The problem we're solving
Professional students and career changers face one of life's most consequential decisions with remarkably poor tooling. The question "which career path within my profession fits my life?" gets answered by one of three things: a 10-question personality quiz, a generic article, or word of mouth from whoever you happen to know.
Personality quizzes tell you what type of person you are. They don't tell you that choosing retail pharmacy over hospital pharmacy will affect your income, your schedule, and your quality of life for the next 30 years. They don't tell you that a PsyD carries $225K in average debt vs. funded PhD programs. They don't tell you that the average school SLP caseload is 51 students — 28% above ASHA's recommended maximum.
PathFit was built to do what personality quizzes don't: match your specific, weighted priorities to career paths scored on real data from professional associations, peer-reviewed workforce studies, and published compensation surveys.
What makes PathFit different
Income matters more to you than work-life balance? Tell us. The ranking adjusts to your actual priorities, not the profession's average. Two people in the same program should get different results if they value different things.
Every score comes from BLS, APA, ADA, APTA, AOTA, ASHA, AOA, ASHP, NCCPA, DoD pay tables, and peer-reviewed workforce surveys. We cite our sources.
Everything runs in your browser. Nothing you enter is sent to any server, stored, or shared. No account, no email, no data trail.
PathFit doesn't match you to a profession — it matches you to a path within the profession you've already chosen. That's the decision nobody else has built a data-driven tool for.
What PathFit is not
PathFit is not career counseling, professional advice, or a substitute for talking to people actually doing the work you're considering. It's a decision-support framework that surfaces data you should know before having those conversations. The scores are informed estimates based on profession-wide data — they cannot account for your specific program, your specific market, your specific circumstances, or the dozens of factors that no algorithm can weigh.
The most important thing you can do with your PathFit results is use them as a conversation starter: find practitioners in your top two matches and ask them directly about their experience. The tool gives you a framework. Real humans give you the truth.