Short articles from our own research on government records, each with its data shown and its method stated. Every figure comes from public government records, and each article states the date its data is current to.
The list has 16 articles so far, the newest published October 20, 2026. They cover H-1B filings and the employers that sponsor, the layoff notices employers have filed, and the wage-and-hour cases in which the Labor Department found a violation, which are also on each employer's record. An article about one employer is linked from that employer's page.
Layoffs · October 20, 2026 · 5 min read
Who lost a job held for three years or more, why it ended, how many had written notice, who was working again in January 2026 by industry and kind of work, and what the next job paid.
Layoffs · October 20, 2026 · 2 min read
What state layoff notices and Labor Department H-1B filings show for Amazon: the notices over the past year, the sites, and the sponsorship record.
Data guide · October 19, 2026 · 6 min read
What a regional price parity of 95 or 110 means, how BEA builds one, how 387 metro areas spread around 100, why rent drives it and how the site uses it for pay after cost of living.
Data guide · October 19, 2026 · 12 min read
The columns and symbols of the OEWS workbooks, what a wage and a percentile mean, how precise the numbers are, and how the H-1B wage levels are built from them.
Data guide · October 19, 2026 · 8 min read
The fields of a Wage and Hour case, the laws behind the numbers, what back wages agreed to pay and penalties assessed mean, and the cases a copy of the dataset leaves out.
Data guide · October 19, 2026 · 14 min read
The fields of an LCA, the case statuses, wage units and wage levels, and what the quarterly files leave out, with what 661,885 certified filings show.
Data guide · October 19, 2026 · 15 min read
What the notices can say, why some are missing, the federal rules and the state lists, the fields of a WARN notice and how we count them, with what a year of notices shows.
Layoffs · October 19, 2026 · 2 min read
The state layoff notices filed by Kroger, its warehouse company and its grocery chains: 19 notices and at least 3,066 workers in a year, with the wage and H-1B records alongside.
Layoffs · October 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Netflix job cuts are in the news. Here is what the public records hold: the layoff notices filed with states in the past year, and the certified H-1B wage filings by year, occupation and offered wage.
Layoffs and H-1B · October 12, 2026 · 4 min read
Layoff notices and certified H-1B filings for Microsoft and Oracle side by side: the past year's notices, the year before, the same three months of filings a year apart, and the latest months.
Wage and hour · October 11, 2026 · 5 min read
Child labor violations went from 2.2% of DOL's concluded cases in fiscal 2016 to 5.8% in 2025, with penalties up from $1.9 million to $37.2 million. Where they are found, and what a case looks like.
Pay and cost of living · October 11, 2026 · 4 min read
Median pay for software developers in 116 metros, divided by each metro's prices. San Jose stays first, and cheaper metros climb the list.
Wage and hour · October 6, 2026 · 5 min read
Restaurants and hotels make up a quarter of the wage-and-hour cases in which DOL found a violation. The chains with the most cases, who a case names, and how child labor findings differ by brand.
Layoffs and H-1B · October 5, 2026 · 4 min read
Employers filed 4,099 layoff notices in 12 months, and 54 employers with large notices also sponsor H-1B workers at scale. Who they are, and the proposal to end the 60-day grace period.
H-1B · October 5, 2026 · 4 min read
Level IV gets four entries in the H-1B selection and Level I gets one. What real filings show about the four wage levels, and what they pay for software developers and seven other occupations.
H-1B · October 5, 2026 · 4 min read
The same three months, two years: total filings, how the 300 biggest sponsors moved, and how many employers file again.
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Wage data: U.S. Department of Labor OFLC LCA Disclosure Data and U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS. LCA filings reflect sponsored-worker wage offers, which skew toward mid-large employers and specific occupations — treat any estimate built from a small sample cautiously. Informational only; not legal, immigration, or financial advice.