12/6/2024 - Current Employment Statistics are available through 11/2024. Total national civilian unemployment rate nudged up to 4.2%. See BLS chart.

11/1/2024 - Current Employment Statistics are available through 10/2024. Total national civilian unemployment rate remains at 4.1%. See BLS chart.

10/23/2024 - We apologize for the unexpected interruptions of our services late this afternoon. Our hosting service was making some updates to our platform and did not expect any interruptions. Unfortunately they were wrong!

10/4/2024 - Current Employment Statistics are available through 9/2024. Total national civilian unemployment rate at 4.1%. See BLS chart.

8/2/2024 - Current Employment Statistics are available through 7/2024. Total national civilian unemployment rate increased to 4.3%. See BLS chart.

7/19/2024 - Fresh look to the https://skilltran.com web site !

7/2/2024 - IMPORTANT DATA UPDATES !!!    
OEWS Wages - May 2023 (as released April 3, 2024) and Census Employment and Wages - 2023 (as released January 2024) are now available in both web-based products and in updates to our PC based Job Browser Pro software. These changes do impact estimates of employment at the DOT level.

6/7/2024 - Current Employment Statistics are available through 5/2024. Total national civilian unemployment rate is at 4.0%. See BLS chart.

5/3/2024 - Current Employment Statistics are available through 4/2024. Total national civilian unemployment rate is at 3.9%. See BLS chart.

4/23/2024 - 4:15 pm PTZ. Oh what fun it is to migrate! Login issues reported by some customers from this morning have been fixed! Let us know of any difficulty to you might be experiencing with our services.

4/23/2024 - 11:50 pm PTZ. Migration took a little bit longer than anticipated, but all systems should be working properly. Let us know if something is not quite right!

4/22/2024 - All SkillTRAN Web Products/Services will be unavailable on 4/23/2024 from 9:30 PM to 10:30 PM Pacific Time Zone while we complete data migration to a new database server. 

4/8/2024 - Current Employment Statistics are available through 3/2024. Total national civilian unemployment rate is at 3.8%. See BLS chart.

4/8/2024 8:30 am PTZ - OASYS Web Issue Resolved. You should now be able to save new client records again.

4/8/2024 7:45 AM PTZ - OASYS Web Issue - We are experiencing an issue saving new client records at the moment. We are working to resolve the issue promptly. We will post a notice here when fixed.

3/22/2024 - New Product Features. Browse Groups on the main opening menu are now grouped by function. Search by Occupations, Popular "Transferability Search" systems, Industry / Early Return to Work (Notice the new NAICS search to look for lighter duty, graduated return to work ideas), Interest, Training, or Military to Civilian. Job Browser Pro Web and OASYS Web customers can also filter the displayed list by selecting one or more Filters - say Sedentary and Unskilled. At the bottom of each screen is also a "DOT Estimate Report" button to quickly get this report for the selected list. The Description tab now has a "Basic DOT Copy" button - click to copy the DOT basic information, then paste into an external application or document. On the Reports tab, notice the new "Show Report" button at the top of page. This makes it easy to Select a previously stored and named report format, then just click the "Show Report" button to build the report for you.

3/11/2024 - Current Employment Statistics are available through 2/2024. Total national civilian unemployment rate increased to 3.9%. See BLS chart.

2/16/2024 - FINAL SECOND WAVE ORS Data - Occupational Requirements Survey is now available in Job Browser Pro PC & Web and in OASYS Web! This latest release has data on 477 of the 848 Civilian SOC groups, covering about 90% of the US labor force. We will make more details available to you soon.

2/2/2024 - Current Employment Statistics are available through 1/2024. Total national civilian unemployment rate remains at 3.7%. See BLS chart.

Quickview Codes (available in the Job Description tab) can be copied and pasted to another document.

12/21/2023 - MORE training videos posted!

12/18/2023 - We have added a new feature in OASYS Web that also enables review of any type browse group (code) system when adding work history. We also fixed an issue with the generation of displayed, DOCx, XLSx and/or PDF reports. 

12/8/2023 - Current Employment Statistics uploaded through 10/2023. Total national civilian unemployment rate is 3.7%. See BLS chart.

11/21/2023 - Canadian Wage Data has been updated to work with the latest NOC 2021 codes. From the Labor Market Information Group Employment/Wages tab, click the Canadian flag icon, then choose the Province and Sub-Area, then click the "Get Canadian Wage Data" button.

