Comprehensive. Contextualized. Actionable.
While labor market data has traditionally been fragmented and complex, Lightcast data creates clarity so that enterprises, educators, and the public sector can build their workforce strategies with confidence.
Lightcast has compiled more than 18 billion labor market data points, including job postings, career profiles, and compensation data, into a compounded knowledge asset.
It's a collection of labor market intelligence that draws on over 25 years of expertise in data classification, sophisticated machine learning models, and taxonomies of jobs and skills.
Better Data for Better Decisions
Through software, consulting, and data delivery, Lightcast provides an unparalleled view into skills, jobs, companies, professional profiles, and workforce trends. This empowers smarter labor market strategies that are trusted by businesses, education institutions, and governments worldwide.
Providing insight where you want it, when you need it, Lightcast sets the universal standard in labor and people intelligence.
Vetted and Validated
The data you see is the end result of an extensive and rigorous process—we don’t just scrape information from the web and call it a day. The combined efforts of our in-house experts and machine-learning models enrich, contextualize, and refine every element of our data.
We use each element to help understand the others. This creates compound insights that provide a clearer view of the entire global labor market.
Comprehensive and Compliant
Lightcast is the only provider with complete vertical integration, sourcing our own online job postings, GDPR/CCPA-compliant worker profiles and contacts, and unsuppressed government statistics from around the globe. We’re open with our methodology so that our customers have the understanding to make their biggest workforce decisions with confidence.
With over 18 billion data points and over 215,000 continuously-updated sources, Lightcast has over 25 years of experience providing unmatched intelligence for a rapidly-changing labor market.
Why It Matters
Making workforce decisions based on incomplete information is an unnecessary risk, and data that lacks enrichment and organization can be more misleading than helpful, but accurate, actionable intelligence at your fingertips can ensure you have everything you need to achieve your best outcomes. That’s true whether you’re an employer building a future-ready workforce strategy, in the public sector working to build a thriving community, or an education institution preparing learners for a career.
Nobody can afford to guess–and with Lightcast, there’s no need to.
Let's Talk Data
Whether you're building dashboards, training models, or shaping strategy, better data makes all the difference. Talk to the Data Pros at Lightcast and get direct access to the global standard in labor market intelligence.
Data Delivered to Fit Your Workflow
All Lightcast data is available through our software platforms, consulting services, and data delivery mechanisms, which include APIs, cloud storage and SFTP, and data warehouses.
API
Embed data directly into your web applications, products, or custom dashboards with APIs. They enable immediate data access, synchronization, and real-time operations.
Cloud Storage and SFTP
If you have a data platform like Amazon S3, Google Cloud, or Azure, we share data directly into your cloud environment or over SFTP, making data files readily available for ingestion.
Data Warehouse
