{
  "dataset": {
    "title": "Ohio Nurse Aide wage estimates — BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), occupation 31-1131 Nursing Assistants",
    "publisher": "U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)",
    "program": "Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS)",
    "occupation_code": "31-1131",
    "occupation_title": "Nursing Assistants",
    "vintage": "May 2025 estimates (OEWS reference year 2025; BLS period A01, year 2025)",
    "retrieved": "2026-08-22",
    "retrieved_by": "Alia Healthcare website maintenance",
    "retrieval_method": "Live query of the BLS Public Data API v1 (https://api.bls.gov/publicAPI/v1/timeseries/data/) using the exact OEWS time-series IDs documented below. Every numeric value in this file came back from that API response on the retrieval date; nothing here is estimated, interpolated, or carried over from an older release.",
    "update_cadence": "Annual. Refreshed shortly after each BLS OEWS release (typically spring of the following year, e.g. May 2025 estimates released spring 2026). The `retrieved` field changes only when a figure is re-fetched.",
    "series_id_format": "Every figure maps to one BLS series: {series_id_prefix}{datatype_code}, where series_id_prefix is listed per area and datatype_code comes from datatype_map. Series IDs follow the documented OEWS scheme OE|U(seasonal)|{area_code}|{industry}|{occupation}|{datatype} (https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/oe/oe.txt).",
    "datatype_map": {
      "01": "employment",
      "03": "hourly_mean_wage",
      "04": "annual_mean_wage",
      "06": "hourly_10th_percentile",
      "07": "hourly_25th_percentile",
      "08": "hourly_median_wage",
      "09": "hourly_75th_percentile",
      "10": "hourly_90th_percentile",
      "11": "annual_10th_percentile",
      "12": "annual_25th_percentile",
      "13": "annual_median_wage",
      "14": "annual_75th_percentile",
      "15": "annual_90th_percentile"
    },
    "units": {
      "employment": "estimated number of wage and salary workers",
      "hourly_wages": "USD per hour (BLS rounds to the nearest cent)",
      "annual_wages": "USD per year (BLS rounds to the nearest dollar)"
    },
    "coverage_notes": [
      "OEWS covers wage and salary workers in nonfarm establishments. Self-employed, independent-contractor, and agency-per-diem arrangements are outside the survey frame.",
      "Estimates pool every industry (nursing homes, hospitals, home health, schools, government, etc.), not long-term care alone.",
      "Wages are straight-time base pay as reported by employers: they exclude most shift differentials, overtime premiums, bonuses, and the cash value of benefits.",
      "Metro-area employment figures do not sum to the statewide figure because metropolitan statistical areas overlap county lines and nonmetropolitan Ohio workers are counted only in the statewide estimate."
    ],
    "primary_sources": [
      {
        "label": "BLS OEWS occupational profile, Nurses Aides (31-1131) — publication landing for the figures",
        "url": "https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes311131.htm"
      },
      {
        "label": "BLS Public Data API v1 — the endpoint queried on 2026-08-22 (POST the series IDs listed per area)",
        "url": "https://api.bls.gov/publicAPI/v1/timeseries/data/"
      },
      {
        "label": "BLS OEWS Tables hub (current location of state/metro OEWS tables; legacy static pages redirect here)",
        "url": "https://www.bls.gov/oes/tables.htm"
      },
      {
        "label": "OEWS time-series documentation and mapping files (series ID format, area/datatype codes)",
        "url": "https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/oe/"
      }
    ]
  },
  "areas": [
    {
      "id": "ohio-statewide",
      "area": "Ohio — statewide",
      "area_type": "state",
      "bls_area_code": "3900000",
      "series_id_prefix": "OEUS3900000000000311131",
      "pending": false,
      "employment_2025": 63280,
      "hourly_wages_usd_2025": {
        "mean": 19.48,
        "p10": 16.86,
        "p25": 17.93,
        "median": 18.76,
        "p75": 21.44,
        "p90": 22.39
      },
      "annual_wages_usd_2025": {
        "mean": 40520,
        "p10": 35060,
        "p25": 37300,
        "median": 39010,
        "p75": 44590,
        "p90": 46570
      },
      "bls_footnote_codes": [],
      "retrieved": "2026-08-22",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "BLS OEWS May 2025 — Ohio state estimates, SOC 31-1131 (via BLS Public Data API v1, series OEUS3900000000000311131xx)",
          "url": "https://api.bls.gov/publicAPI/v1/timeseries/data/"
        },
        {
          "label": "BLS OEWS Tables — Ohio (publication hub)",
