Templates & Tools for Trade Employers

Offer-ready skilled-trade salary bands, built from real, cited BLS wage data in seconds.

Quantify what a trade hire — and a bad one — really costs across the whole recruiting cycle.

Real, cited wage data for 10 core skilled trades — national, top-paying states, and major metros.

Ten ready-to-edit skilled-trade job descriptions, each with a BLS-cited pay range.

Stand up a DOL-registered apprenticeship — checklist, wage progression, and skill milestones.

One trade SOC, up to 12 of your metros — the Metro Wage Comparison Workbook ranks each market by its cited OEWS wage distribution.

Pick one trade — the State-by-State Trade Wage Atlas renders its cited OEWS wage distribution across all 50 states and DC, suppression shown honestly.

One metro in, twelve trades out — the Multi-Trade Metro Wage Report shows the cited OEWS wage distribution for your whole local labor market in one file.

Enter a trade offer for a metro; the Trade Offer Check Calculator shows exactly where it lands against the cited OEWS percentiles.

Anchor one trade's base wage to cited OEWS, enter your own replacement costs, and the Turnover & Retention Cost Model prices every departure.

Price a trades job posting against cited OEWS percentiles and drop the range into an editable template — a pricing and posting aid, no disclosure-law content.

Start percentage in, cited journeyman rate out — the Wage Progression Planner computes an apprentice's dollar wage at every step.

Read any BLS OEWS trade wage page correctly — percentiles, mean vs median, and suppression, explained plainly for owner-operators.

One trade, exhaustively — the Single-Trade Deep Wage Report shows cited OEWS national, all-state and all-metro pay in one workbook.

Benchmark the foreman seat, not the trade seat — cited OEWS for construction and mechanic first-line supervisors (47-1011 / 49-1011).

Electrician and foreman OEWS distributions plus offer-check and hiring-cost sheets — the electrical contractor's wage board in one kit.

HVAC mechanic, sheet metal and pipefitter OEWS distributions in one kit — plus offer-check and turnover math on your own numbers.

Millwright, machinery-mechanic and maintenance-worker OEWS distributions, an offer-check sheet and retention math — the industrial-maintenance wage board.

Plumber and foreman OEWS distributions plus offer-check and hiring-cost math — the plumbing contractor's wage board in one kit.

Base wage cited from OEWS, burden yours — the Loaded Labor Rate & Burden Calculator computes the fully-loaded hourly rate for your bid.

Headcount by trade and metro in, an annual base-wage payroll budget out — every line anchored to cited OEWS.

Three cited-data starters in one pack: compare a trade across your metros, check an offer against real OEWS percentiles, and learn to read the data.

Every SkilledMarkets tool in one purchase — all wage reports, geography cuts, trade kits and hiring calculators, each figure cited to BLS.