11/13/2023 - We have updated various database files. These include the new May 2022 OEWS data, September 2022 Employment Projections, 2022 Census employment data, new NAICS 2022 industry coding, and significant enhancements to the way we link NAICS 2022 industries to the DOT. This last enhancement required 6 months to review and update more than 30,000 links between the new NAICS 2022 and the 12,761 DOT occupations. The net result of this effort is an increase in how the SkillTRAN Industry Context method is able to estimate on average more than 90% of employment for most occupational groups.

8/21/2023 - We upgraded our web server to give you better performance and shorter wait times for many queries and reports. Reports should also generate more quickly, too. Please let us know what you think.

Our research and development work continues to enable us to bring you the latest (April 2022) OEWS data. This latest data set fully embraces the SOC 2018 system, though creates 10 different "aggregated" SOC groups for reporting of wages and employment numbers. It also has fully adopted the 2022 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). This has triggered a lengthy review of how we connect each DOT occupation to the new SOC and now to the new NAICS. So far, we have manually changed more than 25,000 cross references. The meticulous review of this essential data file is critical to our DOT Estimation process. The end result is increased accuracy in our estimation and more complete coverage of all the industries reported in the OEWS for each SOC group. We thank you for your patience while we approach the conclusion of this key research.

4/24/2023 - Latest SkillTRAN written comments to the Office of Management & Budget about the Occupational Requirements Survey (ORS). Click here for PDF.

2/17/2023 - Latest SkillTRAN written comments to the Bureau of Labor Statistics about the Occupational Requirements Survey (ORS). Click here for PDF.

1/11/2023 - The format of the Occupational Requirements Survey (ORS) data available in Job Browser Pro (PC & Web) and in OASYS Web was updated today to improve organization, reporting and visual presentation and to improve use in smaller screens (such as portrait/landscape modes on a Smart Phone). 

1/6/2023 - Current Employment Statistics available through 12/2022. Total civilian unemployment rate dropped to 3.5%. See BLS chart.

12/14/2022 - Occupational Requirements Survey (ORS) preliminary data for 2022 is now available on the web and Job Browser Pro PC products. There are 426 SOC Groups covered in this release, which is about 50.2% of the 848 civilian SOC occupations, but these cover about 91.7% of the current labor force.

12/2/2022 - Current Employment Statistics uploaded through 11/2022. Total civilian unemployment rate remains at 3.7%. See BLS chart.

11/21/2022 - All SkillTRAN Web sites and services will be unavailable from 12:15 am to 1:15 am Pacific Time on 11/24/2022 for a network upgrade.

11/5/2022 - Current Employment Statistics uploaded through 10/2022. Total civilian unemployment rate increased to 3.7%. See BLS chart.

10/11/2022 - Current Employment Statistics uploaded through 9/2022. Total civilian unemployment rate now at 3.5%. See BLS chart.

9/10/2022 Job Browser Pro Web and OASYS Web now include a Labor Market Distribution graph on the DOT Estimate page to better show data in terms of labor market share by Strength and SVP for all of the DOT occupations in the selected SOC Group. ALSO (by popular request), we have added a 'Show AIR-SSA' button to the Requirements tab for a selected occupation to show certain values from O*NET associated with SSA-sponsored research conducted by the American Institute of Research (AIR). These values were suggested in the year 2000 to SSA. Use discretion with these reported values based on the sample size (N) of observations and source shown for each value.

9/2/2022 - Current Employment Statistics uploaded through 8/2022. Total civilian unemployment rate rose to 3.7%. See BLS chart.

8/22/20222 - County Business Patterns for 2020 for the US, States, MSA, County and ZIP code areas updated today.

8/15/2022 - Current Employment Statistics uploaded through 7/2022. Total civilian unemployment rate at 3.5%. See BLS chart.

7/13/2022 - Current Employment Statistics uploaded through 6/2022. Total civilian unemployment rate remains at 3.6%. See BLS chart.

6/3/2022 - Current Employment Statistics uploaded through 5/2022. Total civilian unemployment rate remains at 3.6%. See BLS chart.

5/26/2022 - We have updated our web-based services (and Job Browser Pro PC version to 1.7.4.1) to better align the DOT estimates produced in each. There is some small residual variation attributable to differing levels of mathematic precision. Please let us know of any specific examples where this does not seem to be accurate.

