BLS OEWS
What is BLS OEWS?
Source: FAQ
How it shows up in a Study
Wage evidence in a Study comes from published OEWS releases, not from a private dataset a reader cannot open. Each figure drawn from the program carries its own trail: the source, the occupation, the geography, the period, and what was done to it. The Study also records which release it used. Re-open a Study next season and it still points at the data that existed when the conclusion was reached, not at whatever the program publishes later.
What a Reviewer checks
A Reviewer can open the same public table and look for the same figure. The practical questions are whether the occupation fits the work the shareholder-employee actually does, whether the geography and period match the facts of the engagement, and whether every change made to the published figure has a written reason attached. A figure that cannot be traced back to a named release is the first one to question.
Public source
The Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program is run by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, a federal statistical agency. It publishes wage estimates by occupation and geography as dated releases. Source: https://www.bls.gov/oes/
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