Plug into BLS, O*NET, Census, NAICS — already AI-callable through the toolbox.

• quits rate by NAICS industry
• hires rate by NAICS industry
• job-openings rate by NAICS industry
• layoffs + discharges rate by NAICS industry
• total separations rate by industry × region

Access: BLS public API via src/lib/connectors/bls/ (PAT-46); helpers expose live national-total JOLTS rates + levels. anycomp.labor_metrics retains the cached SOC × MSA grid (PAT-18-FU-A).

Notes: PAT-46 lib connector at src/lib/connectors/bls/. MCP tools toolbox.bls.jolts.{quits-rate,hires-rate,openings}. Spoke promotion deferred to PAT-46-FU-A.

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS).

• total employment by NAICS industry
• average weekly hours by industry
• average hourly earnings by industry
• national + state-level employment trends

Access: BLS public API via src/lib/connectors/bls/ (PAT-46); helpers expose total payroll employment for an industry code. anycomp.labor_metrics retains cached industry-level employment for labor-rate denominators (PAT-18-FU-A).

Notes: PAT-46 lib connector at src/lib/connectors/bls/. MCP tool toolbox.bls.ces.employment. CES is the denominator companion to JOLTS rates.

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Employment Statistics (CES).

• wages + salaries index, all civilian workers
• total compensation index by occupation group
• total compensation index by industry group
• private vs public sector comp trends

Access: BLS public API via src/lib/connectors/bls/ (PAT-46); helper returns most-recent N quarters of the civilian wages-and-salaries series.

Notes: PAT-46 lib connector at src/lib/connectors/bls/. MCP tool toolbox.bls.eci.trend. ECI is the right inflation deflator for multi-year compensation analyses; CPI over-states comp-relevant inflation.

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Cost Index (ECI).

• CPI-U (all urban consumers)
• CPI-W (urban wage earners + clerical workers)
• core CPI (excluding food + energy)
• regional CPI (Northeast / Midwest / South / West)

Access: BLS public API via src/lib/connectors/bls/ (PAT-46); helper returns latest observation for any CPI series ID, defaulting to CPI-U All Items.

Notes: PAT-46 lib connector at src/lib/connectors/bls/. MCP tool toolbox.bls.cpi.lookup. Pair with ECI when reporting comp trends — CPI for cost-of-living context, ECI for comp-inflation context.

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index (CPI).

• mean wage by SOC × MSA
• median wage by SOC × MSA
• p10 / p25 / p75 / p90 wage by SOC × MSA
• employment count by SOC × MSA
• wage by SOC × industry (national)

Access: BLS public API via src/lib/connectors/bls/ (PAT-46); helpers expose median annual wage for (SOC × MSA) cells via buildOewsSeriesId.

Notes: PAT-46 lib connector at src/lib/connectors/bls/. MCP tool toolbox.bls.oews.lookup. Median only in v0; percentile bands (p25/p75/p90) deferred to PAT-46-FU-A.

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS).

• base salary by job × level × industry × geography
• total cash compensation by job × level × industry × geography
• long-term incentive prevalence + value by job × level
• geographic differentials + cost-of-labor indices
• industry × function comp comparison tables

Access: Mercer customer portal (subscription required). Toolbox does not own a license.

Notes: Customers bring their own Mercer license. Future connector pattern: anycomp ingests a customer-supplied Mercer extract into anycomp.comp_models band midpoints, keeping the licensed data inside the customer tenancy.

Mercer LLC, Total Remuneration Survey (annual).

• base salary by tech-job-family × level × geography
• total cash + equity by tech-job-family × level × geography
• new-hire equity grant ranges by job × level
• refresh equity grant ranges by job × level + performance tier
• tech-industry hiring + attrition pulse data

Access: Aon | Radford customer portal (subscription required). Toolbox does not own a license.

Notes: Same connector shape as Mercer: customers bring their own Radford license; anycomp ingests tenant-scoped extracts. The equity-grant surfaces are the most differentiated content — base salary overlaps materially with public-domain OEWS at the SOC level.

Aon | Radford, Global Technology Compensation + Equity Survey (annual).

• 1,016 SOC occupations with full content profiles
• skill ratings (importance + level) per occupation
• task statements per occupation
• knowledge + ability + work-context ratings
• occupation-to-occupation similarity / career-ladder data

Access: Bulk database downloads (O*NET Resource Center) + free-tier web services. Canonical toolbox home is meta-factory-prod's job-family-agent.

