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900+ occupations with skills, wages, and career transition paths — structured, scored, and ready for your product. No CSVs, no ETL, no guessing.

skills.wageapi.com

GET /v1/occupations/15-1252

{
  "data": {
    "soc_code": "15-1252",
    "title": "Software Developers",
    "job_zone": 4,
    "bright_outlook": true,
    "skills": [
      { "name": "Computers and Electronics", "importance": 0.94 },
      { "name": "Programming", "importance": 0.91 }
    ],
    "wages": { "median": 132270, "pct10": 74600 },
    "projection": { "change_pct": 17.2, "outlook": "bright" }
  }
}

Occupation Intelligence

Every US occupation, fully profiled

Search 900+ O*NET occupations with fuzzy matching. Each profile includes scored skills, task descriptions, BLS wages by metro area, and 10-year employment projections. One endpoint, complete picture.

Career Transitions

Skill-based career path analysis

Find realistic career moves ranked by skill overlap. See shared skills, gap skills, similarity scores, and expected wage changes. Power "what's my next move?" features without building the math yourself.

Skills Taxonomy

The complete O*NET skills graph

Browse and search every skill, knowledge area, and ability in the US labor market taxonomy. For any skill, see which occupations need it most. For any job, see exactly what it requires — with importance and level scores.

OCCUPATION EXPLORER

Skills breakdown with importance and proficiency levels

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SKILLS TAXONOMY

Browse knowledge, skills, and abilities from the O*NET database

CAREER TRANSITIONS

Discover similar occupations and plan career moves

COMPARE OCCUPATIONS

Side-by-side skill and wage comparison

Software Developers

Registered Nurses

Data Scientists

Skill Comparison

Critical Thinking

0.81

0.84

0.88

Programming

0.88

0.12

0.72

Mathematics

0.72

0.45

0.85

Complex Problem Solving

0.78

0.62

0.82

Systems Analysis

0.75

0.38

0.68

Active Learning

0.69

0.75

Wage Comparison

Software Developers

$79,160$102,670$132,270$168,200$198,580

Registered Nurses

$63,720$72,910$86,070$101,510$132,680

Data Scientists

$61,400$82,500$108,020$141,340$195,500

Summary

Occupation	Median Wage	Job Zone	Employment	Growth %
Software Developers	$132,270	4	1,795,300	+25.0%
Registered Nurses	$86,070	3	3,175,390	+6.0%
Data Scientists	$108,020	5	192,070	+36.0%

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Employment Outlook

Top growing and declining occupations from BLS 10-year projections

Fastest Growing

1Wind Turbine Service Technicians+44.3%

2Nurse Practitioners+40.2%

3Data Scientists+35.8%

4Information Security Analysts+31.5%

5Statisticians+30.6%

6Physician Assistants+27.6%

7Software Developers+24.8%

8Web Developers+23.3%

Most Annual Openings

1Home Health and Personal Care Aides

684.6k

2Fast Food and Counter Workers

577.9k

3Stockers and Order Fillers

457.3k

4Laborers and Material Movers

435.8k

5General and Operations Managers

291.8k

6Registered Nurses

193.1k

7Software Developers

136.3k

8Market Research Analysts

94.6k

SIMPLE REST API

11 endpoints covering occupations, skills, career paths, and wages

Occupations

Skills

Career

curl -s "https://skills.wageapi.com/api/v1/occupations/search?q=software%20engineer&page_size=20" \
  -H "X-API-Key: sk_demo_key"

Response Body200 OK

{
  "data": {
    "items": [
      {
        "soc_code": "15-1252",
        "title": "Software Developers",
        "job_zone": 4,
        "bright_outlook": true,
        "green_occupation": false
      },
      {
        "soc_code": "17-2112",
        "title": "Industrial Engineers",
        "job_zone": 4,
        "bright_outlook": true,
        "green_occupation": false
      }
    ],
    "total": 3,
    "page": 1,
    "page_size": 20,
    "pages": 1
  },
  "metadata": {
    "sources": [
      {
        "name": "O*NET OnLine",
        "url": "https://www.onetonline.org/"
      }
    ],
    "request_id": "aca86a51-213a-4f0e-8151-bb2081ec3404",
    "rate_limit": null
  }
}

Connect to AI Agents

All 11 endpoints available as MCP tools. Query skills and occupations from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client.

Native MCP Server

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) lets AI assistants query occupation and skill data directly.

Ask your AI agent: “What skills does a data scientist need?” — get structured, source-attributed answers with importance scores.

No prompt engineering required. The API's agent-first descriptions guide LLM tool discovery automatically.

All 11 endpoints as MCP tools
Streamable HTTP transport
Full schema descriptions for LLM discovery
Source attribution in every response

Claude Desktop / Cursor config

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "skillsapi": {
      "url": "https://skills.wageapi.com/api/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "X-API-Key": "sk_your_key_here"
      }
    }
  }
}

What are the top skills for a Data Scientist and how does the career outlook look?

Based on O*NET data, the top skills for Data Scientists (15-2051) are:

1. Mathematics (0.85) 2. Programming (0.72) 3. Critical Thinking (0.84)

Employment outlook: Bright — 35.8% projected growth with 21,900 annual openings.

Sources: O*NET OnLine, BLS Projections

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Data Sources

O*NETRelease 29.1 (2025)Annual

BLS SOCMay 2024Annual

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