Labor Market Information (LMI)

Using Virginia Career View or O-Net is required as part of your WorkWORLD analysis. By utilizing Labor Market Information (LMI) from these sites, you can compare salaries based on entry level versus experienced workers for the career the client chooses. It’s important to take into consideration the possibility for career growth and that the client may have the potential to increase his or her earnings over time.

The use of actual salary ranges helps to make the analysis more accurate than an estimate of potential wages. The goal is to highlight an increase in disposable income when a client works, not to highlight the impact of work on benefits. As such it’s required that each WorkWORLD includes at least one scenario showing the client working off of cash benefits, utilizing the information from either of the LMI sites in your scenario

For more information:
http://www.vacareerview.com/
http://www.onetonline.org/