The number of employed persons in The United States decreased to 163106 Thousand in July of 2025 from 163366 Thousand in June of 2025. This dataset provides - United States Employed Persons - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Context

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is a unit of the United States Department of Labor. It is the principal fact-finding agency for the U.S. government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics and serves as a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System. The BLS is a governmental statistical agency that collects, processes, analyzes, and disseminates essential statistical data to the American public, the U.S. Congress, other Federal agencies, State and local governments, business, and labor representatives. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_of_Labor_Statistics

Content

Bureau of Labor Statistics including CPI (inflation), employment, unemployment, and wage data.

Update Frequency: Monthly

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Acknowledgements

https://bigquery.cloud.google.com/dataset/bigquery-public-data:bls

https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/public-data/bureau-of-labor-statistics

Dataset Source: http://www.bls.gov/data/

This dataset is publicly available for anyone to use under the following terms provided by the Dataset Source - http://www.data.gov/privacy-policy#data_policy - and is provided "AS IS" without any warranty, express or implied, from Google. Google disclaims all liability for any damages, direct or indirect, resulting from the use of the dataset.

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Inspiration

What is the average annual inflation across all US Cities? What was the monthly unemployment rate (U3) in 2016? What are the top 10 hourly-waged types of work in Pittsburgh, PA for 2016?

Employment Rate in the United States decreased to 59.60 percent in July from 59.70 percent in June of 2025. This dataset provides - United States Employment Rate- actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

The labor force participation rate is the percentage of the population that is either employed or unemployed (that is, either working or actively seeking work). People with jobs are employed. People who are jobless, looking for a job, and available for work are unemployed. The labor force is made up of the employed and the unemployed. People who are neither employed nor unemployed are not in the labor force.

Context

This dataset was created by our in-house Web Scraping and Data Mining teams at PromptCloud and DataStock. You can download the full dataset here. This sample contains 30K records. You can download the full dataset here

Content

Total Records Count : 3933743  Domain Name : indeed.usa  Date Range : 01st Apr 2021 - 30th Jun 2021   File Extension : ldjson

Available Fields : uniq_id, crawl_timestamp, url, job_title, category, company_name, city, state, country, post_date, job_description, job_type, apply_url, job_board, geo, job_post_lang, inferred_iso2_lang_code, is_remote, test1_cities, test1_states, test1_countries, site_name, html_job_description, domain, postdate_yyyymmdd, predicted_language, inferred_iso3_lang_code, test1_inferred_city, test1_inferred_state, test1_inferred_country, inferred_city, inferred_state, inferred_country, has_expired, last_expiry_check_date, latest_expiry_check_date, dataset, postdate_in_indexname_format, segment_name, duplicate_status, fitness_score  

Acknowledgements

We wouldn't be here without the help of our in house web scraping and data mining teams at PromptCloud, DataStock and live job data from JobsPikr.

Inspiration

This dataset was created keeping in mind our data scientists and researchers across the world.

Context

This dataset was created by our in-house Web Scraping and Data Mining teams at PromptCloud and DataStock. You can download the full dataset here. This sample contains 30K records. You can download the full dataset here

Content

Total Records Count : 3288410  Domain Name : careerbuilder.usa.com  Date Range : 01st Oct 2021 - 31st Dec 2021   File Extension : ldjson

Available Fields : url, job_title, category, company_name, logo_url, city, state, country, post_date, test_months_of_experience, occupation_category, job_description, job_type, valid_through, html_job_description, extra_fields, test_onetsoc_code, test_onetsoc_name, uniq_id, crawl_timestamp, job_board, geo, job_post_lang, inferred_iso2_lang_code, is_remote, test1_cities, test1_states, test1_countries, site_name, domain, postdate_yyyymmdd, predicted_language, inferred_iso3_lang_code, test1_inferred_city, test1_inferred_state, test1_inferred_country, inferred_city, inferred_state, inferred_country, has_expired, last_expiry_check_date, latest_expiry_check_date, dataset, postdate_in_indexname_format, segment_name, duplicate_status, job_desc_char_count, ijp_reprocessed_flag_1, ijp_reprocessed_flag_2, ijp_reprocessed_flag_3, fitness_score 

  

Acknowledgements

We wouldn't be here without the help of our in house web scraping and data mining teams at PromptCloud, DataStock and live job data from JobsPikr.