5/13/2022 - We have updated our web-based services (and Job Browser Pro PC version 1.7.4) with the new OEWS 2021 Wage and Salary data. This release today also includes changes to how we link every DOT occupation to NAICS industries. This release eliminates all double counting of employment statistics and is the result of many months of intense research by SkillTRAN. There will be more updates in September when long term updates to the Projections data finally synchronizes with the newer OEWS structure again based on SOC 2018. We also have 2021 Census Data for wages and employment. 

5/6/2022 - Current Employment Statistics uploaded through 4/2022. Total civilian unemployment rate remains at 3.6%. See BLS chart.

4/7/2022- We have deployed some additional security protections which may require you to clear your browser cache and reload to this site. Or try another browser.

4/1/2022 - Current Employment Statistics uploaded through 3/2022. Total civilian unemployment rate at 3.6%. See BLS chart.

3/14/2022 - ATTENTION FIREFOX USERS - A new 'feature' in Firefox displays your requested PDF report format in a Firefox PDF viewer. To actually save the report, click the Download Icon at the upper right of the screen. The report will be saved to your Downloads folder.

3/4/2022 - Current Employment Statistics uploaded through 2/2022. Total civilian unemployment rate at 3.8%. See BLS chart.

2/16/2022 - OASYS Web & TSS Customers: Older reports are now available again when you click the "Show Past Reports" button on a selected client. New reports are being archived again as well.

2/15/2022 - ATTENTION ALL WEB-BASED CUSTOMERS - Logins restored. SORRY about the interruption!

2/11/2022 - OASYS Web & TSS customers: If you need a report, be sure to generate it and download it as a DOCx, PDF, or XLSX at the time you generate it. Since 2/7/2022, new reports have not been stored at our service provider and all previously encrypted and stored reports are not available for retrieval. We are working to resolve this issue with our service provider.

2/7/2022 - 7:30 pm PTZ. Sorry for the service disruption earlier today. Issue resolved and services working properly now.

2/4/2022 - Current Employment Statistics uploaded through 1/2022. Total civilian unemployment rate at 4.0%. See BLS chart.

1/10/2022 - Occupational Requirements Survey (ORS) preliminary data for 2021 is now available on the web and Job Browser Pro PC products.

1/7/2022 - Current Employment Statistics uploaded through 12/2021. Total civilian unemployment rate at 3.9%. See BLS chart.

12/3/2021 - Current Employment Statistics uploaded through 11/2021. Total civilian unemployment rate at 4.2%. See BLS chart.

12/1/2021 - Job Browser Pro Web and OASYS Web will now remember your MyList choices, preferred Description Tab format and last Labor Market Area from one session to the next. Under Tips/Settings, you can increase the amount of idle time prior to logout (default is 20 minutes).

11/5/2021 - Current Employment Statistics uploaded through 10/2021. Total civilian unemployment rate at 4.6%. See BLS chart.

10/8/2021 - Current Employment Statistics uploaded through 9/2021. Total civilian unemployment rate at 4.8%. See BLS chart.

9/3/2021 - NEW!!! VIDEO from CareerOneStop.org now available in Job Browser Pro Web and OASYS Web.

Current Employment Statistics uploaded through 8/2021. Total civilian unemployment rate at 5.2%. See BLS chart.

9/2/2021 - New 18 minute video posted reviewing the various data sources used in SkillTRAN products and services: SkillTRAN Data Resources

8/6/2021 - Current Employment Statistics uploaded through 7/2021. Total civilian unemployment rate at 5.4%. See BLS chart.

8/1/2021 - Industry references used in the DOT Estimate (Job Browser Pro Web and OASYS Web) have been refreshed to align with the release of Job Browser Pro PC version 1.7.3.

7/2/2021 - Current Employment Statistics uploaded through 6/2021. Total civilian unemployment rate at 5.9%. See BLS chart.

6/7/2021 - Current Employment Statistics uploaded through 5/2021. Total civilian unemployment rate declined to 5.8%. See BLS chart.

5/27/2021 - ZIP Code based Country Business Patterns is updated for 2019.

5/25/2021 - Sorting of long lists of occupations has been sped up, particularly for TSA and Worker Trait Search results.

5/12/2021 - Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OES/OEWS) are now available for May 2020 in web-based products. Updates to the PC products will be available in June.

5/7/2021 - Current Employment Statistics uploaded through 4/2021. Total civilian unemployment rate rose slightly to 6.1%. See BLS chart.

4/22/2021 - County Business Patterns for the US, States, MSA, and County areas updated today. ZIP code data will not be updated until release in June 2021.

