Advertised Salary Data API - JobsIndex by Aspen Tech Labs

Access US job postings with advertised salary data through the JobsIndex API, built by Aspen Tech Labs.

JobsIndex aggregates 6M+ active job listings in the US daily from over 175K employer source sites. Job data is collected from company career sites and ATS platforms, not scraped from job boards. That means clean compensation data and structured salary fields where employers have disclosed them.

This Actor serves two primary use cases: teams that want to publish salary-inclusive job listings on their platform, and teams that need structured compensation data for matching algorithms, AI model training, or workforce intelligence.

What You Can Use It For

• Power a job board, salary comparison tool, or job search feature with listings that include real employer-disclosed compensation data
• Feed a matching platform or recommendation engine with salary-filtered job data, filterable by role, company, category, or location
• Build compensation benchmarking workflows using real advertised salary data rather than estimated or surveyed figures
• Analyze advertised compensation trends by role, industry, or geography for pay transparency research, compensation planning, or labor market analytics
• Collect structured US job postings with salary fields for training datasets, research, or product development

Built-In Search Preset

This Actor is fixed to United States jobs internally. country is shown in the input example as United States, and the runtime always enforces that value even if a different value is submitted. Users can narrow the search by role, category, sub-category, industry, company, salary, posting age, employment type, seniority, or structured US location filters.

Quick Start

{
  "salary": "20h-30h",
  "city": "Chicago",
  "size": 5
}

Input Parameters

Parameter	Description	Example
salary	Salary amount or range filter.	20h-30h
what	Main job search query. Supports keywords, boolean logic, exact phrases, and field-targeted search such as @title engineer or @(title,description) (python).	nurse
where	Free-text location search. Supports place names, boolean logic, and field-targeted search such as @country United States or @(city,metro_area) (Denver). Prefer structured location fields for exact filters.	California
country	Fixed preset. Runtime always uses United States; changes are ignored.	United States
region	State, province, or region.	California
city	City filter.	New York
postal_code	Postal or ZIP code filter.	90210
metro_area	Metropolitan area filter.	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO
title	Job title filter.	Registered Nurse
company_name	Company name filter.	IBM
company_domain	Company website domain.	ibm.com
category	Job category.	Healthcare
sub_category	More specific job function or role within the enforced category.	Registered Nurse
industry	Company industry filter.	Food Products
posted	Relative posting age or ISO date.	1w
employment_type	Employment type.	Full-Time
remote	Work arrangement filter. Supported values: remote, on-site, hybrid.	remote
seniority	Seniority level.	Senior
page	Page number, starting from 0.	0
size	Number of results per page. Default 5, min 1, max 100.	5

Salary Filter Format

Use:

NUMBER[UNIT]

or:

NUMBER[UNIT]-NUMBER[UNIT]

Supported units:

• h - per hour
• d - per day
• w - per week
• m - per month
• y - per year

Examples:

• 20h-30h - hourly rate between 20 and 30
• 35h - fixed hourly rate
• 20h-200000y - range from hourly to yearly comparison

Advanced Filters

what and where support plain-text search, boolean logic, and field-targeted search.

If no field is provided, the API expands the search across a default set of relevant fields.

Plain keyword examples:

what = engineer OR manager
where = United States

Field-specific examples:

what = @title engineer OR manager
where = @country United States

Multi-field examples:

what = @(title,description) (python)
what = @(title,title_raw,description) (engineer OR manager)
what = @(title,description) (python AND developer)

where = @(country,region,city,metro_area,county,sub_city) (United States)
where = @(city,region,metro_area) (San Francisco OR California)
where = @(city,region,metro_area) (California)

When using where, avoid sending separate structured location parameters for the same request unless you want those structured parameters to take priority. For example, country, region, city, postal_code, and metro_area can override or narrow where.

Common job/content fields for what:

• title, title_raw, description, reference
• category, sub_category, seniority, industry, company_type
• company_name, company_domain, company_name_raw
• employment_type, remote, language
• posted, posted_raw, expired
• url_source, url_apply
• salary_value, salary_currency, salary_unit
• id

Common location fields for where:

• country, region, city, metro_area, county, sub_city, postal_code

Location Filtering

For precise location matching, use structured filters exposed for this Actor:

• region
• city
• postal_code
• metro_area

Use where only as a free-text location search when the structured location filters above are not set. If where is provided together with structured location filters, the structured filters take priority and where may be ignored or deprioritized.

Limits and Pagination

This Actor uses the JobsIndex jobs API. Results are paginated with page and size.

Parameter	Default	Min	Max
page	0	0	Depends on size and the item cap
size	5	1	100

Invalid page or size values can return 400 Invalid page or size parameters.

Item Caps

The maximum number of retrievable jobs depends on the query shape:

Query shape	Max items	Effective max size	Over-size behavior
No company filter	1000	100	Validation error; not silently capped
Company filter plus another keyword or filter	20	20	Silent cap with capping metadata
Company filter only	5	5	Silent cap with capping metadata

A company filter means company_name, company_domain, or a company field referenced inside what. Another keyword or filter means anything in what other than company_*, or a value in fields such as title, category, sub_category, industry, posted, salary, employment_type, or seniority where available on this Actor.

When a company-filtered request asks for size greater than the effective cap, the API returns up to the capped number of results instead of erroring. The response metadata includes:

• size_requested - the original requested size
• size_capped_by - "company" for the 5-item cap or "company|keywords" for the 20-item cap

On uncapped responses, size_requested and size_capped_by are not present.

No-company-filter requests are not silently capped. If the request exceeds the 1000-item retrieval window, the API can return 400 Item limit reached. Maximum of 1000 items can be retrieved.

Free-Text Query Limits

what and, where available, where support advanced matching syntax but have safety limits:

Limit	Value	Error behavior
Raw URL length before decoding	700 characters	400 'what' or 'where' parameters exceed 700 characters
Decoded text length	500 characters	400 MATCH input exceeds length limit
Combined operator characters: ?, +, pipe, @	20	400 Too many MATCH operators
Unsafe SQL-like keywords	blocked	400 Unsafe MATCH expression

Unsupported characters may be normalized before search. Unbalanced quotes and trailing @ characters may be stripped.

Field Validation

Invalid filter values can return 400 Invalid value for parameter: <name>. Common validation examples include malformed company domains, invalid dates or relative posted values, invalid salary format, invalid job IDs, unsupported location formats, or overly long field values.

Output

Each run stores job records in the default Apify dataset. The dataset schema includes an Overview table for the most useful fields and a Raw data (all fields) table for the complete JobsIndex record.

Example dataset item:

{
  "id": "3956505510037809027",
  "title": "Patient Coordinator",
  "company_name": "Mass General Brigham",
  "category": "Healthcare",
  "sub_category": "Patient Representative",
  "country": "United States",
  "region": "Massachusetts",
  "city": "Boston",
  "salary_value": "22.00",
  "salary_currency": "USD",
  "salary_unit": "HOUR",
  "employment_type": "Full-Time",
  "remote": "remote",
  "posted": "2026-04-20",
  "url_apply": "https://example.com/apply"
}

Field availability depends on the source job posting.

Custom Compensation Data

For custom wage data needs, bulk downloads, or tailored job feeds, contact us via JobsIndex or by email. You can also explore JobMarketPulse, our next-generation labor and job market intelligence platform.