Data Sources & Attributions
Last Updated: May 2026
Bespree uses extensive public data to power our Salary Analyzer, AI Resume Builder, and Career Explorer tools. We believe in total transparency regarding our information supply chain. This page outlines the primary sources used in production, plus important sources we have researched but do not currently use in live product surfaces.
Production Data Sources
These sources currently support public Bespree pages or product features.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
Wage estimates and local employment density are powered by the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2025 release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, retrieved by Bespree on May 21, 2026. Job outlook metrics are powered by the Employment Projections (EP) program.
- OEWS: hourly wage percentiles, median wages, mean wages, employment counts, and jobs-per-1,000 by occupation and metro.
- Employment Projections: national job outlook, projected openings, and growth context by occupation.
- Occupational Outlook Handbook: public-domain occupation summaries, work context, training notes, and similar occupation references. We do not use BLS/OOH photos.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. BLS.gov cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after retrieval.
O*NET OnLine (USDOL/ETA)
Skill suggestions, required knowledge areas, and daily tasks are curated using data from O*NET OnLine to help you build highly optimized, ATS-compliant resumes.
This product includes information from O*NET OnLine by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA.
Bespree has modified, summarized, and curated a subset of this information for use within our AI tools. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications.
Current O*NET-derived salary-page data comes from public O*NET OnLine pages, not the O*NET Web Services API. If Bespree later uses the Web Services API or reuses O*NET data inside gated product surfaces, we will review the additional API terms before launch.
Bespree Proprietary Data
Certain lists of technologies, software tools, and formatting recommendations are generated by Bespree's proprietary AI systems and editorial team. These are representative examples compiled by Bespree and are not sourced directly from government datasets.
Researched Sources Not Currently Used in Production
We also evaluate public and government-backed datasets before adding new career or salary features. The sources below are tracked for future enrichment, but they are not currently treated as canonical production sources for public salary pages.
Projections Central
We tested state-level employment projection data internally, but it is deferred from production because we did not find an explicit reuse license page. We will revisit it only after written permission, a clear reuse statement, or legal signoff.
CareerOneStop
CareerOneStop was reviewed as a useful DOL/ETA-backed wrapper around wage, training, outlook, and O*NET-style data. Bespree currently prefers primary sources such as BLS and public O*NET OnLine pages for clearer provenance and source control.
BLS JOLTS and QCEW
These BLS programs are public-domain sources with strong labor market value, but they are industry-based rather than occupation-based. They are better suited to future employer or industry analytics than role-specific salary pages.
Census ACS, IPUMS CPS, Data.gov, and OPM
These were reviewed as possible enrichment sources. ACS and IPUMS can support deeper labor-market research but require occupation crosswalks and statistical handling. Data.gov is a discovery catalog, and OPM focuses on federal workforce compensation, which is not a fit for our current hourly/trades salary pages.
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