Explore the ladder
The whole map, not just your own step. Search by occupation or walk a sector.
Built from Ascent pathway graph: O*NET related occupations, skill similarity, and occupational-family adjacency
Each edge carries a confidence label. High means every hop is an O*NET related-occupation link; mixed and inferred say so.
Community Career Ladder · free and public for everyone
See where a job can take you in Hamilton County
Real local pay ranges, real openings, and the next moves your skills open up. Pick a sector, open an occupation, and see what it pays, what you need, and where it leads.
occupations you can explore, each with local demand data
sector groups covering every corner of the county economy
occupations with a full local wage range, from lowest to highest paid
behavioral health occupations, a focus area for this community
Skills employers are asking for most right now
Across recent Hamilton County job postings, a quick read on what is worth learning next.
Source: Lightcast Q1 2026 Job Posting Analytics · Job_Posting_Analytics_Hamilton_County_IN_e01412369fc4b46b.xls.
Find an occupation
Pick a sector
Healthcare & Social Services
Nursing, therapy, counseling, social work, and the support roles around them.
Business, Finance, Sales & Administration
Management, finance, sales, and the office roles that keep every organization running.
Technology & Engineering
Software, data, IT support, and engineering across every industry.
Production, Transportation & Logistics
Manufacturing, warehousing, driving, and the supply chain.
Construction, Installation & Trades
Building trades, installation, maintenance, and repair.
Hospitality, Food & Personal Services
Restaurants, hotels, events, and personal care services.
Education, Science & Public Service
Teaching, science, media, protective services, and public work.
Production, Transportation & Logistics
Manufacturing, warehousing, driving, and the supply chain.
37 occupations · 12,127 local jobs · 1,850 openings a year. Pick one to see the full local pay range.
Careers that help people heal
Hamilton County is investing in the people who support mental health and recovery. These occupations are tagged across the ladder, and the county's behavioral health career dashboard shows the same pathways in more detail.
Video tutorials · coming soon
Short captioned videos on using the ladder, Career Coach, and asking for workplace accommodations are in production.
They will appear in this section when they land.
Need a hand?
Email us and a real person will help you use these tools. A full help desk is coming; email support is live today.
Email the help deskSources: Lightcast Q1 2026 occupation snapshot, Hamilton County, IN · U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 release, Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood MSA · Lightcast Career Pathways, Q1 2026, Indianapolis MSA (network built July 2026 from 64 exports) · O*NET database, U.S. Department of Labor (2021-2023 vintages). Wage figures are ranges from public federal data, never promises. Accessibility statement
Accessibility statement
The Community Career Ladder is built for everyone, including people who use screen readers, keyboards, magnifiers, or captions.
Our commitment
We aim to conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, Level AA, for this tool and every digital tool in the program. Plain language matters too: we write body copy to an 8th-grade reading level wherever we can.
What is built in
- A skip link and ARIA landmarks on every page.
- Full keyboard operability with a visible focus outline.
- Color contrast of at least 4.5 to 1 for text.
- Every wage chart is paired with a data table that carries the same numbers, so nothing depends on the picture.
- No information is encoded by color alone.
- Video tutorials publish only with captions. Our player will not show a video that does not have a caption track.
- Automated layout and landmark checks run in our test suite at five screen widths, from small phones to wide desktops.
Testing and audits
We test with keyboard-only navigation and automated checks on every change. We are recruiting VR participants, VR counselors, and service providers for structured user-testing sessions, and we will retain an independent accessibility auditor for an annual audit of this surface.
Last independent audit: not yet performed; the first independent audit is planned ahead of the program's first annual milestone (July 2027).
User-testing sessions held so far: 0.
Known limits
- Some outbound tools we link to, like Career Coach and the county career dashboards, are run by other vendors. We pass accessibility feedback about them to the vendor.
- Federal wage sources sometimes suppress values; we say "not published" rather than leaving a blank.
Tell us what is not working
If any part of this tool is hard to use with your assistive technology, we want to know. Email mthibideau@investhamiltoncounty.com and we will respond within two business days. A full help desk with ticket tracking is coming; email support is live today.
Statement last reviewed 2026-07-21. This statement also serves as the conformance record for the program's quarterly accessibility reporting.
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