected. Both sentences are on this page so that the next thirteen can be found the same way.
Why we rewrite here and not everywhere. Our middle school page shows the government’s task statements word for word. Those statements measure at about a ninth grade reading level, which is not a reasonable thing to put in front of an eight-year-old. The plain lines on this page measure at about a sixth grade level on the same scale, and the sentences are short — the score is now driven almost entirely by long words like surgery, equipment and astrophysics, which are the government’s own words for what the job is. Earlier versions of this page scored lower, and an audit in August 2026 showed why: some of them had been made easy by quietly narrowing what the source said. Where readability and the source pull against each other, the source wins and we tell you the number instead of chasing it.
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Where the numbers come from. O*NET 30.3 Database and U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. How many people do each job, and what they are paid, comes from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Pay is the median: half the people in that job are paid more and half are paid less. The Bureau counts people employed by an organisation and does not count people who work for themselves, so fields with many self-employed workers — music, acting, writing and art — show smaller numbers than the true total.
About the schooling line. Where a card says what a job usually asks for, that comes from O*NET Job Zones, which describe the education typically required to enter an occupation. It does not describe the route people actually take, and the two can differ sharply — professional athletes carry a job zone of 2, which is O*NET saying a high school diploma is what the occupation formally requires, and nothing more than that. We do not publish a figure for the route people actually take, because there is no published government count of it. Required and usual are not the same thing, and we do not tell a child which one to follow.
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What is deliberately not here. No advice, no rankings, no quiz, no score, and nothing telling a child what they should be.