Billions of workforce signals. One interconnected intelligence layer.
With over 25 years' experience, Lightcast transforms fragmented data—from job postings, professional profiles, and government statistics—into the world's most comprehensive and trusted labor market intelligence.
Put Lightcast Data To Work For You3 billion
Job postings
6.3 million
companies
34,000
Skills
242 million
Salary observations
1.2 billion
careers profiles
165
countries
17
languages
1800+
Unique occupations
Where Our Data Comes From
Every day, organizations generate millions of data points from the world of work—individually, they're incomplete, but together, they tell the story of the labor market. Lightcast sources include:
Job Postings
Proprietary data from thousands of online sources. Reveals real-time information on skills, salaries, and overall demand.
Government Statistics
Public sources move more slowly, but provide important big-picture context. Lightcast enhances this data with unsuppression models that reveal information beyond what's officially published.
Professional Profiles
This data focuses on individuals' lived experience (from anonymized online resumes and similar sources), offering insight into how careers develop and skills are actually used.
Lightcast Creates Meaning From Messy Data.
Lightcast continuously cleans, links, validates, and enriches billions of workforce signals so organizations spend time making decisions instead of integrating data.
Lightcast Data Powers:
Work Intelligence
Understand how work happens.
Analyze occupations, skills, and tasks to optimize your workforce strategy.
Labor Market Intelligence
Understand the market.
Connect workforce supply, employer demand, wages, education, migration, demographics, and economic trends to understand labor markets locally or globally.
Organizational Intelligence
Understand organizations.
Analyze company workforces through hiring behavior, workforce composition, technology adoption, talent movement, geographic expansion, and organizational change.
Our insights, your workflow.
Choose the solution that fits your organization's needs. Wherever you work, we'll meet you there.
API
Embed data directly into your web applications, products, or custom dashboards with APIs, allowing maximum speed and flexibility.
Cloud Storage
Load regularly-updated Lightcast datasets directly into Amazon S3, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure, simplifying ingestion and large-scale analysis.
Data Shares
Query record-level Lightcast data directly in Snowflake, Databricks, or Google BigQuery, without building or maintaining ingestion pipelines.
SFTP
Integrate Lightcast data files into existing systems through Secure File Transfer Protocol, offering a safe, flexible option requiring minimal technical expertise.
Software
Lightcast software is designed to make our data as accessible and useful as possible,so businesses, educators, and communities can make better labor market decisions.
Professional Services
Partner with Lightcast experts to deliver custom analysis, strategic guidance, and workforce insights tailored to your organization's goals.
Built for AI.
Lightcast refines complex data into a clean, consistent, machine-readable format.
Compounded Insights
Lightcast data is greater than the sum of its parts. With unmatched breadth, depth, and historical context labor market data, we can correlate disparate signals, validate for quality, and battle-test for reliability. The result is the world's most comprehensive labor market intelligence.
Data You Can Trust
Customers rely on Lightcast to guide their most important workforce decisions—that's why transparency, quality, and responsibility are fundamental to our approach.
Transparent Methodology
Because Lightcast is proud to stand behind our data, we make our methodology clear. We clearly document what our data covers—and what it doesn't—so customers can be confident in every report and know when it's best applied.
Compliance & Privacy
Lightcast builds privacy safeguards into how workforce data is collected, processed, stored, and delivered. Our services are compliant by design with GDPR, CCPA, DPA, PIPEDA, and other applicable privacy requirements, and Lightcast has also achieved ISO 27001 certification. While every data point is based in a real-world observation, we make sure to protect personal information while preserving the market detail organizations need.
Data Quality & Validation
Lightcast uses AI and machine learning to clean, classify, and connect labor-market data at scale. Automated outputs are reviewed and refined by human experts who understand the context, exceptions, and nuance of the labor market. Ongoing monitoring, quality controls, and expert validation keep our taxonomies and insights consistent, current, and reliable.
A Common Language for Work
Data becomes intelligence when everything connects.
Every workforce dataset speaks a different language: job postings describe work one way. Online profiles describe it another. Governments classify occupations differently. Companies create their own job titles. Skills appear in thousands of variations.
Lightcast standardizes these fragmented signals into a single intelligence layer by mapping occupations, skills, tasks, companies, industries, technologies, credentials, and organizations into a compounded knowledge asset—every element informs the others. This connected foundation is what allows customers to answer complex workforce questions that disconnected datasets simply can't. Explore our taxonomies to learn more.
Transforming Data into Intelligence
Delivering the world's most comprehensive labor market intelligence takes more than just data.
Lightcast combines machine learning and human expertise to transform billions of raw observations into trusted workforce intelligence. To create structured, actionable insights out of the data that comes in, we constantly:
Resolve duplicate companies, people, jobs, and skills
Normalize occupations and job titles to consistent taxonomies
Map skills across industries and geographies
Connect organizations, workers, and labor markets
Validate data across multiple sources with AI models and expert review
Confident Decisions In Any Global Market
Lightcast data covers 165 countries, representing markets that make up 99% of the world's GDP.
Workforce decisions don’t stop at borders, and with Lightcast, your workforce data doesn't either. We deliver actionable, granular insights so you can easily understand local labor conditions in every market where you operate. Our four Global Data Sets organize every country by data coverage so you can make confident, informed workforce decisions worldwide.
Better Data For Better Decisions.
Comprehensive. Contextualized. Actionable.
Build your labor market strategy with the world's leading labor market intelligence.