4/15/2021 - The new DOT Estimate feature for a group of occupations selected via a Worker Trait Search now prepares a report of estimated DOT employment for the group by DOCx, PDF, AND XLSX Spreadsheet! Use this feature to quickly prepare for common hypotheticals!

4/2/2021 - Current Employment Statistics uploaded through 3/2021. Total civilian unemployment rate continues to decline to 6.0%. See BLS chart.

3/15/2021 - BIG CHANGES IN SYSTEMS & FEATURES: ORS 2020 / Quick View Button / NEW!!!! DOT ESTIMATE REPORT FOR A GROUP OF OCCUPATIONS FROM WORKER TRAIT SEARCH / User Analytics / SOC 2018 Codes / EMPLOYMENT PROJECTIONS: 2019-2029 / CENSUS 2020 Codes / Fresh Full-Time/Part-Time Data. See details here: Recent Changes in Web-Based Products

3/5/2021 - Current Employment Statistics uploaded through 2/2021. Total civilian unemployment rate continues to decline to 6.2%. See BLS chart.

2/5/2021 - Current Employment Statistics uploaded through 1/2021. Total civilian unemployment rate continues to decline to 6.3%. See BLS chart.

1/8/2021 - Current Employment Statistics uploaded through 12/2020. Total civilian unemployment rate stable at 6.7%. Leisure and Hospitality industries still down about -498,000 jobs. See BLS chart.

12/4/2020 - Current Employment Statistics uploaded through 11/2020. Total civilian unemployment rate continues to decline to 6.7%. See BLS chart.

11/6/2020 - Current Employment Statistics uploaded through 10/2020. Total civilian unemployment rate continues to decline to 6.9%. See BLS chart.

10/22/2020 - Added RIASEC Search to Browse tab, with limits for planned/preferred SVP range. Lists of occupations from Worker Trait Searching should now sort more reliably and quickly.

10/2/2020 - Current Employment Statistics uploaded through 9/2020. Total civilian unemployment rate continues to decline to 7.9%. See BLS chart.

9/4/2020 - Current Employment Statistics uploaded through 8/2020. Total civilian unemployment rate is now below that of December, 2011. See BLS chart.

8/31/2020 - An issue with login delays between 6:15 and 6:25 am Eastern Time has been resolved.

8/19/2020 - Updated Case Preparation Guide. Available to logged in web users under User Settings > Case Preparation Guide.

8/14/2020 - Updated scripts to improve appearance on smaller screens, such as tablets and phones (Android and iPad) + other fixes (including OASYSWeb Growth Filter).

8/7/2020 - Updated Current Employment Statistics in Industry Analyzer through July 2020. Employment numbers continue to improve in many NAICS industries. 

7/24/2020 - Updated County Business Patterns to 2018 data set. Updated all web products to produce more compact reports.

7/13/2020 - Both 2018 and 2019 Occupational Requirements Survey (ORS) Data is shown in Job Browser Pro Web and OASYS Web. ORS 2019 data is "preliminary" and covers 205 SOC Groups, but it includes Mental/Cognitive data elements. 2018 ORS data is considered "Final First Wave Data" collected over 3 years (2016-2018) and it covers 347 SOC Groups.

7/2/2020 - Updated Current Employment Statistics in Industry Analyzer through June 2020. The impact of improving employment now emerges in this new CES data for some 3-digit NAICS industries. NAICS 722 - Food Service shows nearly 3 million return to work.

6/26/2020 - Updated County Business Patterns to 2017 Data set.

6/5/2020 - Updated Current Employment Statistics in Industry Analyzer through May 2020. The impact of reduced employment due to COVID-19 now emerges in this new CES data for some 3-digit NAICS industries. It also shows the beginning bounce back up for some industries, too.

6/1/2020 - "Show Quick View" is a new button in Job Browser Pro Web and OASYS Web. At the bottom of the Description and Requirements tab for a selected occupation, this is a printable 1 page summary of coded occupational requirements, OES Group Employment, and the SkillTRAN DOT Estimate. Example for Cashier II (PDF)

5/7/2020 - Updated Current Employment Statistics in Industry Analyzer through April 2020. The impact of reduced employment due to COVID-19 now emerges in this new CES data for some 3-digit NAICS industries.

4/17/2020 - The latest OES data has 20 fewer OES codes. We have adjusted our systems late today to properly navigate this latest data wrinkle.

4/15/2020 - OES Data for May 2019 is now available in all web products. We have also added a Skills/Competencies tab in the Job Browser Pro Web and OASYS Web products.

