About
Careerhelp answers the questions people actually have about a job: what it pays, how long it takes to get into, what it costs, and what the work is really like.
Why it exists
Career information is usually either a wall of government statistics that nobody reads, or a glossy page from a school that wants your tuition. Neither tells you the parts that matter: that the pay starts much lower than the headline figure, that the licensing exam has a pass rate, that the job has a hard side nobody mentions at the open house.
So this site puts the real numbers next to the honest description, one short screen at a time, for free, with no account and nothing to sign up for.
What is on it
847 careers across the United States and Canada, each broken into 5 parts:
- Money. What you earn and what it costs to get there.
- Education. The exact path from high school to qualified.
- Optional. Things you don't need, but that help.
- Extras. Day to day, pros and cons, where you'd work.
- Factoids. Things people don't tell you.
Every career can be clicked through one screen at a time, read straight down its page, or printed as a one page summary.
Where the numbers come from
Pay figures come from the national wage surveys each government runs: Job Bank for Canada, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics wage survey for the United States. Training times, costs and licensing rules come from the bodies that actually set them, which means the regulator, the apprenticeship authority or the college, not a third party summarizing them.
Every career page lists its own sources by name, with links, and the date the figures were last checked. If a number cannot be sourced, it does not go on the site. Where a government survey does not cover an occupation, the page says so rather than inventing a figure.
How it stays free
There is no payment, no subscription and no premium tier, and none are planned. The intention is to cover hosting through advertising later on. If that happens, the privacy page will be updated before a single ad appears, and it will say exactly what changed.
Nobody pays to be included, to rank higher, or to be described more kindly. There are no affiliate links to schools or training providers. If that ever changes it will be disclosed on the page where it happens, not buried here.
Who makes it
One person, working from Ontario, Canada. It is an independent project, not a company, a school, a government service or a recruiter.
Corrections
Wage data shifts, licensing rules change, and a figure that was right last year can quietly stop being right. If something here is wrong or out of date, please say so, including the career and what you think it should say. Corrections are the most useful thing anyone can send.