It produces estimates of occupational employment, employment, and occupational wages.
Occupational employment is defined as the number of employees in a given occupation.
The OES program produces estimates of occupational employment by industry, that is, the number of employees in a given occupation in a given industry. Occupational wages are the wages paid to employees in a given occupation. Establishments are asked to report how many workers they employ in a given occupation in each of several wage ranges. With this data, the OES program produces various estimates of wages by occupation. The survey does not cover the self-employed, owners and partners in unincorporated firms, household workers, or unpaid family workers.