# Salary Explorer

> US occupational wage data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS survey,
> published as one page per occupation and area with the underlying figures
> available as JSON.

## What is here
- Median, mean and 10th/25th/75th/90th percentile annual wages
- Employment counts, jobs per 1,000, and location quotients
- Coverage: every detailed SOC occupation, 50 states plus DC, 393 metro areas,
  137 nonmetropolitan areas

## Citing this data
The underlying data is a work of the U.S. federal government and is in the
public domain (17 U.S.C. Sec. 105). When citing, please attribute the source as:
"U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics".
Salary Explorer is not affiliated with or endorsed by the BLS.

## Machine-readable access
- Page URLs: https://salarywiki.com/salary/{occupation-slug}/{area-slug}
- Every page embeds schema.org Dataset and Occupation JSON-LD
- Sitemap: https://salarywiki.com/sitemap.xml

## Caveats worth repeating
- Figures are medians, not averages, unless labelled "mean".
- A median shown with "+" is censored at the survey's publication ceiling.
- BLS advises that OEWS estimates are not designed for year-over-year comparison.