💰 Salary Data Search — BLS Compensation Benchmarks by Occupation, State & Year

Pull verified US salary data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) for any occupation + state combination — mean, median, 25th / 75th / 90th percentile wages, employment counts, year-over-year change. A drop-in alternative to H1BGrader, Levels.fyi, Glassdoor Premium, Payscale, and LinkedIn Salary Insights — with no subscription and authoritative government source.

Why BLS Salary Search Beats Levels.fyi, Glassdoor, Payscale & LinkedIn

Feature	NexGenData Salary Search	H1BGrader	Levels.fyi	Glassdoor Premium	Payscale	LinkedIn Salary
Cost	Pay-per-event, no subscription	Free w/ ads	Free + paid tiers	Enterprise contract	$$$	Premium subscription
Data source	Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)	USCIS H-1B records	Self-reported	Self-reported	Self-reported	Self-reported
Authoritative source	Yes — US gov	USCIS LCA filings	Crowd-sourced	Crowd-sourced	Crowd-sourced	Crowd-sourced
Coverage	800+ occupations, all 50 states	H-1B-eligible roles only	Tech roles	All industries	All industries	All industries
Percentiles	25th / 50th / 75th / 90th	25th / 50th / 75th	Yes	Yes (paid)	Yes (paid)	Range
Employment counts	Yes — jobs per state	No	No	Limited	Limited	No
YoY change	Yes (multi-year history)	Limited	Limited	Limited	Limited	Limited
Bulk export	CSV / JSON / Excel / API	Manual	Plan-gated	Enterprise feed	Plan-gated	None
Auth	Apify token	None (web only)	Account	Account + plan	Account + plan	LinkedIn Premium

Most HR + comp + recruiting teams pick this scraper because it is authoritative (US government BLS data, not crowd-sourced), bulk-friendly unlike LinkedIn Salary or Levels.fyi, and cheaper than Glassdoor Premium's enterprise contract. JSON ships straight into your comp-bands spreadsheet.

What You Get

Per occupation + state combination, the output includes:

• Occupation title + SOC code (Standard Occupational Classification)
• State + state code
• Employment — total jobs in this occupation in this state
• Hourly wages — mean, 10th, 25th, 50th (median), 75th, 90th percentile
• Annual wages — mean, 10th, 25th, 50th (median), 75th, 90th percentile
• Location quotient — concentration relative to national average
• Year — BLS data year
• YoY wage change where multi-year requested
• National benchmark for comparison
• Source URL + BLS release date + scrape timestamp

Output streams to a clean Apify dataset — CSV, JSON, Excel, RSS, or API.

Use Cases

• HR + comp teams — build pay bands grounded in government data instead of crowd-sourced Glassdoor noise
• Recruiting + sourcing — set realistic offer ranges per role per metro
• Immigration / H-1B prep — cross-reference BLS percentiles with Department of Labor prevailing-wage requirements
• PE / VC + due-diligence — model labor-cost assumptions for a portfolio company per state
• Academic + policy research — occupational labor-market analysis with authoritative source
• Workforce planners — identify states with high concentration of a target occupation
• Career sites + comp-transparency tools — power a public salary lookup with credible BLS numbers

Quick Start

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run_input = {
    "occupation": "software developer",
    "state": "CA",
    "maxResults": 25,
}
run = client.actor("nexgendata/salary-data-search").call(run_input=run_input)
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item.get("occupation"), item.get("state"), item.get("annualMean"))

Pricing

Pay-per-event. Small Actor Start fee + per-row fee. No subscription, no minimum, no seat fee. Run a one-off lookup for $0.01 or refresh 10,000 occupation + state pairs nightly — unit cost is flat.

Compare to Glassdoor Premium's enterprise contract, Payscale's per-seat plan, or LinkedIn Salary which is locked behind LinkedIn Premium and not bulk-callable — this actor pays for itself on the first batch.

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FAQ

Is the data authoritative? Yes — sourced from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program. This is the gold standard for US labor-market data.

How fresh is the data? BLS publishes annual data with quarterly updates. The actor pulls the most recent BLS release at runtime.

Coverage? 800+ occupations (SOC codes), all 50 US states + DC + Puerto Rico + most major metros.

Why use this over Glassdoor or Levels.fyi? Both are crowd-sourced and self-reported, with selection-bias problems. BLS is a mandatory employer survey covering tens of millions of workers — it is the methodological gold standard for "what does X role pay in Y state".

Drop-in for prevailing-wage research? Yes — the BLS percentiles align with the Department of Labor's prevailing-wage methodology for H-1B / PERM filings.

Bulk lookups? Yes — pass an array of occupation / state pairs in one run.

Output format? JSON by default; CSV / Excel / RSS via the dataset API.

Can I schedule it monthly? Yes — native Apify scheduling. Recommended for any team that maintains live comp-band dashboards.

About NexGenData

NexGenData publishes 260+ buyer-intent actors covering SEC filings, YC alumni, lead generation, competitive intelligence, stock fundamentals across 30+ exchanges, and more. All pay-per-result. Browse the full catalog at https://apify.com/nexgendata?fpr=2ayu9b

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Every NexGenData actor uses pay-per-event pricing — you only pay for results that actually land in your dataset. No monthly minimum, no seat fees, no surprise overage bills.

• Actor Start: a single-event charge each time you spin the actor up (scaled to memory size)
• Result: charged per item written to the default dataset
• No charge for retries, internal proxy rotation, or failed sub-requests — those are absorbed by the platform

If you only need the data once a quarter, you only pay once a quarter. If you scale to millions of records, the unit cost stays the same.

Apify Platform Bonus

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Integration Surface

Every actor in the NexGenData catalog can be triggered from:

• Apify console — point-and-click run
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• Apify Python / JS SDKs — programmatic batch
• Zapier, Make.com, n8n — official integrations
• MCP — many actors are exposed as MCP tools for Claude / ChatGPT / Cursor agents
• Schedules — built-in cron for daily / weekly / monthly runs
• Webhooks — POST results to any HTTPS endpoint on dataset write

Support

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