BLS OEWS

Pulls real market wage data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics API. Gives you seven tools to query hourly and annual wages across roughly 830 occupations and 530+ metro areas, useful when you're building independent government cost estimates or checking whether proposed labor rates align with regional market data. Part of a larger federal contracting toolkit but works standalone. Requires a free BLS API key you can grab from data.bls.gov. Built and hardened by a contracting officer who needed deterministic wage lookups without writing API code in prompts every time.