          "url": "https://www.bls.gov/oes/tables.htm"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "columbus-oh-metro",
      "area": "Columbus, OH metropolitan statistical area",
      "area_type": "metro",
      "bls_area_code": "0018140",
      "series_id_prefix": "OEUM0018140000000311131",
      "pending": false,
      "employment_2025": 10020,
      "hourly_wages_usd_2025": {
        "mean": 20.21,
        "p10": 18.03,
        "p25": 18.38,
        "median": 20.66,
        "p75": 22.13,
        "p90": 22.71
      },
      "annual_wages_usd_2025": {
        "mean": 42030,
        "p10": 37510,
        "p25": 38230,
        "median": 42970,
        "p75": 46030,
        "p90": 47230
      },
      "bls_footnote_codes": [],
      "retrieved": "2026-08-22",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "BLS OEWS May 2025 — Columbus, OH metro estimates, SOC 31-1131 (via BLS Public Data API v1, series OEUM0018140000000311131xx)",
          "url": "https://api.bls.gov/publicAPI/v1/timeseries/data/"
        },
        {
          "label": "BLS OEWS Tables — metropolitan areas (publication hub)",
          "url": "https://www.bls.gov/oes/tables.htm"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "cleveland-oh-metro",
      "area": "Cleveland, OH metropolitan statistical area",
      "area_type": "metro",
      "bls_area_code": "0017410",
      "series_id_prefix": "OEUM0017410000000311131",
      "pending": false,
      "employment_2025": 13060,
      "hourly_wages_usd_2025": {
        "mean": 19.51,
        "p10": 17.06,
        "p25": 18.20,
        "median": 18.76,
        "p75": 21.64,
        "p90": 22.46
      },
      "annual_wages_usd_2025": {
        "mean": 40590,
        "p10": 35480,
        "p25": 37850,
        "median": 39010,
        "p75": 45000,
        "p90": 46710
      },
      "bls_footnote_codes": [],
      "retrieved": "2026-08-22",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "BLS OEWS May 2025 — Cleveland, OH metro estimates, SOC 31-1131 (via BLS Public Data API v1, series OEUM0017410000000311131xx)",
          "url": "https://api.bls.gov/publicAPI/v1/timeseries/data/"
        },
        {
          "label": "BLS OEWS Tables — metropolitan areas (publication hub)",
          "url": "https://www.bls.gov/oes/tables.htm"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "cincinnati-oh-ky-in-metro",
      "area": "Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metropolitan statistical area",
      "area_type": "metro",
      "bls_area_code": "0017140",
      "series_id_prefix": "OEUM0017140000000311131",
      "pending": false,
      "employment_2025": 11390,
      "hourly_wages_usd_2025": {
        "mean": 20.17,
        "p10": 17.93,
        "p25": 18.41,
        "median": 19.40,
        "p75": 21.77,
        "p90": 22.69
      },
      "annual_wages_usd_2025": {
        "mean": 41950,
        "p10": 37300,
        "p25": 38300,
        "median": 40350,
        "p75": 45290,
        "p90": 47180
      },
      "bls_footnote_codes": [],
      "retrieved": "2026-08-22",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "BLS OEWS May 2025 — Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metro estimates, SOC 31-1131 (via BLS Public Data API v1, series OEUM0017140000000311131xx)",
          "url": "https://api.bls.gov/publicAPI/v1/timeseries/data/"
        },
        {
          "label": "BLS OEWS Tables — metropolitan areas (publication hub)",
          "url": "https://www.bls.gov/oes/tables.htm"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "united-states",
      "area": "United States — national reference",
      "area_type": "national",
      "bls_area_code": "0000000",
      "series_id_prefix": "OEUN0000000000000311131",
      "pending": false,
      "employment_2025": 1448910,
      "hourly_wages_usd_2025": {
        "mean": 20.53,
        "p10": 16.32,
        "p25": 17.91,
        "median": 20.32,
        "p75": 22.70,
        "p90": 24.99
      },
      "annual_wages_usd_2025": {
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        "p10": 33940,
        "p25": 37260,
        "median": 42260,
        "p75": 47220,
        "p90": 51980
      },
      "bls_footnote_codes": [],
      "retrieved": "2026-08-22",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "BLS OEWS May 2025 — national estimates, SOC 31-1131 (via BLS Public Data API v1, series OEUN0000000000000311131xx)",
          "url": "https://api.bls.gov/publicAPI/v1/timeseries/data/"
        },
        {
          "label": "BLS OEWS occupational profile, Nursing Assistants (31-1131)",
          "url": "https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes311131.htm"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}