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 cur…
Questions this answers
3 · best fit firstThe May 2025 OEWS release supplies occupation- and area-pinned straight-time gross hourly and annual mean, median, and percentile wage estimates, together with release, classification, suppression, and sampling-error context.
The May 2025 OEWS release supplies occupation- and geography-pinned total-employment estimates with employment relative standard error, suppression conventions, classification vintage, release, and methodology context; it does not establish an individual’s employability.
For selected construction occupations and published U.S. areas, OEWS supplies hourly and annual wage estimates as useful labour-cost context only. It does not supply material prices, contractor billing rates, productivity, assemblies, overhead, or a building-specific estimate.
Fields it delivers
22 fieldsBLS first-party documentation presents Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics Estimates as a U.S. statistical product, with national and any supported state/local cohorts inside the fifty states and District of Columbia.
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