DEEPCOMPS · EDITORIAL TEAM
Editorial Team
Every calculator, job page, license matrix, and transition ROI on DeepComps is sourced, modeled, and reviewed by named analysts. No anonymous content, no AI-generated career advice, no rewritten press releases.
How our editorial process works
- Sourcing. Every page declares the federal or professional-board dataset it draws from (BLS OES, BEA RPP, O*NET, NCSBN, NASDTEC, ARELLO, PT Compact). Self-reported salary aggregators are explicitly excluded.
- Modeling. A second analyst reproduces the headline numbers from raw source files before publish. Formula and assumptions are published on the page or linked from Methodology.
- Review. Each page lists a "last synced" date. Quarterly, we re-pull source data and diff. Material changes are recorded in the changelog.
- Corrections. Reader-submitted corrections are acknowledged within two business days and resolved within five. Process documented in our Corrections Policy.
Eleanor Vance — Senior Labor Market Analyst
Role: Leads wage and occupation methodology at DeepComps. Owns the BLS OES × BEA RPP real-wage pipeline, occupation-page editorial, and percentile interpretation guidelines.
Background: Five years at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on the Occupational Employment Statistics program, working on annual estimates publication and methodology revisions. M.A. in Economics, University of Michigan; B.A. in Statistics. Prior to BLS, research assistant at a regional Federal Reserve labor-market research group.
Focus areas: wage distribution analysis, regional price-level adjustment, occupation crosswalks (SOC ↔ O*NET ↔ industry), top-coding and small-cell suppression issues in OES.
Publishes: all occupation hub pages, the Real Take-Home Pay calculator methodology, and the Cost of Living Comparison formula.
Contact: eleanor@deepcomps.com
Daniel Ortega — Compensation Methodology Lead
Role: Owns transition ROI math, interstate license-reciprocity coding, and the comparison-page (A vs B) editorial framework. Reviews every calculator before formula changes ship.
Background: Former economist at a state workforce agency, where he worked on labor-shortage analysis, occupational forecasting, and licensing-board liaison. M.S. in Applied Economics; B.S. from the Cornell University ILR School. Has tracked the Nurse Licensure Compact, PT Compact, and NASDTEC interstate teaching agreements since their respective expansion years.
Focus areas: career-change NPV modeling, O*NET skill-importance matching, compact / reciprocity legal status coding, certification ROI under wage uncertainty.
Publishes: all license-reciprocity matrices, career transition ROI analyses, and profession comparison pages.
Contact: daniel@deepcomps.com
Independence & conflicts
Neither analyst holds active employment, equity, or contractor relationships with bootcamps, certification vendors, recruiting firms, or staffing agencies that appear on DeepComps. Affiliate links, where present on transition or comparison pages, are clearly labeled and don't influence ranking, placement, or the calculator outputs. Any future changes to this policy will be disclosed here and dated.
Want to contribute?
We occasionally bring on contributing analysts for specific occupation deep-dives — particularly licensed trades, healthcare specialties, and emerging interstate-compact professions. Pitches with a draft outline and links to prior published work go to editorial@deepcomps.com. We don't accept generic guest posts, sponsored content, or AI-generated drafts.