Compensation Tools

Metro Wage Comparison Workbook — One Trade Across Your Markets

The Metro Wage Comparison Workbook takes one trade SOC and up to 12 of your metros and renders each market's cited BLS OEWS wage distribution — the 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentiles, hourly and annual — side by side. A ranking sheet sorts your markets from most to least expensive to hire the role, so a multi-market contractor can see the spread at a glance when bidding or placing crew. Every metro cell carries its OEWS source string; where BLS suppresses or top-codes a figure the cell reads 'not released', never a guess. The figures are the published OEWS numbers loaded from the dataset — nothing here is asserted or interpolated, and no survey data of your own is entered.