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400 Richest Americans (Forbes)
  • Richest people in United States searchable by worth, state, age, and industry from 2006.
Alphabetic and Classified Indexes of Industries and Occupations (Census Bureau)
  • Alphabetic lists of occupation provide their Census code as well as SOC code
  • Classified index is arranged by Census code but cross links back to Standard Occupation Manual
  • Indexes of industry provide their Census Bureau code and link to the NAICS code
  • May also be downloaded in Excel, Word, Winzip, and PDF formats
America's Career InfoNet
  • Data on employment trends (growth and shrinkage), wages, and training
  • Includes state wage and occupational information
  • Link to America's Job Bank
Bureau of Labor Statistics
  • Press releases on employment and unemployment, earnings, employment cost index, consumer prices, producer prices, productivity, collective bargaining, and union membership
  • Time series on employment, prices, and productivity
  • The Data option under the main web page is arranged by various retrieval options; these options are subdivided by subject
Career Guide to Industries (BLS)
  • Describes industries (manufacturing, services, retail trade, government, etc) and the types of positions available
  • For example, notes that most careers in the advertising industry are concentrated in New York
  • Supplements the Occupational Outlook Handbook
Census Bureau
  • American Factfinder covers labor force, occupation, and industry through the Decennial Census and American Community Survey sections of Data Sets
  • Employment by industry to the county and occasionally city level also appears in the 2002 Economic Census; to the county and metropolitan area level in County Business Patterns
CityTownInfo
  • Detailed entries for 20,000 U.S. cities provide everything from area codes, time zones, latitude and longitude to ancestry of the population
  • Compares population, income, housing and crime to the state
  • Includes political contributions, lists of high schools, travel highlights, mortgage rates
  • Separate section for many of the cities with their most popular professions and corresponding annual salary ranges
 
Data Ferret (BLS/Census)
  • Data sets from the Current Population Survey and Survey of Income and Program Participation for easy or expert manipulation
    • Surveys update and enhance the Decennial Census with national, state, and metropolitan area information
    • Subjects include income, poverty, employment, education, health insurance, housing, aging, household and marital status
    • Income, poverty, and health insurance were the trial data sets as of May 31, 1997
Dictionary of Occupational Titles
  • Alphabetic index to Labor Department's list of official occupational titles
  • Provides numeric code for occupation but not a description
Directory of National Unions and Employee Associations
  • Shelved at Buhr (HD6504 .A3) with select years available via the Hathi Trust
  • Issues for 1971-79 have state membership data broken down by AFL-CIO, other national and local unions, professional and state, and local associations
 
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