A major part of the STEM workforce, referred to as the Skilled Technical Workforce (STW), is composed of workers with less than a bachelor's degree performing jobs that require technical skills. This project uses a career approach to map the jobs in the STW by identifying the occupations that workers with technical skills, and less than a 4-year college degree, move through over the course of their careers. The project will identify the job ladders providing entry and mobility through the STW. Job ladders enable workers who acquire greater levels of experience to transfer developed skills across linked occupations, and achieve higher wages. Finally, the study will analyze variation in access to and mobility through the STW by investigating the role of teenage employment experiences, parental occupation, and living in rural, suburban, and urban areas. This research will result in the creation of an internet-based interactive tool that describes STW occupations and job ladders, in addition to the creation of research briefs and journal articles on the STW. The project will provide accessible information on how workers enter and move through the STW that will benefit students planning careers in the STW, employers looking to hire these workers, and community members seeking to strengthen the pathways into the STW. This research will advance the study of workers' careers by jointly studying occupation and wage mobility in the context of the STW. The analysis builds on prev