Notes: Canonical home is meta-factory-prod (separate repo). PAT-47 builds the toolbox-side job-family-agent connector that proxies meta-factory's O*NET-mapped taxonomy through MCP. The toolbox does not own the O*NET ingest pipeline.

U.S. Department of Labor, O*NET Database v28.3.

• universal job-family taxonomy
• function × level matrix with role specs
• O*NET SOC ↔ job-family crosswalk
• AI-authored role-spec drafting service
• corpus of normalized role descriptions

Access: meta-factory-prod HTTP + MCP gateway. Toolbox connector at src/spokes/job-family-agent/ is reserved namespace only today.

Notes: Canonical home is meta-factory-prod, not this toolbox. PAT-47 builds the toolbox-side connector that wraps meta-factory's HTTP/MCP contract. Performix and other consumers vendor meta-factory's contract directly; the toolbox is one of several proxies, not the canonical surface.

Mike West, meta-factory job-family-agent (internal, ~/Vibe Coding Projects/meta-factory-prod/).

• NAICS 2017 / 2022 hierarchy (all 5 levels)
• industry titles + descriptions
• NAICS ↔ ISIC crosswalk
• historical NAICS revision crosswalks (2002 / 2007 / 2012 / 2017 / 2022)

Access: Census Bureau publication (PDF + CSV). segmentation-studio's canonical-segments catalog (PAT-41) references NAICS sectors at the industry-segment level.

Notes: Revised every 5 years (2017 → 2022 → 2027). Most analytical work today is on the 2017 hierarchy with 2022 forward-mapping. Future connector work pairs NAICS with GICS for cross-mapping commercial benchmarks.

U.S. Census Bureau, North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Manual.

• GICS 4-level hierarchy
• sector + industry group + industry + sub-industry definitions
• GICS ↔ NAICS / ICB / Bloomberg-BICS crosswalks (vendor-specific)
• company-to-GICS classifications (via vendor data feeds)

Access: MSCI + S&P Global commercial license. Toolbox integration blocked on licensing.

Notes: Commonly requested for benchmarking commercial-equity-comp data (where comp surveys index by GICS). Blocked on licensing — Mike's path is to wait until either an open-data crosswalk exists or a customer brings their own GICS license.

MSCI and S&P Global, Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS).

• ZIP code → CBSA mapping
• ZIP code → MSA mapping
• CBSA → state crosswalk
• metro vs micro CBSA flagging

Access: Curated v0 snapshot bundled at src/lib/connectors/census/data/zcta-to-cbsa.json (PAT-48); covers 57 most-populated MSAs as ZIP ranges. Refresh path documented in census/README.md.

Notes: PAT-48 lib connector at src/lib/connectors/census/. MCP tools toolbox.census.{zip.lookup,cbsa.lookup}. Full ~33K ZCTA coverage deferred to PAT-48-FU-A; pairs with BLS OEWS to translate employee ZIPs to MSA-level wage benchmarks.

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, HUD-USPS ZIP Code Crosswalk Files (Census basis).

• demographic estimates by age + sex + race + ethnicity
• educational attainment by geography
• labor-force participation by geography
• household income distributions by geography
• industry + occupation distributions by geography

Access: Census Bureau Data API via src/lib/connectors/census/ (PAT-48); helper fetches ACS 5-year demographics for any CBSA (median income, population, age, labor-force participation, education).

Notes: PAT-48 lib connector at src/lib/connectors/census/. MCP tool toolbox.census.acs.demographics. ACS demographics are the right baseline for representation-ratio benchmarks; CENSUS_API_KEY recommended for production volume.

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS).

• birth-year range per generational cohort
• Pew Research methodology notes on cohort boundary choices
• comparative Strauss-Howe variant boundaries (annotated where they differ)
• Greatest / Silent / Boomer / Gen X / Millennial / Gen Z / Gen Alpha definitions

Access: Pew Research Center publications + reports (https://www.pewresearch.org/). Toolbox vendored the ranges into segmentation-studio's PAT-55 canonical-segments seed.

Notes: Strauss-Howe Generations Inc. publishes a slightly different boundary set (Boomers 1943-1960; Gen X 1961-1981; Millennials 1982-2004). The Pew ranges are authoritative in the canonical-segments catalog; Strauss-Howe variants are flagged as alternativeStrings on the matching Pew entry. Pew refreshes boundaries periodically (most recent material change was Gen Z 1997 lower bound in 2019). PAT-55 ships 7 canonical entries: Greatest / Silent / Boomer / Gen X / Millennial / Gen Z / Gen Alpha.

