{
 "name": "tryhired-pay-by-geography",
 "id": "https://tryhired.co/data/pay-by-geography/",
 "title": "TryHired Pay by Geography: occupation wages by U.S. state and metropolitan area (BLS OEWS May 2025)",
 "description": "Wages for every career with a live TryHired page in each U.S. state (plus the District of Columbia) and each metropolitan statistical area where BLS publishes an estimate: median, mean, 10th and 90th percentile annual wages, median hourly wage, employment and the employment relative standard error. Metro rows carry the BLS area title, CBSA code and every state of a multi-state metro.",
 "version": "2026.10",
 "updated": "2026-10-26",
 "publisher": {
  "name": "TryHired",
  "url": "https://tryhired.co"
 },
 "license": "U.S. public domain (BLS); attribution requested",
 "sources": [
  {
   "id": "oews",
   "geography": "national, state, metropolitan statistical area",
   "license": "Public domain (work of the U.S. federal government); TryHired asks for attribution",
   "name": "U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS)",
   "notes": "Wage and salary workers; excludes the self-employed. Medians and means are distinct measures.",
   "reference_period": "May 2025",
   "url": "https://www.bls.gov/oes/tables.htm"
  },
  {
   "id": "geo",
   "license": "Public domain (work of the U.S. federal government); TryHired asks for attribution",
   "name": "OMB Bulletin 23-01 metropolitan statistical area delineations (as used by BLS OEWS May 2025)",
   "reference_period": "2023 delineations",
   "url": "https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/msa_def.htm"
  }
 ],
 "rows": 48090,
 "resources": [
  {
   "path": "pay-by-geography.csv",
   "format": "csv",
   "mediatype": "text/csv",
   "bytes": 5721976,
   "sha256": "2901c7b77257918e3c3a96585de0f2e0fcb74fc74c74fdd1ab53e6ced82e221e"
  },
  {
   "path": "pay-by-geography.json",
   "format": "json",
   "mediatype": "application/json",
   "bytes": 16710617,
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  }
 ],
 "schema": {
  "fields": [
   {
    "name": "slug",
    "description": "TryHired career identifier"
   },
   {
    "name": "soc_code",
    "description": "2018 SOC code"
   },
   {
    "name": "geo_type",
    "description": "State or Metropolitan Statistical Area"
   },
   {
    "name": "geo_code",
    "description": "USPS state code or CBSA code (OMB 23-01)"
   },
   {
    "name": "bls_area_title",
    "description": "BLS area title (a metro title is not a city boundary)"
   },
   {
    "name": "states",
    "description": "State code(s) the area covers"
   },
   {
    "name": "median_annual_wage",
    "description": "Median annual wage, USD"
   },
   {
    "name": "mean_annual_wage",
    "description": "Mean annual wage, USD"
   },
   {
    "name": "p10_annual_wage",
    "description": "10th percentile, USD"
   },
   {
    "name": "p90_annual_wage",
    "description": "90th percentile, USD"
   },
   {
    "name": "median_hourly_wage",
    "description": "Median hourly wage, USD"
   },
   {
    "name": "employment",
    "description": "Wage and salary employment"
   },
   {
    "name": "employment_rse_pct",
    "description": "Relative standard error of the employment estimate, percent (BLS)"
   },
   {
    "name": "tryhired_url",
    "description": "Live TryHired page for this state, if any"
   }
  ]
 },
 "limitations": [
  "Metro figures describe the whole metropolitan statistical area, not city limits.",
  "Blank values are not published by BLS (suppressed or not available).",
  "Wages are not adjusted for prices; do not compare across places as purchasing power.",
  "No metro projections exist; none are implied."
 ],
 "transformations": "Values are copied from the sources without modelling; derived fields (pressure / social-contact levels, skill match, pay difference) use the published formulas in the field descriptions and https://tryhired.co/data/#methodology.",
 "reference_period": "May 2025 (BLS OEWS)",
 "methodology": "https://tryhired.co/data/#methodology",
 "corrections": "https://tryhired.co/data/#corrections"
}