What this site is
JobMarketHealth is an independent labor-market research site operated by Local Focus Media LLC. You can compare occupations, explore state and metro reports, and read the evidence behind changes in hiring, employment and pay.
Federal statistics are the foundation. Other published sources, including state WARN notices and Indeed Hiring Lab postings data, add context where the reports identify them. The site is not a job board and does not sell candidate data.
Editorial standards
- Name the source and the period. A figure for last quarter should not read as a measure of this week. Source dates and retrieval dates answer different questions.
- Keep missing values visible. When a source withholds a figure or a usable value is unavailable, we do not replace it with zero or an invented estimate.
- No sponsored content and no paid placement. Nobody can buy a score, a ranking or a mention.
- Keep each measure at its proper scope. Statewide activity does not become a count for one occupation, and an industry hiring signal does not become a vacancy count for one job title.
- Explain what a comparison supports. Wage percentiles describe a pay distribution; they do not assign salaries to experience levels. Projected annual openings describe a longer-term average, not jobs available today.
Published figures and our interpretation
A wage estimate from BLS is a published source figure. The Job Market Health score is our calculation using published inputs. They should not be mistaken for the same thing: the score summarizes several market measures and does not predict whether one person will get hired. The methodology page explains its inputs, components and weights.
Corrections and versioning
Federal statistics get revised, so a score can change after the fact. We keep both the originally published value and the restated value for each month rather than quietly overwriting history.
Methodology changes are versioned. When the calculation changes, it ships as a new methodology version and prior months keep the version they were computed under. If we find an error in our own presentation or derivation, we fix the page and note what changed.
Coverage today
The site includes national occupation profiles, state labor-market reports, metro profiles and supported occupation-by-state reports. Start with the occupation directory for a role or Local Markets for a place.
Coverage differs by measure. A local wage estimate, statewide postings trend and national industry hiring signal can appear in the same report without describing the same group of jobs. Read the geography and reference period beside each measure. The data sources pages explain what is used in the score, what is supporting context and what is still planned.
Contact
Questions, corrections and data requests are welcome. See the contact page.