DEEPCOMPS · SOURCES

Data Sources

Every dataset DeepComps relies on, with source URLs, refresh cadence, license, and last-synced timestamps.

Compensation

  • PRIMARY BLS Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) Annual — May release
  • PUBLIC DOMAIN Wage percentiles (P10/P25/P50/P75/P90) and employment counts by SOC code × state and metro area. bls.gov/oes Annual

Cost of living

  • PRIMARY BEA Regional Price Parities (RPP) Annual
  • PUBLIC DOMAIN Price-level differences across states and metro areas, broken into goods, services, and rents. bea.gov/RPP Annual

Skills & occupational characteristics

  • PRIMARY O*NET (US Department of Labor) Quarterly
  • CC-BY 4.0 Skill importance ratings, task statements, knowledge/abilities, and education/experience requirements by SOC code. onetonline.org Quarterly

Licensing

  • NURSING NCSBN — Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Monthly diff
  • URL ncsbn.org/nurse-licensure-compact — member states, eligibility rules, primary-state-of-residence framework. Monthly
  • PT PT Compact Commission Quarterly
  • URL ptcompact.org — member states, compact privilege fees, eligibility, expiration rules. Quarterly
  • TEACHING NASDTEC Interstate Agreement Quarterly
  • URL nasdtec.net — interstate agreement participation by state, additional requirements per receiving state. Quarterly
  • REAL ESTATE ARELLO — Real Estate Licensing Boards Quarterly
  • URL arello.org — partial reciprocity matrix, named-state recognition, Florida 8-state mutual recognition specifics. Quarterly

Tax

  • FED IRS — federal brackets + FICA + standard deduction Annual (Jan)
  • STATE State revenue departments — individual income tax tables Annual

What we don't use

  • Glassdoor, Levels.fyi, salary.com, Payscale — self-report aggregators have selection bias toward users who post. We may reference these as a labeled secondary signal for tech-specific total comp where BLS top-coding obscures the upper tail, but never as primary.
  • LinkedIn salary insights — proprietary, opaque sample, can't be third-party-validated.
  • Survey panels — non-representative; opaque weighting.