Inspiration

This dataset was created keeping in mind our data scientists and researchers across the world.

The employment and unemployment indicator shows several data points. The first figure is the number of people in the labor force, which includes the number of people who are either working or looking for work. The second two figures, the number of people who are employed and the number of people who are unemployed, are the two subcategories of the labor force. The unemployment rate is a calculation of the number of people who are in the labor force and unemployed as a percentage of the total number of people in the labor force.

The unemployment rate does not include people who are not employed and not in the labor force. This includes adults who are neither working nor looking for work. For example, full-time students may choose not to seek any employment during their college career, and are thus not considered in the unemployment rate. Stay-at-home parents and other caregivers are also considered outside of the labor force, and therefore outside the scope of the unemployment rate.

The unemployment rate is a key economic indicator, and is illustrative of economic conditions in the county at the individual scale.

There are additional considerations to the unemployment rate. Because it does not count those who are outside the labor force, it can exclude individuals who were looking for a job previously, but have since given up. The impact of this on the overall unemployment rate is difficult to quantify, but it is important to note because it shows that no statistic is perfect.

The unemployment rates for Champaign County, the City of Champaign, and the City of Urbana are extremely similar between 2000 and 2023.

All three areas saw a dramatic increase in the unemployment rate between 2006 and 2009. The unemployment rates for all three areas decreased overall between 2010 and 2019. However, the unemployment rate in all three areas rose sharply in 2020 due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The unemployment rate in all three areas dropped again in 2021 as pandemic restrictions were removed, and were almost back to 2019 rates in 2022. However, the unemployment rate in all three areas rose slightly from 2022 to 2023.

This data is sourced from the Illinois Department of Employment Security’s Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS), and from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Sources: Illinois Department of Employment Security, Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS); U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Unemployment Rate in the United States increased to 4.20 percent in July from 4.10 percent in June of 2025. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - United States Unemployment Rate - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

Graph and download economic data for All Employees, Manufacturing (MANEMP) from Jan 1939 to Jul 2025 about headline figure, establishment survey, employment, manufacturing, and USA.

About this dataset

Context

The dataset presents median income data over a decade or more for males and females categorized by Total, Full-Time Year-Round (FT), and Part-Time (PT) employment in Ketchum. It showcases annual income, providing insights into gender-specific income distributions and the disparities between full-time and part-time work. The dataset can be utilized to gain insights into gender-based pay disparity trends and explore the variations in income for male and female individuals.

Key observations: Insights from 2023

Based on our analysis ACS 2019-2023 5-Year Estimates, we present the following observations: - All workers, aged 15 years and older: In Ketchum, the median income for all workers aged 15 years and older, regardless of work hours, was $40,313 for males and $16,250 for females.

These income figures highlight a substantial gender-based income gap in Ketchum. Women, regardless of work hours, earn 40 cents for each dollar earned by men. This significant gender pay gap, approximately 60%, underscores concerning gender-based income inequality in the town of Ketchum.

- Full-time workers, aged 15 years and older: In Ketchum, among full-time, year-round workers aged 15 years and older, males earned a median income of $55,833, while females earned $31,250, leading to a 44% gender pay gap among full-time workers. This illustrates that women earn 56 cents for each dollar earned by men in full-time roles. This level of income gap emphasizes the urgency to address and rectify this ongoing disparity, where women, despite working full-time, face a more significant wage discrepancy compared to men in the same employment roles.

Remarkably, across all roles, including non-full-time employment, women displayed a similar gender pay gap percentage. This indicates a consistent gender pay gap scenario across various employment types in Ketchum, showcasing a consistent income pattern irrespective of employment status.

Content

When available, the data consists of estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) 2019-2023 5-Year Estimates. All incomes have been adjusting for inflation and are presented in 2023-inflation-adjusted dollars.

Gender classifications include:

• Male
• Female

Employment type classifications include:

• Full-time, year-round: A full-time, year-round worker is a person who worked full time (35 or more hours per week) and 50 or more weeks during the previous calendar year.
• Part-time: A part-time worker is a person who worked less than 35 hours per week during the previous calendar year.

