DC Career and Technical Education (CTE) is designed to meet the evolving needs of learners and decrease skills gaps for promising industries by combining academics and high-quality, real-world experiences, allowing DC students to design their pathway to success in their career of choice.
Dig into the tools below to understand the paths that CTE concentrators and non-CTE concentrators take to employment. What are the median annual wages and stable wage rates for those who concentrate in CTE versus those who do not? CTE concentrators are defined as students who have taken three or more courses in the same program of study.
These dashboards pull from the District of Columbia administrative data and reflect individuals who are employed in DC. The information found here represents only those individuals captured in the data.
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Median Annual Wages Among DC CTE Concentrators
As DC continues to expand access and participation in CTE, it is critical to understand the paths that students take after engaging with these programs.
Do specific CTE programs show a higher or lower median wage trajectory compared to the median wage of all CTE concentrators or all non-CTE concentrators?
Use this interactive tool to explore data and begin to answer these questions.
Stable Employment Rate Among DC CTE Concentrators
Through CTE Concentrator program engagement, DC students can explore career pathways, determine what they like to do, and build the foundation for a meaningful career. There are multiple components of an individual’s employment journey, including whether an individual maintains steady employment.
- To what extent are CTE concentrators experiencing stable employment compared to non-concentrators in the four years following high school completion? For the purposes of this dashboard, we define a stable wage as an individual who has been employed for three consecutive quarters within the same year, which translates to maintaining a job for at least three months.
Understanding patterns in stable employment can help educators, workforce leaders, and policymakers identify pathways that support sustained workforce participation and better understand the conditions that contribute to long-term employment success after high school.
Dig into the dashboard and begin to answer these questions.
What pathways have UDC graduates taken after earning their degree?