What it returns
Pay ranges for about 830 occupations across the United States, every state and every metro area, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey (May 2025 release, covering about 1.1 million employers).
Area name and type, occupation code and title, employment, jobs per 1,000, location quotient, mean hourly and annual wage, and 10th, 25th, median, 75th and 90th percentile hourly and annual wages.
Common uses
Salary benchmarking and compensation planning, job-offer and pay-equity checks, recruiting and job-post pay ranges, relocation and cost comparisons, workforce and site-selection research. Pay per record. Wages above the survey's top reporting band are not published by BLS and come back empty.
Request
POST https://api.pushbuild.com/salary-benchmarks/run with a JSON body. Send your key in the X-API-Key header.
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
occupations | list of strings | Job titles or keywords (all words must match) or SOC codes such as 15-1252. Leave empty for all occupations. |
locations | list of strings | US (national), state names or abbreviations, or metro area names such as Boston or Austin. A state abbreviation also matches its metro areas. Leave empty for everywhere. |
areaTypes | list of strings | Limit to national, state or metro. |
minEmployment | integer | Skip occupations with fewer jobs than this in the area. |
sortBy | string: annualMedian, annualMean, employment, locationQuotient | Order of results, highest first. Default: "annualMedian". |
maxItems | integer | Maximum items to return (1-500). Default: 100. |
Example
curl -X POST https://api.pushbuild.com/salary-benchmarks/run \
-H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"occupations": ["software developers", "registered nurses"], "locations": ["US", "MA", "Austin"], "maxItems": 20}'Response
{"count": 20, "truncated": false, "seconds": 1.4, "items": [ { ... } ]}Each call returns up to 500 items. Records that fail validation or are not found are flagged in the items and not charged.
Pricing
Pay only for results returned: $0.40 per 1,000 records. No charge for errors or empty searches.
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