Variables / Data Columns

• Year: This column presents the data year. Expected values are 2010 to 2023
• Male Total Income: Annual median income, for males regardless of work hours
• Male FT Income: Annual median income, for males working full time, year-round
• Male PT Income: Annual median income, for males working part time
• Female Total Income: Annual median income, for females regardless of work hours
• Female FT Income: Annual median income, for females working full time, year-round
• Female PT Income: Annual median income, for females working part time

Good to know

Margin of Error

Data in the dataset are based on the estimates and are subject to sampling variability and thus a margin of error. Neilsberg Research recommends using caution when presening these estimates in your research.

Custom data

If you do need custom data for any of your research project, report or presentation, you can contact our research staff at research@neilsberg.com for a feasibility of a custom tabulation on a fee-for-service basis.

Inspiration

Neilsberg Research Team curates, analyze and publishes demographics and economic data from a variety of public and proprietary sources, each of which often includes multiple surveys and programs. The large majority of Neilsberg Research aggregated datasets and insights is made available for free download at https://www.neilsberg.com/research/.

Recommended for further research

This dataset is a part of the main dataset for Ketchum median household income by race. You can refer the same here

About this dataset

Context

The dataset presents median income data over a decade or more for males and females categorized by Total, Full-Time Year-Round (FT), and Part-Time (PT) employment in Many. It showcases annual income, providing insights into gender-specific income distributions and the disparities between full-time and part-time work. The dataset can be utilized to gain insights into gender-based pay disparity trends and explore the variations in income for male and female individuals.

Key observations: Insights from 2023

Based on our analysis ACS 2019-2023 5-Year Estimates, we present the following observations: - All workers, aged 15 years and older: In Many, the median income for all workers aged 15 years and older, regardless of work hours, was $23,088 for males and $16,460 for females.

These income figures indicate a substantial gender-based pay disparity, showcasing a gap of approximately 29% between the median incomes of males and females in Many. With women, regardless of work hours, earning 71 cents to each dollar earned by men, this income disparity reveals a concerning trend toward wage inequality that demands attention in thetown of Many.

- Full-time workers, aged 15 years and older: In Many, among full-time, year-round workers aged 15 years and older, males earned a median income of $50,625, while females earned $33,250, leading to a 34% gender pay gap among full-time workers. This illustrates that women earn 66 cents for each dollar earned by men in full-time roles. This level of income gap emphasizes the urgency to address and rectify this ongoing disparity, where women, despite working full-time, face a more significant wage discrepancy compared to men in the same employment roles.

Remarkably, across all roles, including non-full-time employment, women displayed a lower gender pay gap percentage. This indicates that Many offers better opportunities for women in non-full-time positions.

Content

When available, the data consists of estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) 2019-2023 5-Year Estimates. All incomes have been adjusting for inflation and are presented in 2023-inflation-adjusted dollars.

Gender classifications include:

• Male
• Female

Employment type classifications include:

• Full-time, year-round: A full-time, year-round worker is a person who worked full time (35 or more hours per week) and 50 or more weeks during the previous calendar year.
• Part-time: A part-time worker is a person who worked less than 35 hours per week during the previous calendar year.

Variables / Data Columns

• Year: This column presents the data year. Expected values are 2010 to 2023
• Male Total Income: Annual median income, for males regardless of work hours
• Male FT Income: Annual median income, for males working full time, year-round
• Male PT Income: Annual median income, for males working part time
• Female Total Income: Annual median income, for females regardless of work hours
• Female FT Income: Annual median income, for females working full time, year-round
• Female PT Income: Annual median income, for females working part time

Good to know

Margin of Error

Data in the dataset are based on the estimates and are subject to sampling variability and thus a margin of error. Neilsberg Research recommends using caution when presening these estimates in your research.

Custom data

If you do need custom data for any of your research project, report or presentation, you can contact our research staff at research@neilsberg.com for a feasibility of a custom tabulation on a fee-for-service basis.

Inspiration

Neilsberg Research Team curates, analyze and publishes demographics and economic data from a variety of public and proprietary sources, each of which often includes multiple surveys and programs. The large majority of Neilsberg Research aggregated datasets and insights is made available for free download at https://www.neilsberg.com/research/.

