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title: "Data sources · CareerFlip"
description: "Where CareerFlip's official pay figures come from, and the licence each one is used under."
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# Data sources

Official pay figures on CareerFlip come from the government statistics below, under the licences shown. None of these publishers has checked or endorsed how we use their data. Pay from live job ads comes from Adzuna and is labelled where it appears.

## Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics

[US Bureau of Labor Statistics](https://www.bls.gov/oes/)

**What we use it for:** US pay by occupation, on career directions, /pay-check and the role guides.

**Licence:** [Public domain (US government work)](https://www.bls.gov/opub/copyright-information.htm)

**Credit:** Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics.

## Job Bank wages

[Employment and Social Development Canada](https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/adad580f-76b0-4502-bd05-20c125de9116)

**What we use it for:** Canadian pay by occupation, on career directions, /pay-check and the role guides.

**Licence:** [Open Government Licence – Canada](https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada)

**Credit:** Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.

## O*NET® 31.0 Database

[US Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration](https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html)

**What we use it for:** Matching US career directions to official occupations, and their names.

**Licence:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

**Credit:** This page includes information from the O*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. Sico Software has modified all or some of this information. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications.

## OaSIS (Occupational and Skills Information System) 2025

[Employment and Social Development Canada](https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/10ce43bd-fb58-4969-806b-4bffebc87bec)

**What we use it for:** Matching Canadian career directions to official occupations, and their names.

**Licence:** [Open Government Licence – Canada](https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada)

**Credit:** Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.

## SOC 2020 coding index

[Office for National Statistics](https://www.ons.gov.uk/methodology/classificationsandstandards/standardoccupationalclassificationsoc/soc2020/soc2020volume2codingrulesandconventions)

**What we use it for:** Matching UK career directions to official occupations, and their names.

**Licence:** [Open Government Licence v3.0](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/)

**Credit:** Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

## Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings

[Office for National Statistics](https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours)

**What we use it for:** UK pay by occupation, on career directions.

**Licence:** [Open Government Licence v3.0](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/)

**Credit:** Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

We match these figures to the jobs CareerFlip suggests. To ask what we changed in a dataset, [write to us](https://careerflip.app/support).