The data behind TryHired's career pages, with its sources and limits.

Every number on a TryHired career page is copied from a published U.S. government table or the O*NET database and labelled with its source and reference period. TryHired matches each career to its federal occupation code, groups the figures by career and place, and adds a few clearly named measures with published formulas (skill match, pressure level). Nothing is estimated or modelled: if a source does not publish a value, the page says so.

This page includes information from the O*NET® 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. TryHired has modified all or some of this information. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications.

• Copied, not modelled. Wages, employment, projections and requirement shares come straight from the source tables. Median and mean are separate measures and are never averaged or combined.
• One occupation per career. Each career maps to one BLS/O*NET occupation. When the figures describe a broader occupation, the page names it.
• Places. City names map to metropolitan statistical areas by published rules (reviewed aliases, state qualifiers; a name used in several states needs the state). Metro figures describe the whole metro area, not city limits.
• Telework is the Occupational Requirements Survey's "ability to telework": whether the job permits it, not a count of remote jobs. ORS figures are 2025 preliminary estimates, and published bounds stay in words ("less than 0.5%").
• Education. "Typical entry-level education" is the BLS Employment Projections assignment. O*NET's figure is the most common answer among surveyed workers, shown with its share; it is called "most" only when that share is above 50%.
• Pressure level is the plain mean of four named O*NET work-context ratings (time pressure, consequence of error, conflict situations, unpleasant or angry people), 1–5. It describes occupations, not people, and is not a stress or happiness measure.
• Skill match correlates two occupations' O*NET skill profiles (importance × level, centred on the all-occupation mean), 0–100, only for occupations O*NET lists as related.
• Comparisons put two careers side by side on the same metric and year with published thresholds. There is never an overall winner.

Every response names the TryHired page to cite (tryhired_url), the primary sources with their reference periods and licences, and the limitations that apply. Missing values are null with a reason, never another metric.

• /api/v1/careers/search?q=nurse
• /api/v1/careers/registered-nurse · /salary · /salary/texas · /salary/dallas · /requirements · /outlook · /industries · /career-changes
• /api/v1/compare/lpn/registered-nurse

Example: get_local_salary(career: "registered nurse", place: "Dallas") answers with the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro median from BLS OEWS May 2025, the CBSA code, a note that metro figures are not city limits, and the TryHired page to cite. An ambiguous place ("Portland") gets a request for the state instead of a guess.

Privacy. No accounts, no personal data, no cookies, no session state. Logs keep the route, status and timing, never an IP address or free text.

• What any one person will earn, or what an employer will offer.
• Job vacancies: projected openings are yearly averages of growth and replacement needs.
• Local projections: BLS projections are national.
• Whether a job suits a health need or disability.
• Whether a license or certification is required in your state.
• Cause and effect: relationships across occupations are patterns, not explanations.

TryHired refreshes a source when it publishes a new release (OEWS each spring, Employment Projections each fall, O*NET twice a year, ORS final estimates when BLS publishes them) and logs each refresh here with its date. Datasets carry a version; the previous version stays listed in the log.

If a figure on TryHired does not match its source, email maid@tryhired.co with the page URL and the figure. We check it against the source table, correct the page if we were wrong, and record the correction and its date in the update log above.

BLS data is U.S. public domain; O*NET-derived fields are CC BY 4.0 and carry the O*NET notice above. Please credit "TryHired, from BLS data" (or "from BLS and O*NET data") and link the page or dataset you used. Each dataset page gives a citation line with its version.

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