Just Ask BLS— Wages and Job Outlook in Minutes
Ask questions in plain English and get instant answers from BLS—the federal source for occupational wages and 10-year employment projections
OEWS (Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics) is the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics program publishing annual employment and wage estimates for about 830 occupations across the nation, states, and metro areas, free through the OEWS tables and the Occupational Outlook Handbook.
Data source: BLS OEWS, May 2025. Last reviewed July 2026.
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- • "What do nurses earn in Texas?"
- • "Which jobs grow fastest by 2034?"
- and additional research queries...
"What's the median wage for registered nurses in our state?"
The median annual wage is $86,070.
That is 8% above the national median for registered nurses.
What is BLS OEWS data?
The Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) program at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes employment and wage estimates for about 830 occupations across the nation, every state, and hundreds of metro areas. Paired with the BLS Employment Projections, it shows what graduates earn and where the jobs are headed over the next decade.
New estimates are published each spring. See the official OEWS tables for every release, including the current May 2025 estimates.
Why Use BLS AI Agent?
Traditional BLS access means bulk Excel downloads and SOC code lookups. BLS AI Agent makes it effortless.
The Old Way
- ✗Download bulk OEWS Excel tables from bls.gov
- ✗Look up SOC codes for every occupation
- ✗Match programs to occupations by hand
- ✗Merge wage and projections files in Excel
- ✗Hours or days to get answers
With BLS AI Agent
- ✓Ask questions in plain English
- ✓Get instant, sourced wage answers
- ✓Compare states and metro areas automatically
- ✓Map programs to occupations via CIP-to-SOC
- ✓Minutes instead of hours
Questions You Can Ask
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BLS wage data query with natural language AI
Clema turns a plain-English question into an answer drawn from official BLS OEWS estimates and Employment Projections, with the source shown. It is the conversational alternative to downloading the OEWS tables or scripting the BLS public API, built for higher-ed teams who need wage answers, not spreadsheets.
AI agent for connecting programs to labor-market outcomes
One conversation joins BLS wages with IPEDS completions, College Scorecard earnings, and PSEO outcomes through the CIP-to-SOC crosswalk. Ask which occupations your programs feed, what they pay in your state, and how the outlook shifts through 2034, with the citation on every answer.
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Frequently
Asked Questions
OEWS, the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, is the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey that publishes annual employment and wage estimates for about 830 occupations. Estimates cover the nation, every state, and hundreds of metro areas, and are published free through the official OEWS tables.
OEWS is produced by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the federal agency for labor-market data. BLS surveys about 1.1 million business establishments over a three-year cycle and publishes the results each spring through the OEWS tables and occupation profiles on bls.gov.
Yes. BLS wage data is free and public. Anyone can download the OEWS tables from bls.gov, browse occupation profiles in the Occupational Outlook Handbook, or query the BLS public API. Clema queries that same official data in plain English.
Anything in the OEWS estimates and Employment Projections: median and percentile wages by occupation, employment by state and metro area, 10-year job outlook through 2034, and how your academic programs map to occupations through the CIP-to-SOC crosswalk. Every answer shows its source.
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Instead of downloading the OEWS Excel tables and matching SOC codes by hand, you ask questions in plain English and get an immediate answer with its source, so a wage benchmark that took an afternoon takes a minute.
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