About DatenUS Jobs Data

The Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey covers about 1.1 million business establishments over three years. Estimates on this site are for May 2025 and exclude the self-employed. Annual wages are hourly wages times 2,080 hours, except for occupations paid by the year such as teachers, for which BLS publishes only annual wages. Occupations usually paid by the hour that do not work year round, such as actors, have only hourly wages. When BLS marks an estimate as top coded (at or above $239,200 a year or $115.00 an hour), we show it as an amount "or more". When BLS does not release an estimate, we show "Not reported".

Ten-year projections for 2025 to 2035 of employment, yearly openings, and the typical education, experience and training for each occupation. Projections assume a full-employment economy and are revised each September.

We total the public disclosure files from the Office of Foreign Labor Certification by employer, occupation, state and city. H-1B covers Labor Condition Applications for the H-1B program only decided in fiscal year 2026 through Jun 30, 2026; PERM covers labor certifications decided in fiscal year 2026 through Jun 30, 2026. A case counts once even if it appears in more than one quarterly file. The wage is the lower end of the wage the employer offered, converted to a yearly amount at 2,080 hours, 52 weeks, 26 pay periods or 12 months; amounts below $15,000 or above $1,500,000 a year are treated as entry errors and left out of wage figures. Medians are shown only when there are at least three wages. A certified filing is not a visa or green card approval.

We do not publish any applicant, attorney or employer contact information from these files. Employers are grouped by name and headquarters state. Employers that appear to be private households or individuals are left out of employer lists and pages, though their filings still count in state, city and occupation totals.

Unemployment rates come from the BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics program; state rates are seasonally adjusted and metro and county rates are not. Minimum wages are the state rates listed by the Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division. The average weekly unemployment benefit is regular state benefits paid divided by weeks compensated, from each state's ETA 5159 report (latest 09/01/2026). Weekly jobless claims are on the DatenUS jobless claims page.

Monthly payroll jobs come from the BLS Current Employment Statistics survey, seasonally adjusted. Union membership comes from the Current Population Survey and is published once a year for each state.

Open federal job announcements come from the USAJOBS Search API run by the Office of Personnel Management. We show a summary and link to the official announcement on USAJOBS.gov, where you apply. Hiring contact names are not shown. DatenUS Jobs is not a job board and does not list private employers' openings.