Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO) Exlporer tool provides summary employment earnings at the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles, one, five, and 10 years after graduation, by institution, degree level, degree field, and graduation cohort. Employment Flows tabulations provide the destination industry and geography of employment for graduates of an institution also by degree level, degree field, and graduation cohort, for one, five, and 10 years after graduation. Graduation cohorts include groups of three academic years, with the most recent one-year outcomes currently available for students graduating between 2016 and 2018, five-year outcomes available for students graduating between 2010-2012 and ten-year outcomes for those graduating from 2007-2009.

The U.S. Census Bureau uses the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) database of jobs covering over 96% of employment in the United States to generate the post-graduation outcomes reported in the PSEO Explorer. The core jobs data are state unemployment insurance (UI) wage records collected via a voluntary federal-state data sharing partnership. These job records are then supplemented with the U.S. Census Bureau surveys and other federal agency administrative records to supply additional information on the characteristics of the workers.  

PSEO earnings are total annual earnings for workers from all jobs, converted to 2020 dollars using the CPI-U. Graduates who earn at least the annual equivalent of full-time work, at the prevailing federal minimum wage, and work three or more quarters in a calendar year are included. For more information about the PSEO Explorer’s methodology, data sources, and population and employment coverage, please see the PSEO Explorer’s documentation page.