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Your MOS does not translate to one job
Every MOS-to-civilian-job lookup gives you a single answer, and that is why they do not help. One code maps to a spread of civilian roles paying very different money, and which one you are aiming at changes how the experience should be written.
- Published job guides
- 463One per military job code, across all six branches.
- Salary data
- BLS OEWSMedian annual wages, May 2024, not job-board estimates.
- Career paths per code
- SeveralDirect matches, federal series, and pivots, not one answer.
- Cost
- FreeEvery guide, and the resume that uses the translation.
What one code actually maps to
Six real codes, with the top civilian matches from their guide and the spread of BLS medians across every match on it. The range is the point: a single answer would have to pick one end of it.
| Code | Job | Top civilian matches | BLS median range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11B | Infantryman | Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officer, Security Guard, First-Line Supervisor of Protective Service Workers | $38K to $103K |
| 25B | Information Technology Specialist | Computer User Support Specialist, Network and Computer Systems Administrator, Information Security Analyst | $60K to $133K |
| HM | Hospital Corpsman | Emergency Medical Technician, Paramedic, Medical Assistant | $41K to $133K |
| 3D0X2 | Cyber Systems Operations | Network and Computer Systems Administrator, Information Security Analyst, Computer Systems Analyst | $60K to $133K |
| 0311 | Rifleman | Police Officer / Sheriff's Patrol Officer, First-Line Supervisor of Protective Service Workers, Security Guard | $37K to $76K |
| 68W | Combat Medic Specialist | Emergency Medical Technician, Paramedic, Licensed Practical Nurse | $41K to $133K |
Why a lookup table cannot do this
The same experience reads differently per job
An 11B applying to a project management role and an 11B applying to a security director role should not send the same bullets. A lookup has one output; a job application needs the one aimed at it.
The value is in the duties, not the code
What qualifies you is what you actually did: the people, the budget, the systems, the decisions. The code is a label on top of that, which is why translating the label alone gets you nowhere.
Federal and private sector are two translations
A federal rater is matching you against a specialized experience statement in a two-page limit. A private sector screener is scanning for a title and a number. Same career, two different documents.
It is not a separate step
BMR does not have a translator you visit. When your resume is built and tailored to a posting, the military duties and jargon get converted as part of that, which is the only place the translation has enough context to be right.
How to get your own translation
1Find your code
Open the guide for your MOS, Rating or AFSC. It carries the civilian matches, the federal series, real salary data, and before-and-after resume lines for that code.
2Upload what you already have
Your existing resume, or your evals: NCOERs, OERs, FITREPs, EPRs and OPRs. That is where the duties and accomplishments come from, so nothing has to be typed from memory.
3Pick the job you are answering
Paste the posting or pick one from the search. This is the input a lookup table never has, and the reason the output can be right.
4Read what it wrote
The military terms are converted, the scope is kept, and the numbers come from your record. Edit anything that is not how you would say it, then download.
Questions
Is there a translator tool I can just type my MOS into?
Not as a standalone tool, deliberately. Typing a code into a box can only ever return a generic answer, and a generic answer is what is already failing veterans. Open the guide for your code to see the paths it maps to, and let the resume builder do the translation against a real job.
What if my code has no published guide yet?
The builder still handles it. The guides are written one code at a time and there are more every week, but the translation works from your own duties and accomplishments, not from whether a page exists.
Where do the salary numbers come from?
Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, median annual wages, May 2024. Every figure on this page and on the guides is a BLS median for a matched civilian occupation, not an estimate from a job board.
Does it work for Navy ratings and Air Force AFSCs?
Yes, and for Marine Corps MOSs, Coast Guard ratings and Space Force codes. All six branches, and the guides are organised by branch.
Will it invent an achievement to make me look better?
No. It writes from what your record actually holds. If a number is not in your evals or your resume, it does not appear in the output.
Is any of this free?
The guides are free to read. Every veteran also gets two tailored resumes free, one federal and one private sector, which is where the translation of your own record happens.
Translate the experience, not the code
Upload what you have, name the job you are going for, and the military language comes out the other side as the civilian version of the same work, aimed at that posting.