What the job is paid where the work is
A rate in a bid has to be enough to hire somebody where the work is done. The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes, once a year, what each occupation is paid and how many people hold it, nationally, by state and by metropolitan area. Occupational wages keeps those figures beside the GSA ceiling rates already on file, so a rate can be read against the local market before it goes into a price.
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Every state, or every metropolitan area in one
The Occupational wages screen is under Intelligence in the menu, in More of the market. Search an occupation by words or by its code, and open it. The national figures lead: how many hold the job, the hourly median and the annual median.
Below that is a table by state, or by the metropolitan areas within one state: employment, the hourly median, the 10th, 25th, 75th and 90th percentiles and the annual median, sorted by whichever column you press. Open an area for every occupation in it.
- The estimate year is named on the screen
- A metropolitan area that crosses state lines is listed under each state it is in
- A figure at the top of the published range is marked as that, not guessed
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One link from the GSA rate to the market
A labor rate role in the app shows what that title has been awarded on the GSA schedules. One more link under it opens the same job here, so the ceiling the government has accepted and what the market pays can be read one after the other.
Between the two sits your own rate. A rate far over the market is hard to defend, and one under it is hard to staff. Read with the wage determination for the place, it is the whole of what a labor category in a price volume is checked against.
- The floor, from the wage determination
- The market, from these figures
- The ceiling, from the GSA labor rates
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What the figures are
The figures are the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics estimates: what employers of every kind reported paying each occupation, across all industries, for the May of the year named. A median is the middle of what people in the job are paid, and the percentiles show the spread, so a role usually filled by somebody senior can be priced at the 75th rather than the middle.
Occupations are named by the federal Standard Occupational Classification, which is not the same as a labor category on a contract. Matching the two is a judgment, which is why the screen shows the occupation title and its code beside every figure.
Where it stops
Occupational wages comes with every paid plan. The figures are estimates for all employers and all industries, not what the government pays, not a ceiling rate and not a wage determination. They are published once a year for the May before, so they trail the market by a year or more. Some figures are withheld by the Bureau and show as not available.
Related
- Labor ratesThe ceiling rates awarded on the GSA schedules.
- Wage determinations NewThe floor a covered contract must pay.
- Bid worksheetThe price volume the rates go into.
- The platform NewWhere this sits among the eight parts of the product.
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