Data sources
JobMarketHealth organizes published statistics, mostly federal, plus a few research and private datasets that are clearly labeled. It does not publish original data. Not every listed source is ingested: some feed the score, some are shown only as context, some are experimental, and some are planned and used nowhere yet. Each group below says which. Each dataset page explains what the source measures, what it does not measure, how often it updates, and exactly how it is used here.
These releases feed the composite score directly. Each page explains which component it feeds. For OEWS only the occupation employment trend is scored; OEWS wages are context.
Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey · U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
JOLTS is the monthly national read on labor demand and churn. Establishments report how many positions were open on the last business day of the month, how many people they hired, how many quit, and how many were laid off or discharged.
Current Employment Statistics · U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
CES, often called the payroll survey, samples businesses and government agencies each month and reports employment, hours and earnings. It is the fastest broad read on whether employers are still adding jobs.
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics · U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
OEWS is the wage and staffing map of the labor market. It estimates how many people work in each detailed occupation and what they are paid, nationally and for states, metro areas and industries.
Employment Projections · U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
The Employment Projections program models how employment in each occupation and industry is expected to change over the published projection horizon, and estimates how many openings that produces in a typical year.
Current Population Survey: unemployment by occupation · U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
The Current Population Survey is the monthly household survey behind the national unemployment rate. BLS publishes annual-average unemployment rates by occupation, which show how easily people in a line of work are finding jobs.
Shown on occupation pages, occupation-state pages, state labor-market pages and the local-markets explorer to explain the work, the pay and local conditions. Not inputs to the score.
Business Employment Dynamics (BED) · U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
The job gains and losses underneath net employment change: gains at expanding and opening private-sector establishments, and losses at contracting and closing establishments.
Labor Condition Application public disclosure data · U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification
Employer-reported requests on Certified H-1B labor condition applications, organized by DOL decision month and exact occupation code.
Indeed Job Postings Index · Indeed Hiring Lab
An index of total job postings on Indeed, seasonally adjusted and averaged over seven days, with February 1, 2020 equal to 100. Official public CSV files provide a timely view of hiring demand.
Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages · U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
QCEW is a near census of jobs covered by unemployment insurance, covering more than 95 percent of U.S. jobs. It reports employment, wages and establishment counts by industry and geography, from the nation down to counties.
Occupational Information Network (O*NET®) Database · U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration
The O*NET® Database describes what work in an occupation actually involves. It catalogs tasks, knowledge, skills, abilities, work activities, work context, tools and software, and related occupations.
American Community Survey · U.S. Census Bureau
The American Community Survey is the annual national survey of demographic, social, economic and housing characteristics. Its 1-year products cover larger areas, and its 5-year products reach small geographies at the cost of timeliness.
County Business Patterns · U.S. Census Bureau
County Business Patterns is the annual count of employer establishments by industry and geography, with employment, payroll and establishment size classes down to county and ZIP level.
State Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) notices · State labor and workforce agencies
JobMarketHealth summarizes official state notice listings as statewide counts. Sources with exact notice days use an explicitly displayed 90-calendar-day period. New Jersey and Pennsylvania publish notice timing by month, so their figures use the latest three completed calendar months, labeled month posted or month received. Current-month entries are separate and partial; missing months are unavailable, not zero. No exact notice day is invented. Some state tracking systems also include smaller Rapid Response or courtesy filings below federal WARN thresholds and are labeled separately. Notices describe planned workforce changes, not confirmed job losses.
Local Area Unemployment Statistics · U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
LAUS publishes official monthly unemployment, employment and labor-force estimates for states and local areas, including metros. It measures residents separately from workplace payroll jobs.
LEHD Quarterly Workforce Indicators · U.S. Census Bureau
The Quarterly Workforce Indicators, from the Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics program, describe jobs and quarterly workforce flows: employment, hires, separations and average monthly earnings of stable workers.
Weekly Unemployment Insurance Claims (ETA 539) · U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration
The ETA 539 report is the weekly state filing behind the national jobless-claims release. It counts new unemployment-insurance claims and the weeks of benefits people continue to claim.
Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System: Completions · U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
IPEDS Completions counts the degrees and certificates awarded by U.S. colleges each academic year, by award level and field of study.
Research and official context shown on the AI & Jobs page and occupation AI panels. Exposure, usage, adoption and outcomes are kept separate. None of these is ever part of the Job Market Health score.
Business Trends and Outlook Survey: AI use (Core and 2025–26 AI Supplement) · U.S. Census Bureau
The Business Trends and Outlook Survey asks businesses whether they use AI to produce goods or services. Census labels BTOS an experimental data product. The Core series is current, refreshed data, and JobMarketHealth uses it only as employer-adoption context.
Employment Projections: AI impacts · U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
BLS explains how it considers AI and other emerging technologies when it builds its 10-year employment projections.
Anthropic Economic Index · Anthropic
A research dataset built from privacy-preserving aggregates of Claude conversations. It shows which occupations' tasks people actually use AI for, and whether that use leans toward automating or augmenting the work.
Working with AI: AI applicability · Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al., 2025)
An occupation-level AI applicability score built from observed Bing Copilot use on work activities.
GPTs are GPTs occupation exposure · OpenAI / OpenResearch / University of Pennsylvania (Eloundou et al., 2023)
A research estimate of how exposed each occupation's tasks are to large language models.
AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) · Felten, Raj & Seamans (2021)
An academic measure linking AI capabilities to the abilities each occupation requires, with industry and geographic versions.
OECD AI Exposure Measure (AI Capability Gap) · OECD (AI Papers No. 59, 2026)
An OECD measure comparing what AI can currently do with what each occupation demands. A lower gap means higher potential exposure.
On the roadmap for employer-dynamics and training context. These are not ingested today and no figure on this site uses them.
Business Dynamics Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau
Business Dynamics Statistics measures the churn underneath employment totals: establishment and firm births and deaths, job creation and job destruction, and how those vary by firm age and size.
CareerOneStop data services · U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration
CareerOneStop is the Department of Labor's career information service. It packages federal occupation, training, credential and local program data into one set of tools and access-controlled data services.
The weighting of each input is on the methodology page, and release cadence, revisions and coverage limits are on about the data.