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Chapter VIII · JOB

Jobs & Workforce

Jobs and workforce data is information on hiring and employment — job postings, employee profiles, headcount, and attrition — collected from public sources and read as a signal of a company's plans.

13 providers tracked13 verifiedAs of 2026-07-02

The primer

Workforce data is assembled from job postings, professional profiles, and payroll-adjacent signals, then resolved to individual employers. It shows where a company is hiring, how fast its headcount is changing, and which skills it is competing for. Investors read it as a leading indicator of expansion, cost pressure, and strategic pivots, and to map talent flows between competitors. The questions that matter are how postings are deduplicated, how profiles are kept current, and how cleanly the data ties back to public tickers.

The register

Every jobs & workforce provider on file. Verified means the site is live, on its own brand, and editorially checked — never paid placement. Listings are informational, not investment advice.

ProviderGeographySinceDeliveryPrice band
CoresignalVerifiedSamplePublic web data on companies, employees, and job postings at scale.Lithuania2016API, S3$50–150k
Freestyle MediaVerifiedData on 1.5mm jobs across 6k companies. Founded in 2018; 2 employees.US
Greenwich.HRVerifiedLabour-market data from real-time job-posting collection.US2014API, Dashboard$50–150k
LightcastVerifiedLabor-market analytics and job-posting data deduplicated from tens of thousands of sources.Global2000API, Dashboard$150k+
LinkUpVerifiedJob-listing data sourced directly from company career sites for hiring-trend signals.Global2007API, S3$50–150k
Live Data TechnologiesVerifiedReal-time job-change and workforce data on millions of professionals.US2018API, Feed$150k+
People Data LabsVerifiedPerson and company datasets compiled from public sources.US2015API$50–150k
Revelio LabsVerifiedSampleWorkforce intelligence built from public profiles and postings to track headcount and hiring.Global2018API, S3, Dashboard$150k+
TalentNeuronVerifiedGlobal labor-market and talent intelligence for workforce planning and hiring analysis.Global2011Dashboard, API$150k+
TalismaticVerifiedOur dataset contains job market data/employment data - both live and historical.
TrendeoVerifiedData on company capital expenditures over $30mm or 60 jobs created worldwide, available in near real time.France
U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsVerifiedSampleFree US employment, wage, and labour-market statistics with a public API.US1884API, BulkFree
U.S. Census BureauVerifiedSampleFree demographic, business, and economic data via public APIs.US1790API, BulkFree

Elsewhere in the atlas

Previous chapter: Supply Chain & Shipping. Next chapter: Weather & Agriculture. All 20 categories are defined in the glossary; the full register is on the front page, and the market counts are in the Atlas Briefing.