Recommended for further research

This dataset is a part of the main dataset for Many median household income by race. You can refer the same here

We track hiring activity and employees growth for all US public companies. For each company, we have a link to its Indeed, Glassdoor, and Linkedin profiles, which allows us to understand growth trends in real-time.

The main fields are the number of open job positions, headcount, and various employee ratings (diversity, salary satisfaction, etc.). The dataset has 1 year of history, and the data is updated daily.

This data gives answers to such questions as: - Which companies are most actively hiring right now? - Which companies had the most significant growth of employees over the past week/month/year? - Which companies have the highest rates from employees in terms of ESG, and which ones cannot retain an employee for more than a month?

Such data helps estimate the risks of long-term investing in shares and is valuable for Hedge Funds, M&A firms, and consulting companies.

Context

This dataset was created by our in-house Web Scraping and Data Mining teams at PromptCloud and DataStock. You can download the full dataset here. This sample contains 30K records. You can download the full dataset here

Content

Total Records Count : 4451780  Domain Name : Indeed.usa.com  Date Range : 01st Jan 2022 - 31st Mar 2022   File Extension : ldjson

Available Fields : url, job_title, category, company_name, city, state, country, post_date, occupation_category, job_description, job_type, valid_through, html_job_description, extra_fields, uniq_id, crawl_timestamp, job_board, geo, job_post_lang, inferred_iso2_lang_code, is_remote, test1_cities, test1_states, test1_countries, site_name, domain, postdate_yyyymmdd, predicted_language, inferred_iso3_lang_code, test1_inferred_city, test1_inferred_state, test1_inferred_country, inferred_city, inferred_state, inferred_country, has_expired, last_expiry_check_date, latest_expiry_check_date, dataset, postdate_in_indexname_format, segment_name, duplicate_status, job_desc_char_count, ijp_reprocessed_flag_1, ijp_reprocessed_flag_2, ijp_reprocessed_flag_3, ijp_is_production_ready, fitness_score  

Acknowledgements

We wouldn't be here without the help of our in house web scraping and data mining teams at PromptCloud, DataStock and live job data from JobsPikr.

Inspiration

This dataset was created keeping in mind our data scientists and researchers across the world.

Full profile of 10,000 people in the US - download here, data schema here, with more than 40 data points including - Full Name - Education - Location - Work Experience History and many more!

There are additionally 258+ Million US people profiles available, visit the LinkDB product page here.

Our LinkDB database is an exhaustive database of publicly accessible LinkedIn people and companies profiles. It contains close to 500 Million people and companies profiles globally.

Context

This dataset was created by our in-house Web Scraping and Data Mining teams at PromptCloud and DataStock. You can download the full dataset here. This sample contains 30K records. You can download the full dataset here

Content

Total Records Count : 376802  Domain Name : careerbuilder.usa  Date Range : 01st Jan 2021 - 31st Mar 2021   File Extension : ldjson

Available Fields : uniq_id, crawl_timestamp, url, job_title, company_name, city, state, post_date, job_description, job_type, apply_url, job_board, geo, job_post_lang, inferred_iso2_lang_code, inferred_iso3_lang_code, test1_cities, test1_states, site_name, html_job_description, domain, postdate_yyyymmdd, predicted_language, test1_inferred_city, test1_inferred_state, test1_inferred_country, inferred_city, inferred_state, inferred_country, inferred_salary_currency, has_expired, last_expiry_check_date, latest_expiry_check_date, duplicate_status, dataset, is_remote, postdate_in_indexname_format, fitness_score 

Acknowledgements

We wouldn't be here without the help of our in house web scraping and data mining teams at PromptCloud, DataStock and live job data from JobsPikr.

Inspiration

This dataset was created keeping in mind our data scientists and researchers across the world.

The Travel Time to Work indicator compares the mean, or average, commute time for Champaign County residents to the mean commute time for residents of Illinois and the United States as a whole. On its own, mean travel time of all commuters on all mode types could be reflective of a number of different conditions. Congestion, mode choice, changes in residential patterns, changes in the location of major employment centers, and changes in the transit network can all impact travel time in different and often conflicting ways. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the workplace location (office vs. home) is another factor that can impact the mean travel time of an area. We don’t recommend trying to draw any conclusions about conditions in Champaign County, or anywhere else, based on mean travel time alone.

