The Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OES) program conducts a semi-annual survey to produce estimates of employment and wages for specific occupations. The OES program collects data on wage and salary workers in nonfarm establishments in order to produce employment and wage estimates for about 800 occupations. Data from self-employed persons are not collected and are not included in the estimates. The OES program produces these occupational estimates by geographic area and by industry. Estimates based on geographic areas are available at the National, State, Metropolitan, and Nonmetropolitan Area levels. The Bureau of Labor Statistics produces occupational employment and wage estimates for over 450 industry classifications at the national level. The industry classifications correspond to the sector, 3-, 4-, and 5-digit North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) industrial groups. More information and details about the data provided can be found at http://www.bls.gov/oes

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About this Dataset

This dataset combines automation probability data with a breakdown of the number of jobs and salary in each occupation by state within the USA. Automation probability was acquired from the work of Carl Benedikt Freyand Michael A. Osborne; State employment data is from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Note that for simplicity of analysis, all jobs where data was not available or there were less than 10 employees were marked as zero.

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Salary Data

@misc{u.s. bureau of labor statistics, title={Occupational Employment Statistics}, url={https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm}, journal={U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS}}

Automation Data

@article{frey_osborne_2017, title={The future of employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation?}, volume={114}, DOI={10.1016/j.techfore.2016.08.019}, journal={Technological Forecasting and Social Change}, author={Frey, Carl Benedikt and Osborne, Michael A.}, year={2017}, pages={254–280}}

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The Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) Program is a Federal-State cooperative program between the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the California EDD’s Labor Market Information Division (LMID). The QCEW program produces a comprehensive tabulation of employment and wage information for workers covered by California Unemployment Insurance (UI) laws and Federal workers covered by the Unemployment Compensation for Federal Employees (UCFE) program.

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