Direct Hiring Demand Monitor
Labor demand, read every morning, straight from employers.
A daily report at 07:00 ET and data feed on open jobs at 280,000 employers, collected from their own career sites, applicant tracking systems and public employment services, plus an hourly file on listed companies. Same-store changes with stated uncertainty, occupation, metro and ticker signals, and a published track record against BLS.
- 5M+ live postings
- 280K+ employers
- 860+ tickers
- Daily at 07:00 ET, plus hourly updates
- 234k boards fetched
- 13.6M postings in ledger
- coverage events removed
- core change computed
- published07:00 ET
core open postings · 28d · seasonally adjusted
same-store index · 16 Jul = 10094.8
Why it's different
A signal you can read, not a count that drifts.
Raw posting counts move whenever coverage moves. The monitor holds its panel steady, states its uncertainty and grades its own coverage.
Same-store, not raw counts
Employers join the panel after 14 days. New boards, dead boards and catch-up fetches move the level, never the index or the rankings.
Uncertainty you can see
The headline carries a 95% interval, and a move that could be noise is reported as “changed little”. Most private labor indicators publish no uncertainty at all.
Coverage you can audit
Every edition is graded A, B or C by how completely employer boards were fetched, and both first prints and revisions are published.
What's in each edition
From the headline to the ticker, every morning.
Each edition opens with a seasonally adjusted 28-day headline and its interval, then breaks demand down by occupation, place and listed company.
- Headline core change: unadjusted over 7 days, seasonally adjusted over 28 days
- 355 detailed occupations and 23 major groups, ranked against the market
- All US states, 850+ metro areas and 150+ countries
- A ticker screen with organic change, weeks sustained and coverage flags
- Posted pay against BLS OEWS medians
The feed
The same numbers, as files you can load.
Every edition ships as data as well as a report, stamped and defined so a day's files stack onto the last.
- 18 data files every day plus a versioned data dictionary, with JSON and the report
- An hourly file at 15 minutes past each hour, with the postings opened and closed at each listed company
- Every row is stamped with its edition and never revised, so files stack into point-in-time history
Take it with you
Check the data before you call us.
The brief and the data dictionary are here to download.
- CSVData dictionaryEvery column in the feed, defined.Download
- PDFOne-page briefA tear sheet to share with your team.Download
Questions? Write to sales@metaintro.com for commercial terms, or support@metaintro.com for data and support.
Track record
Scored in public.
Every edition estimates the next BLS JOLTS job openings print before it is released. The estimate is logged in a file that ships with the edition, then scored against the first print once BLS publishes.
- Logged before every JOLTS release
- Scored against the BLS first print
- No interval shown until six months are scored
Who it's for
For teams that price, plan or study labor demand.
One edition serves the desk, the research team and the policy office.
Macro and rates
A daily read on labor demand between JOLTS releases, and an hourly one on listed companies.
Equity long/short
Ticker-level hiring with organic change, weeks sustained and coverage flags.
Quant research
Edition-stamped files that stack into point-in-time history.
Sell-side and buy-side economists
A same-store index with a stated interval and a public JOLTS track record.
Corporate strategy
Occupation and metro demand, ranked against the market.
Policy and workforce research
Demand by state, metro and occupation, with posted pay against OEWS.
How it compares
Daily and hourly, with its uncertainty and its revisions.
BLS JOLTS is the benchmark, but it arrives about five weeks after the month. Job-board aggregates arrive sooner, with reposts and coverage changes mixed into the trend.
Freshness
- Official statistics (BLS JOLTS)
- Monthly, about 5 weeks after the month
- Job-board aggregates
- Weekly to monthly
- Metaintro
- Daily at 07:00 ET, plus hourly updates
Source
- Official statistics (BLS JOLTS)
- Employer survey
- Job-board aggregates
- Job boards and reposts
- Metaintro
- Employer career sites and ATS, deduplicated by posting URL
Uncertainty
- Official statistics (BLS JOLTS)
- Published standard errors
- Job-board aggregates
- Rarely shown
- Metaintro
- 95% interval on every headline
Coverage changes
- Official statistics (BLS JOLTS)
- Survey reweighting
- Job-board aggregates
- Mixed into the trend
- Metaintro
- Flagged and kept out of the index
Revisions
- Official statistics (BLS JOLTS)
- Scheduled
- Job-board aggregates
- Revised silently
- Metaintro
- First print and revisions published
| Capability | Official statistics (BLS JOLTS) | Job-board aggregates | Metaintro |
|---|---|---|---|
| Freshness | Monthly, about 5 weeks after the month | Weekly to monthly | Daily at 07:00 ET, plus hourly updates |
| Source | Employer survey | Job boards and reposts | Employer career sites and ATS, deduplicated by posting URL |
| Uncertainty | Published standard errors | Rarely shown | 95% interval on every headline |
| Coverage changes | Survey reweighting | Mixed into the trend | Flagged and kept out of the index |
| Revisions | Scheduled | Revised silently | First print and revisions published |
Licensing and data handling
Employer sources in, no personal data out.
What goes into the monitor, what comes out, and the terms for trying it.
Employer sources
Built from job postings that employers publish on their career sites and applicant tracking systems, and from public statistics. A small share is retrieved through a service that completes automated access challenges.
No personal data
Delivered data are aggregates and employer-level counts, with no personal data.
- Evaluation
Evaluation license
The sample pack comes with an evaluation license, so your team can test the data first.
Who to write to
Sales handles commercial terms. Support answers questions about the data.
- sales@metaintro.com · commercial
- support@metaintro.com · data and support
Start with the sample pack
Read a full edition before you commit.
Tell us what you cover, whether macro, equities, research or policy, and we'll send the sample pack.
- The report, data.json and 18 CSV data files
- A data dictionary for every column
- An evaluation license for the sample pack
Request the sample pack
We reply within one business day.