Employment, Earnings, and Occupation Sources

Employment, earnings, and occupation sources

Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Wages, earnings, and employment data.
Encyclopedia of Careers and Vocational Guidance. (4 vols.)
Ref. HF 5381 .E52 (at OSF Library)
Occupational Outlook Handbook. Ref. HF 5381 .A1 Oc1
Includes job outlook, requirements, and some earnings information.
Salary Surveys from JobStar.
Links and descriptions of over 300 free salary surveys or summaries.
Stat-USA. (UST subscription database)
State of the Nation has current employment/unemployment data.

For more salary sources, see Salary Surveys.

Current Population Survey.
Data on the U.S. labor force. Look for tables under "Person Income" for "Source of Income," which includes data by industry.
Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics. ebook and Ref. HD 8051 .A63
Includes wages by occupation.
Labor Force Statistics.
Table 3 from the Current Population Survey gives earnings by occupational category and sex.
Statistical Abstract of the United States. Also Ref. HA 202
Tables for number of employed civilians by occupational category, sex, and race, and median earnings by occupational category by sex.

USA.gov.
The U.S. government's official web portal.
GPO Access.
Federal government web sites by topic.
Minnesota North Star. (State of Minnesota website)
Minnesota government links.
EPA Sector Notebooks.
Environmental and regulatory information on selected major industries.
Food and Drug Administration.
Regulation of food, drugs, medical devices, biologics, animal feed and drugs, cosmetics, radiation-emitting products (cell phones, lasers, microwaves) and more.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Covers work-related injuries, illnesses, and death.
Economic Report of the President.
The reports for the last several years are available and searchable online ("regulation," etc.)
Several chapters of the 2004 Economic Report covered regulation in the economy; it has useful regulatory information for some industries.