Workforce and Employer Data

This section provides detailed information on Oklahoma’s workforce, including labor information on the wage expectations and availability of workers across the state. Wage expectations, skill and education levels, and worker availability stats as well as the economic data available from federal agencies like the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, come in handy when new or expanding businesses want to determine whether they can meet workforce needs.

Workforce Investment Area (WIA) Economic Profiles

Four- to six-page profiles with population, employment, wages, and commuting data produced by Policy, Research, and Economic Analysis Division at the Oklahoma Department of Commerce. Others will be added as they become available.

• Eastern & Northeastern Combined WIA Report 2011
• Central WIA Economic Profile 2011
• Southeast WIA Economic Profile 2009
• Northwest WIA Economic Profile 2012
• Southwest WIA Economic Profile 2009
• Northeast WIA Economic Profile
• South Central Oklahoma WIA Profile
• North Central Oklahoma WIA Profile 2010
• Tulsa WIA Economic Profile 2010
• Central WIA Economic Profile 2010
• East Central WIA Economic Profile 2011
• Southern WIA Economic Profile 2011
• Eastern WIA Economic Profile 2011

Governor’s Council Industry Workforce Reports

• Economic Impacts of High School Dropout Rates

Local Area Labor Force Studies

The University of Oklahoma’s Public Opinion Learning Laboratory conducts the studies. Please contact Dr. Amy Goodin at (405) 325-7111 for pricing and more information.
This series of local area labor force studies provides a variety of statistics and analysis about Oklahoma’s workforce, including:

• Profile of local labor force;
• Numbers of the underemployed;
• Commuting patterns;
• Willingness to change employers;
• Educational levels of Oklahoma’s labor pool.
  Go to All Oklahoma Labor Force Studies

Employment & Unemployment Data from Bureau of Labor Statistics

• Labor force statistics from the current population survey—provides national data on employment, unemployment, earnings, and other labor market topics by demographic characteristics.
• Non-farm payroll statistics—provides monthly national data by detailed industry on employment, hours, and earnings of workers on the payrolls of non-farm companies or organizations. This information is also provided covering individual states and geographic areas.
• Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages—provides comprehensive employment and wage data by industry and geographic area for workers covered by State Unemployment Insurance laws.
• Occupational employment statistics—provides annual data on employment and wages for about 750 occupations and 400 non-farm industries across the nation as well as occupational data by geographic area.
• Local area unemployment statistics—provides monthly and annual employment, unemployment, and labor force data for Census regions and divisions, states, counties, metropolitan areas, and with many cities—by place of residence.
• Mass layoff statistics—provides reports on mass layoff actions.
• Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS)—a new monthly study developed to address the need for data on job openings, hires, and turnovers.
• American Time Use Survey (ATUS)—collects information on how U.S. residents spend their time.
• Business employment dynamics—provides quarterly data on job gains and job loss throughout the U.S.
• Survey of employer-provided training—provides detailed information on training by major industry divisions and by establishment size.

Compensation & Working Conditions Data

• National Compensation Survey—provides and integrates compensation data from various separate BLS compensation surveys.
• Benefits data—provides comprehensive stats and analysis on incidence and provisions of selected employee benefit plans.
• Compensation cost trends—provides quarterly indices measuring change over time in labor costs and quarterly data measuring the level of average costs per hour worked.
• Wages—provides data on occupational wages for cities, broad geographic regions, and the nation.
• Safety and health stats—include data on illnesses and on-the-job injuries and fatalities.
• Collective bargaining—includes data on major lockouts or strikes as well as provides a file of collective bargaining agreements.

Productivity & Technology Data

• Quarterly labor productivity indices—provide information on labor productivity and related cost measures for major sectors of the economy, including non-farm businesses and manufacturing.
• Multifactor productivity data—provide annual indices for industries and major sectors of the economy that relate to output to labor and capital.
• Industry productivity data—provide annual indices of productivity for detailed industries.
• Foreign labor stats—provide comparative information by country on productivity and unit labor costs, compensation, labor force, employment and unemployment, and consumer prices.
• Oklahoma Resources Integrated General Information Network System (ORIGINS) through the Center for Economic and Management Research at OU.