Local Economy

Local Wages (Jobs and Pay)

Quarterly business locations (establishments), jobs and pay for the US, every state, metro area and county since 2015: total pay, average weekly pay, the change from a year earlier, and private-sector jobs and pay. Covers all jobs that pay into unemployment insurance.

The answer is {total, limit, offset, sort, order, as_of, rows, about}; as_of is the newest quarter, e.g. 2026-Q1.

get/local-wages

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.dataporium.io
  • URL: https://api.dataporium.io/local-wages
  • Auth: API key in query parameter apikey

Query parameters

area_typestring

country, state, metro or county

statestring

2-letter code or name

countystring

County name

county_fipsstring

5-digit county FIPS code

metrostring

Part of a metro area name

metro_codestring

Metro area CBSA code

area_codestring

US, state FIPS, county FIPS or CBSA code

yearinteger

Only this year

quarterinteger

Only this quarter (1 to 4)

latestboolean

true = only the newest quarter

sortstring

quarter (default), avg_weekly_wage, employment, establishments, total_wages, employment_change_1y_pct, avg_weekly_wage_change_1y_pct or area_name

orderstring

asc or desc

limitinteger

Rows per page, 1 to 1000 (default 100)

offsetinteger

Rows to skip, for paging

Response

Successful response (JSON).

object required

Changes

No recorded changes to this operation across all 1 revision of this API.