However, when combined with other indicators in the Mobility category (and other categories), mean travel time to work is a valuable measure of transportation behaviors in Champaign County.

Champaign County’s mean travel time to work is lower than the mean travel time to work in Illinois and the United States. Based on this figure, the state of Illinois has the longest commutes of the three analyzed areas.

The year-to-year fluctuations in mean travel time have been statistically significant in the United States since 2014, and in Illinois in 2021 and 2022. Champaign County’s year-to-year fluctuations in mean travel time were statistically significant from 2021 to 2022, the first time since this data first started being tracked in 2005.

Mean travel time data was sourced from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) 1-Year Estimates, which are released annually.

As with any datasets that are estimates rather than exact counts, it is important to take into account the margins of error (listed in the column beside each figure) when drawing conclusions from the data.

Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, instead of providing the standard 1-year data products, the Census Bureau released experimental estimates from the 1-year data in 2020. This includes a limited number of data tables for the nation, states, and the District of Columbia. The Census Bureau states that the 2020 ACS 1-year experimental tables use an experimental estimation methodology and should not be compared with other ACS data. For these reasons, and because data is not available for Champaign County, no data for 2020 is included in this Indicator.

For interested data users, the 2020 ACS 1-Year Experimental data release includes a dataset on Travel Time to Work.

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau; American Community Survey, 2023 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates, Table S0801; generated by CCRPC staff; using data.census.gov; (16 October 2024).; U.S. Census Bureau; American Community Survey, 2022 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates, Table S0801; generated by CCRPC staff; using data.census.gov; (10 October 2023).; U.S. Census Bureau; American Community Survey, 2021 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates, Table S0801; generated by CCRPC staff; using data.census.gov; (17 October 2022).; U.S. Census Bureau; American Community Survey, 2019 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates, Table S0801; generated by CCRPC staff; using data.census.gov; (29 March 2021).; U.S. Census Bureau; American Community Survey, 2018 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates, Table S0801; generated by CCRPC staff; using data.census.gov; (29 March 2021).; U.S. Census Bureau; American Community Survey, 2017 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates, Table S0801; generated by CCRPC staff; using American FactFinder; (13 September 2018).; U.S. Census Bureau; American Community Survey, 2016 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates, Table S0801; generated by CCRPC staff; using American FactFinder; (14 September 2017).; U.S. Census Bureau; American Community Survey, 2015 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates, Table S0801; generated by CCRPC staff; using American FactFinder; (19 September 2016).; U.S. Census Bureau; American Community Survey, 2014 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates, Table S0801; generated by CCRPC staff; using American FactFinder; (16 March 2016).; U.S. Census Bureau; American Community Survey, 2013 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates, Table S0801; generated by CCRPC staff; using American FactFinder; (16 March 2016).; U.S. Census Bureau; American Community Survey, 2012 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates, Table S0801; generated by CCRPC staff; using American FactFinder; (16 March 2016).; U.S. Census Bureau; American Community Survey, 2011 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates, Table S0801; generated by CCRPC staff; using American FactFinder; (16 March 2016).; U.S. Census Bureau; American Community Survey, 2010 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates, Table S0801; generated by CCRPC staff; using American FactFinder; (16 March 2016).; U.S. Census Bureau; American Community Survey, 2009 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates, Table S0801; generated by CCRPC staff; using American FactFinder; (16 March 2016).; U.S. Census Bureau; American Community Survey, 2008 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates, Table S0801; generated by CCRPC staff; using American FactFinder; (16 March 2016).; U.S. Census Bureau; American Community Survey, 2007 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates, Table S0801; generated by CCRPC staff; using American FactFinder; (16 March 2016).; U.S. Census Bureau; American Community Survey, 2006 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates, Table S0801; generated by CCRPC staff; using American FactFinder; (16 March 2016).; U.S. Census Bureau; American Community Survey, 2005 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates, Table S0801; generated by CCRPC staff; using American FactFinder; (16 March 2016).

The net job and business growth indicator measures the annual change in both the number of firms and the number of employees between 1978 and 2022. The data is categorized by the size of the firm: those with 1-19 employees, those with between 20 and 499 employees, and those with more than 500 employees.

