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Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
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Areas
- Occupational Employment and Wages in Metro and Nonmetro Areas; Stella Fayer and Audrey Watson, November 2020 (PDF)
- Occupational Employment and Wage Patterns in Nonmetropolitan Areas; John Jones, November 2011 (PDF)
- Area Focus - Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA; Tanner Beam, August 2011 (PDF)
- Gulf Coast Occupational Employment and Wages; Swati Patel, October 2010 (PDF)
- Occupational employment patterns in areas with low unemployment rates; Ben Cover, September 2009 (PDF)
- Area focus - Elkhart-Goshen, IN; July 2009 (PDF)
- OEWS Maps
See also Location Quotient
Career
- Careers with options: Occupations with jobs in many industries; Elka Torpey and Audrey Watson, Spring 2014
- Using OES occupation profiles in a job search; Chris Cunningham, Spring 2013
- Mapping out a career: An analysis of geographic concentration of occupations; Audrey Watson, Fall 2010
- Career beginnings for business majors; Dina Itkin, Winter 2008-09
Industries
- Comparing occupational employment and wages in public and private elementary and secondary schools; Audrey Watson, February 2023
- Occupational Employment and Wages in State and Local Government; Audrey Watson, December 2021 (PDF)
- Agriculture: occupational employment and wages; Stella Fayer, July 2014
- Measuring occupational concentration by industry; Audrey Watson, February 2014 (PDF)
- An Occupational Comparison of Private and State Colleges and Universities; Audrey Watson, January 2011 (PDF)
- An Occupational Analysis of Industries with Employment Gains; Fatemeh Hajiha and Audrey Watson, February 2010 (PDF)
- An Occupational Comparison of Selected Retail Trade Industries; Joe Kane, December 2009 (PDF)
- An Occupational Analysis of Industries with the Most Job Losses; Fatemeh Hajiha and Audrey Watson, November 2009 (PDF)
- Industry focus - Food services and drinking places; Rebecca Keller, September 2009 (PDF)
- Occupational employment in the not-for-profit sector; Zack Warren, November 2008
Location Quotient
- Mapping "The Hunger Games": Using location quotients to find the Districts of Panem; Elizabeth Cross, February 2017
- Using Location Quotients to Analyze Occupational Data; Ben Cover, April 2011 (PDF)
See also Areas
Methodology
- Model-based estimates for the Occupational Employment Statistics program; Matthew Dey, David S. Piccone Jr, and Stephen M. Miller, September 2019
Occupations
- As manufacturing sector changes, production occupations disappear: an analysis of employment from 2007-20; Paul Garbarino and Elizabeth Cross, November 2023
- Do you want to work where the people are? These jobs are most common in areas with high (or low) population growth; Andrew Mattingly, April 2023
- Occupational employment and wage differences across cohorts of establishments; Elizabeth Weber Handwerker, David S. Piccone Jr, and Elizabeth Cross, January 2020
- A look at employment and wages in U.S. establishments with foreign ownership; Erik Friesenhahn, Stella Fayer, and Audrey Watson, October 2019 (PDF)
- Employment trends by typical entry-level education requirement; Audrey L. Watson, September 2017
- Employment and Wages in Healthcare Occupations; Stella Fayer and Audrey Watson, December 2015 (PDF)
- Spotlight on Statistics: BLS Statistics by Occupation; Audrey Watson, August 2014 (PDF)
- Implementing the 2010 Standard Occupational Classification in the Occupational Employment Statistics program; Audrey Watson, May 2013
- Employment and wages in community and social service occupations; John Jones, October 2012 (PDF)
- Architecture and Engineering Occupations; Audrey Watson, February 2012 (PDF)
- Construction employment: a visual essay; Ben Cover, November 2011
- Medical physicists and health physicists: Radiation occupations; Jeff Lapointe, Summer 2011
- How occupational employment is affected by mass layoffs; Dina Itkin and Laurie Salmon, June 2011
- House work: Jobs in residential upkeep; Amy Bierer, Winter 2010-11
- Jobs on the Environment; June 2009 (PDF)
- SOC Home Page
See also Wages
STEM
The STEM definition used in most of these publications is only one of many possible definitions of STEM. For the purpose of these publications, STEM is defined to consist of computer and mathematical, architecture and engineering, and life and physical science occupations, as well as managerial and postsecondary teaching occupations related to these functional areas and sales occupations requiring scientific or technical knowledge at the postsecondary level.
- STEM data sets
- Employment and wages for alternate definitions of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) occupations; Audrey Watson, June 2025
- STEM occupations: past, present, and future; Stella Fayer, Alan Lacey and Audrey Watson, January 2017 (PDF)
- An overview of employment and wages in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) groups; John Jones, April 2014 (PDF)
- Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) occupations: a visual essay; Ben Cover, John Jones, and Audrey Watson, May 2011
Wages
- A Look at Jobs Paying Less Than $15.00 Per Hour; Andrew Mattingly and Audrey Watson, September 2024
- Occupational wages in Animal Crossing: New Horizons; Elizabeth Cross, June 2020
- The Game of Life versus real life: How the data compare; Elizabeth Cross, June 2018
- Purchasing power: using wage statistics with regional price parities to create a standard for comparing wages across U.S. areas; Ben Cover, April 2016
- How much could I be earning? Using Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics data during salary negotiations (PDF)
- Measuring wage inequality within and across U.S. metropolitan areas, 2003-13; J. Chris Cunningham, September 2015
- Wage differentials: how jobseekers can use them to analyze occupational wage and cost of living data by U.S. area; Ben Cover, September 2014 (PDF)
- How Jobseekers and Employers Can Use Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) Data during Wage and Salary Discussions; Clayton Lindsay, April 2010 (PDF)
- What do OES data have to say about increasing wage inequality?; John Jones, June 2009
- How shifting occupational composition has affected the real average wage; Rebecca Keller, June 2009
- The effect of business ownership change on occupational employment and wages; Dina Itkin, September 2008
- Beyond averages: Other ways to look at occupational wages; Ben Cover, Winter 2007-08
- Establishment wage differentials; Julia Lane, Laurie Salmon, and Jim Spletzer, April 2007
Last Modified Date: March 17, 2026