US Occupation (Nation, State, Census-designated place)

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Description

This dataset shows (by year, class of worker, occupation, and area) occupational employment and earnings data by place of work for Census-designated places (CDPs), as well as states and the nation. The data is available back to 2001, and is projected 10 years out beyond the current calendar year.

Use Cases

Questions answered by this dataset:

• How many pharmacist jobs existed in Florida in 2016? How many are projected to exist in 2026?
• Is the number of librarian jobs in Houston growing or declining?
• How do employment trends for registered nurses in Boston compare with trends in surrounding cities like Brookline or Cambridge?
• Which cities in the Seattle Metropolitan Area are showing the highest levels of job growth?

Metrics

• Jobs by place of work: The number of occupied positions in an area. This is not quite the same as workers because one worker might fill more than one position.
• Earnings (current occupation year) or HistoricalEarnings (2005 - current occupation year) ** Percentile10: 10th percentile hourly earnings per worker. ** Percentile25: 25th percentile hourly earnings per worker. ** Percentile50: 50th percentile (median) hourly earnings per worker. ** Percentile75: 75th percentile hourly earnings per worker. ** Percentile90: 90th percentile hourly earnings per worker. ** Median.Annual: 50th percentile (median) annual earnings per worker. ** Percentile10.Annual: 10th percentile annual earnings per worker. ** Percentile25.Annual: 25th percentile annual earnings per worker. ** Percentile50.Annual: 50th percentile (median) annual earnings per worker. ** Percentile75.Annual: 75th percentile annual earnings per worker. ** Percentile90.Annual: 90th percentile annual earnings per worker.

Filters

• Class of Worker
• Area (Nation, State, Census-designated place)
• Occupation (5-digit SOC)
• Year

Core LMI Metadata