This data contributes to the big picture of economic conditions in Champaign County. More firms and larger employment numbers are generally positive economic indicators, but any strictly economic indicator should be considered in the context of other factors.

The number of firms and number of employees show very different trends.

Historically, there have been significantly more firms with 1-19 employees than firms in the larger two size categories. The number of firms with 1-19 employees has also been relatively consistent until 2021: there were 95 fewer such firms in 2021 than 1978, and the largest year-to-year change in that 43-year period of analysis was a -3.2% decrease between 1979 and 1980. However, there were 437 fewer such firms in 2022 than 1978. There was a decrease in these firms of 12.5% from 2021 to 2022, the only double-digit year-to-year change and the largest year-to-year change over 44 years.

The larger two size categories have shown an increasing trend over the period of analysis. There were 43 more firms with 20-499 employees in 2022 than 1978, a total increase of 9%. The number of firms with more than 500 employees almost doubled, increasing by 206 firms from 212 in 1978 to 418 in 2022, a total increase of 97.2%.

The trends of employment also vary based on firm size. Firms with 1-19 employees have consistently, and unsurprisingly, accounted for less of the total employment than the larger two categories. Employment in firms with 1-19 employees has also remained relatively consistent over the period of analysis. Employment in firms with more than 500 employees saw an overall trend of growth, interrupted by brief and intermittent decreases, between 1978 and 2022. Employment in the middle category (firms with between 20 and 499 employees) was also greater in 2022 than in 1978.

This data is from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Business Dynamics Statistics Data Tables. This data is at the geographic scale of the Champaign-Urbana Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), which is comprised of Champaign and Piatt Counties, or a larger area than the cities or Champaign County.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau; 2022 Business Dynamics Statistics Data Tables; "BDSFSIZE - Business Dynamics Statistics: Firm Size: 1978-2022"; retrieved 21 October 2024.

Context

This dataset was created by our in house teams at PromptCloud and DataStock. This dataset contains 30K sample records in it. You can download the full dataset here.

Content

This dataset contains the following: Total Records Count: 564861  Domain Name:: monster.com  Date Range : 01st Jan 2020 - 31st Mar 2020   File Extension : ldjson

Available Fields : uniq_id, crawl_timestamp, url, job_title, category, company_name, city, state, country, post_date, job_description, job_board, geo, job_post_lang, valid_through, html_job_description, inferred_iso2_lang_code, inferred_iso3_lang_code, site_name, domain, postdate_yyyymmdd, has_expired, last_expiry_check_date, latest_expiry_check_date, duplicate_status, postdate_in_indexname_format, inferred_city, inferred_state, inferred_country, fitness_score 

Acknowledgements

We wouldn't be here without the help of our in house web scraping and data mining teams at PromptCloud and DataStock.

Inspiration

This dataset was created for all the analysts and researchers across the globe.

The O*NET Database contains hundreds of standardized and occupation-specific descriptors on almost 1,000 occupations covering the entire U.S. economy. The database, which is available to the public at no cost, is continually updated by a multi-method data collection program. Sources of data include: job incumbents, occupational experts, occupational analysts, employer job postings, and customer/professional association input.

Data content areas include:

• Worker Characteristics (e.g., Abilities, Interests, Work Styles)
• Worker Requirements (e.g., Education, Knowledge, Skills)
• Experience Requirements (e.g., On-the-Job Training, Work Experience)
• Occupational Requirements (e.g., Detailed Work Activities, Work Context)
• Occupation-Specific Information (e.g., Job Titles, Tasks, Technology Skills)

The Better Jobs Index is a tool for comparative analysis of labor markets in Latin America. This index evaluates the state of employment in the region through two dimensions: quantity and quality, each comprising two indicators. The quantity dimension measures how many people wish to work (labor force participation) and how many are actually employed (employment rate). The quality dimension assesses how much of the work generated is registered in social security systems (formality) and how many workers earn wages sufficient to lift them above the poverty line (sufficient wages). Through the Better Jobs Index, the Inter-American Development Bank aims to provide countries with a new instrument to more effectively monitor employment conditions, facilitate cross-country comparisons, and promote policies that lead to more favorable employment conditions.