3/17/2020 - We have doubled our server power and upgraded our services once again. In OASYSWeb and TSS, try our new filter by expected Job GROWTH!

3/13/2020 - Updated Current Employment Statistics in Industry Analyzer through February 2020 data

3/10/2020 - Updated Current Population Survey (CPS) to 2019 - Unpublished Table A-26 data

12/13/2019 - IMPROVEMENTS TO REPORTS and DOT ESTIMATE! Initial report preparation is now about 4X FASTER! PDF and DOCx is about 40% faster. The DOT Estimate feature in Job Browser Pro Web and OASYS now estimates much closer to the Job Browser Pro PC version 1.7, which will also have an update available by early next week.

11/14/2019 -OCCUPATIONAL REQUIREMENTS SURVEY (ORS) Data is now included in the Job Browser Pro Web and OASYSWeb products. Click the new "Show ORS Data" button on the Requirements tab of an Occupational Description or next to a SOC Code on the Codes tab when ORS Data is available. ORS data can also be shown (and printed) from the DOT Estimate screen when the "Show All DOTs in this SOC Group" button is clicked. ORS data is still being collected, but it is available for 347 detailed SOC Groups at this point. Full information about ORS is here: https://www.bls.gov/ors 

10/6/2019 - JOB BROWSER PRO WEB is now available. Sign up here or call 800-827-2182 to upgrade from OccuBrowse Web. Subscribers to OASYS WEB now also have access to the special DOT Estimate feature. Look in the Labor Market Information tab for the new "DOT Estimate" tab.

10/4/2019 - Updated Current Employment Statistics in Industry Analyzer through September 2019 data

8/2/2019 - Updated Current Employment Statistics in Industry Analyzer through June 2019 data

5/29/2019 - OASYSWeb and TSS now include ways to search for and display products in NAICS codes in the Industry Analyzer feature.

5/14/2019 - Multiple improvements in display and reporting of Work History, Labor Market Information, and Reports. Improved saving of customer-named report formats.

4/22/2019 - Updated Current Employment Statistics in Industry Analyzer to March 2019 data

4/2/2019 - Updated to May 2018 OES Data. There are now 69 fewer MSA / Balance of State (BOS) Areas.

4/1/2019 - Easy setup now for Internet Bill Payments. 

3/14/2019 - Services upgraded with a new database server. Fasten your seat belt!

2/20/2019 - Updated Current Population Survey (CPS) to 2018 - Unpublished Table A-26 data

2/10/2019 - Updated Current Employment Statistics in Industry Analyzer to January 2019 data

12/10/2018 - Updated Current Employment Statistics in Industry Analyzer to October 2018 data

11/29/2018 - Web-Based PREPOST - Available NOW! + OASYSWeb and TSS Enhancements!

11/7/2018 - Updated Schools information to published 2016 data

10/16/2018 - Updated Current Employment Statistics in Industry Analyzer to September 2018 data

9/7/2018 - NEW - Aggregated Search in TSS and OASYSWeb - Meets/Exceeds POMS DI 25015.017(I)

8/29/2018 - OASYS Web Available Now - Unlimited TSS Searches for one fixed annual price per user. Details!

8/7/2018 - Transferable Skills Service Launches!

Today, after 4 years of development, it is time to launch an entirely re-visioned solution. OccuBrowseWeb gets a face lift, too!
     Existing & New Customers:  Click here to signup. Be sure to watch the video tour when you first login!

8/3/2018 - Canadian Wage Data Added

7/30/2018 - SkillTRAN Comments re: Occupational Requirements Survey

5/28/2018 - Latest Current Employment Statistics (CES) as of April 2018

The latest CES Statistics have been added to the Industry Analyzer. CES Statistics show gross overall employment across all occupations in an industry sector over time, some industries going back as far as 1939! 

5/27/2018 - May 2017 OES Data + County Business Patterns for 2016

We are now using the latest OES data released March 30, 2018 for May 2017. This new data set begins to use some of the latest SOC 2017 coding, which collapses certain SOC 2010 occupations together. Details here:  https://www.bls.gov/oes/changes_2017.htm

This new web site will map to these changes by 6/1/2018. 

County Business Patterns were updated to reflect employment numbers by industry in the Industry Analyzer for 2016, the latest available data. There is a two year lag in reporting of this data by the Census Bureau. Details here:  Business Patterns for 2016 - County, National, State, MSA, Zip