Data field · Geographic area

Occupation employment share

The percentage of an industry cohort’s employment represented by an occupation.

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U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics Estimates

Annual OEWS release files provide employment and straight-time gross hourly and annual wage estimates by occupation for national, state, metropolitan/nonmetropolitan, and national-industry cohorts. BLS publishes the current May 2025 release, annual archives, coordinated OE text files and mapping dictionaries, and Public Data API delivery. Historical editions provide level observations, not an emitted growth rate; comparability requires release, geography, SOC/NAICS vintage, method, suppression, and pooled-sample controls.

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Occupational earnings levels Occupational employment levels Local construction cost benchmarks

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