{
 "name": "TWF Southeast Workforce Dataset",
 "version": "2026.07",
 "released": "2026-07-27",
 "publisher": {
  "name": "The Wilkinson Firm, LLC",
  "url": "https://hr.thewilkinsonfirm.com",
  "telephone": "770-873-9004"
 },
 "description": "Employment counts and mean annual wages for eight health, human services and hospitality occupations across 24 Southeast metropolitan areas, joined to metro unemployment and the TWF Talent Tightness Index. Built from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics OES and LAUS releases.",
 "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
 "license_name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0",
 "citation": "The Wilkinson Firm, TWF Southeast Workforce Dataset, version 2026.07, 2026-07-27. https://hr.thewilkinsonfirm.com/data",
 "sources": {
  "employment_and_wages": "U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OES (May 2025)",
  "employment_retrieved": "2026-07-25",
  "unemployment": "BLS LAUS metro series LAUMT{fips}{area}00000003, la.data.60.Metro flat file (preliminary), retrieved 2026-07-26",
  "unemployment_period": "May 2026"
 },
 "talent_tightness_index": {
  "definition": "TWF Talent Tightness Index (0-100, higher = tighter for employers): 50% relative talent pool depth (inverted percentile of division-relevant occupation employment), 30% labor market slack (inverted percentile of metro unemployment rate, LAUS), 20% wage competition (percentile of division mean wage vs Southeast metros). Sources: BLS OES May 2025, BLS LAUS current month.",
  "bands": "70-100 Very tight; 55-69 Tight; 40-54 Competitive; 0-39 Deep pool",
  "computed": "2026-07-26",
  "scale": "0 to 100. Higher means harder to hire."
 },
 "coverage": {
  "metros": 24,
  "occupations": 8,
  "geography": "United States, Southeast plus Chicago"
 },
 "metro": "Winston-Salem, NC",
 "metro_slug": "winston-salem",
 "occupations": {
  "211018": {
   "name": "Behavioral health counselors",
   "division": "hr",
   "employment": 380,
   "mean_annual_wage": 55000
  },
  "211093": {
   "name": "Social/human service assistants",
   "division": "hr",
   "employment": 470,
   "mean_annual_wage": 49670
  },
  "211021": {
   "name": "Child/family social workers",
   "division": "hr",
   "employment": 630,
   "mean_annual_wage": 57410
  },
  "311120": {
   "name": "Home health/personal care aides (DSP proxy)",
   "division": "hr",
   "employment": 3480,
   "mean_annual_wage": 31980
  },
  "353031": {
   "name": "Waiters/waitresses",
   "division": "hosp",
   "employment": 3940,
   "mean_annual_wage": 34790
  },
  "353011": {
   "name": "Bartenders",
   "division": "hosp",
   "employment": 1020,
   "mean_annual_wage": 40710
  },
  "372012": {
   "name": "Housekeeping cleaners",
   "division": "hosp",
   "employment": 1720,
   "mean_annual_wage": 32750
  },
  "351012": {
   "name": "Food service supervisors (captain proxy)",
   "division": "hosp",
   "employment": 2360,
   "mean_annual_wage": 45230
  }
 },
 "labor_market": {
  "unemployment_rate": 3.6,
  "unemployment_period": "May 2026",
  "tightness_hr": 61,
  "tightness_hosp": 75
 },
 "canonical_page": "https://hr.thewilkinsonfirm.com/winston-salem"
}