The Universal Standard
Over the past 25 years, we have invested our time, effort, and energy in the areas of labor market analysis, classification, modeling, and technical innovation. Our work allows you to unlock durable skills, titles, and occupations frameworks that enable interoperability across HR systems, education platforms, government agencies, and workforce technology providers all across the globe.
Universal Standard
34,000+ standardized skills
In the Lightcast Skills Taxonomy, including subcategories, skill types, descriptions, skill metadata curated by Lightcast, and more.
75,000+ standardized titles
In the Lightcast Titles Taxonomy, including unique machine-readable IDs, and more.
1,800+ specialized occupations
In the Lightcast Occupation Taxonomy, including machine-readable IDs, nested categories, and unique occupation types — to support structured analytics and smart mapping.
Title-to-skill and occupation insights.
Expanded labor market intelligence
Including Job Postings API, Compensation Benchmarks API, Career Pathways API, and countless other API options to power your labor market insights.
Universal Standard
Over the past 25 years, we have invested in labor market analysis, classification, modeling, and technical innovation -- so you can unlock a durable skills/title/occupation framework that enables interoperability across HR systems, education platforms, government agencies, and workforce technology providers worldwide.
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35,000+ standardized skills in the Lightcast Skills Taxonomy, including subcategories, skill types, descriptions, skill metadata curated by Lightcast, and more.
75,000+ standardized titles in the Lightcast Titles Taxonomy, including unique machine-readable IDs, and more.
1,800+ specialized occupations in the Lightcast Occupation Taxonomy, including machine-readable IDs, nested categories, and unique occupation types — to support structured analytics and smart mapping.
Title-to-skill and occupation insights.
Expanded labor market intelligence, including Job Postings API, Compensation Benchmarks API, Career Pathways API, and countless other API options to power your labor market insights.
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Lightcast Occupation Taxonomy
The Lightcast Occupation Taxonomy (LOT) is an advanced framework developed to classify and organize occupations with high precision and relevance to real-world labor market data. With over 1,800 specialized occupations in its library, it is designed to address the evolving nature of job roles captured from postings and professional profiles.
As we move up in the hierarchy, subsections are exclusive to their associated category. In other words, each specialized occupation is unique to its occupation, each occupation is unique to its occupation group, and each occupation group is unique to its career area. This prevents duplicate or overlapping data when analyzing more than one occupation.
The LOT uses a proprietary classification system of four different levels: career areas, occupation groups, occupations, and specialized occupations.
