The Switch Report maps your background to three realistic career pathways and forecasts what each one pays — at 1, 5, and 10 years — as a range, not a single rosy average. Every figure is sourced from published earnings data. No chatbot salary vibes.
Know what the pathway pays, before you pay for the pathway.
A career switch is one of the biggest purchases of your life — tuition, lost wages, and years of your runway. It deserves the same diligence as a home inspection. Which of these sounds like you?
SEGMENT 01
Severance gives you a runway, not forever. You need to know which move rebuilds your income fastest — and which "fresh start" quietly costs you six figures in lost earnings.
Lead segment for the founding testSEGMENT 02
You have a paycheck and a decision: a degree, a bootcamp, a certificate. Before you commit two years and real money, see the payoff distribution — and the month it breaks even against staying put.
SEGMENT 03
Caregiving, health, a military move — you're re-entering and the old ladder may not be there. The report finds where your experience still pays, and what a short credential adds on top.
Three pathways, one honest comparison: what each costs, what each pays across a decade, and when — if ever — the switch pays for itself.
Marketing manager · 11 years experience · laid off in a restructuring · Twin Cities, MN
The baseline everything else must beat. Break-even: immediate — every dollar of retraining has to out-earn this line.
A step down in year 1, ahead by year 3. Breaks even in month 19 against Pathway A — if she lands at or above the median.
Highest ceiling of the three — and the widest spread. Breaks even in month 26; bottom-quartile outcomes never catch Pathway A.
Bar = middle half of earners (25th–75th percentile) · dot = median. Averages hide the downside; ranges show it.
This sample uses a fictional persona and illustrative figures to show the format. Your report is built from your background and real published data — U.S. Census Bureau post-secondary employment outcomes and Bureau of Labor Statistics occupational data for your state and target fields — with every source cited in the report itself.
Six pages that answer one question — is this switch worth it, for me, in dollars? — and show their work.
Your experience translated into the three pathways where it actually transfers — including the stay-and-advance baseline most advice skips.
Forecast pay for each pathway as a distribution — 25th percentile, median, 75th — because your outcome won't be the average.
Tuition, fees, materials, and the wages you give up while training. The number programs don't put in the brochure.
The month each pathway pulls ahead of staying put — and the outcome level below which the switch never pays off.
Whether employers in your region are actually hiring for the target role, from current labor-market data — not a program's marketing page.
A clear call on which pathway we'd take in your shoes, why, and every source cited so you can check the math yourself.
This is a concierge test: the first ten reports are researched and written by a human analyst — Carevo's founder — not generated by a platform. That's deliberate. We want to learn exactly what people in your position need before we build anything bigger.
Fill in the two-minute intake below: where you're starting from, the moves you're weighing, and the question you most need answered.
Your pathways are researched against Census and BLS earnings data for your state and fields. Delivered as a PDF within 5 business days.
Walk in knowing the payoff, the cost, and the break-even. Add a 30-minute review call if you want to pressure-test the recommendation live.
Ten reports at the founding price while we prove this out. When the cohort fills, the Switch Report moves to its regular $129. If we can't find solid earnings data for your field, we tell you before charging anything — and the report is free.
Switch Report
Founding cohort · one-time · PDF delivered in 5 business days
Report + Review Call
Founding cohort · one-time · report plus a live walkthrough
Two minutes. This builds your intake brief — copy or download it and send it to Carevo to reserve your founding spot. No payment is taken on this page; we confirm your spot and data availability first.
Published program- and occupation-level data: primarily the U.S. Census Bureau's Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes and the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, for your state and target fields. Every figure in your report carries its source, and forecasts are shown as ranges — anyone who quotes you one exact future salary is guessing.
No. Coaching helps you figure out what you want; this report prices the options once you have them. It tells you what each pathway pays, costs, and when it breaks even — the decision itself stays yours.
Carevo is testing whether this report is genuinely useful before building software around it. Ten hand-built reports teach us more than a thousand survey clicks — and early buyers get analyst-level work at a founding price.
Then we tell you before charging anything, explain what data does exist, and you choose whether a partial picture is still worth it. If we can't build a report we'd stand behind, there's no charge.
No — and be suspicious of anyone who promises that. The forecast shows what people with your target credential in your state actually earn across the distribution, so you can weigh the likely case, the downside, and the upside with open eyes.
Carevo is a Minnesota company founded in 2025. Its founder spent two decades in workforce and transportation systems — and has personally been on the receiving end of a layoff and the “what now?” spreadsheet that follows. The Switch Report is the tool he wished existed that month.