Pew Research Center, Generations and Age — Defining Generations: Where Millennials End and Generation Z Begins (2019, updated through 2024).

• ISEI score (16-90 scale) per ISCO-08 4-digit occupation code
• ISCO-08 to ISCO-88 crosswalk with score migration notes
• methodology paper + Stata / R reproduction code
• EGP (Erikson-Goldthorpe-Portocarero) class mapping as a companion categorical scale

Access: Ganzeboom's website (https://www.harryganzeboom.nl/isco08/) + Stata `iskoisei` package. Toolbox vendored 4 ISEI bands as canonical segments under PAT-56.

Notes: ISEI is the international research standard for SES — used in OECD, World Bank, ILO, and academic comparative-mobility studies. PAT-56 ships 4 ISEI bands (low 16-30, lower-mid 30-50, upper-mid 50-70, high 70-90). Computing an ISEI score from an HRIS requires an ISCO-08 occupation classification first; the upstream job-family-agent connector (PAT-47) is the long-term path to that crosswalk.

Ganzeboom, H. B. G., De Graaf, P. M. & Treiman, D. J. (1992). A standard international socio-economic index of occupational status. Social Science Research 21(1), 1-56. Updated for ISCO-08 by Ganzeboom (2010).

• NS-SEC 8-class analytical model (Classes 1-8)
• NS-SEC 5-class collapsed model for smaller samples
• NS-SEC ↔ SOC 2010 occupation-code crosswalk
• official user manual + rebasing methodology

Access: ONS website (https://www.ons.gov.uk/methodology/classificationsandstandards/otherclassifications/thenationalstatisticssocioeconomicclassificationnssecrebasedonthesoc2010). Toolbox vendored the 8 analytical classes as canonical segments under PAT-56.

Notes: NS-SEC is the official UK SES classification, used in the UK Census and in academic + policy research on inequality + mobility. PAT-56 ships all 8 analytical classes. Operationally, NS-SEC class derivation needs both SOC occupation + employment-relations data (employee vs employer, supervisory status) — the pure SOC-derived ''simplified'' NS-SEC is the practical fallback when employment-relations fields are absent.

UK Office for National Statistics. (2010). The National Statistics Socio-economic Classification (NS-SEC) — Rebased on the SOC 2010 — User Manual.

• Hauser-Warren SEI score (0-100 scale) per 1990 Census occupation code
• occupation-prestige sub-index alongside the SEI
• occupational-education + occupational-income component scores
• methodology paper with reproduction notes

Access: Sociological Methodology 27(1), 177-298 (1997). Toolbox vendored 4 SEI bands as canonical segments under PAT-56.

Notes: Hauser-Warren is the U.S.-specific update to the Duncan SEI tradition; it predates Nakao-Treas (1994) but uses 1990 Census occupation codes rather than the 1989 GSS prestige ratings Nakao-Treas relied on. The two are not interchangeable; researchers usually pick one and cite consistently. PAT-56 ships 4 bands (low 0-25, lower-mid 25-50, upper-mid 50-75, high 75-100).

Hauser, R. M. & Warren, J. R. (1997). Socioeconomic indexes for occupations: A review, update, and critique. Sociological Methodology 27(1), 177-298.

• Nakao-Treas SEI score (0-100 scale) per 1980 Census occupation code
• GSS-derived occupational prestige score per occupation
• occupational-education + occupational-income component scores
• methodology paper with reproduction notes

Access: Sociological Methodology 24, 1-72 (1994). NORC GSS prestige data (https://gss.norc.org/). Toolbox vendored 4 SEI bands as canonical segments under PAT-56.

Notes: Nakao-Treas updates the older Stevens-Featherman and Stevens-Cho SEI scales using 1989 GSS prestige ratings — the prestige series the NORC GSS has maintained since the 1960s. Most U.S. mobility research from the 1990s-2000s uses either Hauser-Warren or Nakao-Treas; researchers should pick one and cite consistently. PAT-56 ships 4 bands (low 0-25, lower-mid 25-50, upper-mid 50-75, high 75-100).

Nakao, K. & Treas, J. (1994). Updating occupational prestige and socioeconomic scores: How the new measures measure up. Sociological Methodology 24, 1-72.

• EEO-1 job-group taxonomy (10 categories)
• EEOC race/ethnicity category definitions
• EEOC sex category definitions
• EEO-1 filing data dictionary + technical spec

Access: EEOC published spec + filing portal. Not yet wired into a toolbox spoke.

Notes: Pairs with the Diversity Composition analyses (PAT-42) — the EEO-1 categories are the canonical reporting taxonomy for workforce-demographic dashboards. Future connector work covers filing-format generation, not analytical surfaces.

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, EEO-1 Component 1 Survey.

• directive text + transposition deadlines per member state
• reporting thresholds (employer size × pay-gap percentage)
• controlled-pay-gap methodology guidance
• remediation-trigger thresholds (5% unexplained gap)

Access: EUR-Lex (directive text) + per-member-state implementing legislation. Not yet wired into a toolbox spoke.

Notes: Member state transposition is in flight through June 2026. The 'pay-equity-controlled-comparison' analysis (PAT-42) already implements the directive's methodology shape; the data-source entry is for the regulatory frame itself.

European Parliament + Council, Directive (EU) 2023/970 (Pay Transparency Directive).

• federal minimum hourly wage
• federal overtime threshold + exempt-employee tests
• tipped-employee federal floor + tip-credit rules
• minor / student-worker federal wage rules
• industry-specific FLSA exemptions

Access: DOL Wage and Hour Division publications + statutory text (29 USC §§ 201-219). Toolbox PAT-85 (DOL FLSA connector) will codify automated refresh.

Notes: PAT-80 seeds the federal floor + overtime threshold into wage_compliance.rule_versions directly. PAT-85 wires automated state-labor-site scraping for state baselines. Citation chain lands in wage_compliance.source_citations.

U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division — Fair Labor Standards Act.

• state minimum hourly wage (general / tipped / minor / industry-specific)
• state effective dates + announced future increases
• state-mandated paid-leave + sick-leave wage rules
• state-mandated overtime thresholds (CA daily-OT, AK 8-hour-day, NV)
• state required-posting + notice rules

Access: Per-state public webpages (50 + DC). Toolbox PAT-85 (state-labor scraper) maintains the per-state roster + handles HTML/PDF variance via PAT-86 AI ordinance extractor fallback.

Notes: Aggregate entry because each state is a separate scraper target, but the catalog needs a single conceptual citation. The connector resolves per-state URLs from a configured roster maintained alongside PAT-85.

Individual state Departments of Labor (50 states + District of Columbia).

• city + county wage ordinances with effective dates
• tipped-worker tier-out provisions by jurisdiction
• small-employer vs large-employer thresholds
• scheduled future-effective increases (multi-year)
• historical wage-rule changes by jurisdiction

Access: Public webpage with downloadable PDF/Excel inventory. PAT-80 ingests the roster as the seed for ~150 local-ordinance jurisdictions; PAT-86 AI extractor parses individual ordinance PDFs where Berkeley's summary needs validation.

Notes: The single highest-leverage public source for comprehensive US local-ordinance coverage. Manual review of each entry before promoting from validation_status='pending' → 'validated' is the human-in-the-loop discipline.

UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education — Inventory of US City and County Minimum Wage Ordinances.

• state minimum wage by year (current + announced future)
• pending state minimum-wage legislation status
• ballot-initiative tracking by state
• indexation / inflation-tied state laws
• state preemption laws (state blocks local ordinances)

Access: Public webpages + downloadable tables. PAT-85 connector polls quarterly; PAT-87 temporal diff agent uses NCSL pending-legislation feed for 90/30/7-day alert windows.

Notes: NCSL's pending-legislation tracker is what makes wage-compliance.alerts upcoming-increase alerts non-aspirational — there is a public, regularly-updated source of truth for what's coming, not just what's in effect.

National Conference of State Legislatures — State Minimum Wages.

• federal + state + local minimum-wage data
• payroll-tax rates by jurisdiction × employee type
• Pennsylvania local-services-tax districts
• Ohio RITA + CCA tax districts
• garnishment + wage-attachment rules

Access: Symmetry API (customer subscription required). Toolbox provider-abstraction layer lets customers connect their license without coupling to a single vendor.

Notes: Optional vendor — customers bring their own license. The provider-abstraction layer ensures wage-compliance never depends on a single commercial source; Symmetry blends with DOL + state-labor + Berkeley + NCSL via PAT-104 conflict-detection agent when sources disagree.

Symmetry Software, Symmetry Tax Engine + Minimum Wage Compliance.

• structured rule_version payload from ordinance PDF
• source citation with page/paragraph references
• multi-factor confidence score per extraction
• diff detection across versions of the same ordinance
• language-agnostic extraction (Claude handles foreign-language ordinances)

Access: MCP tool `wage-compliance.ai-extract.ordinance` (admin-scope only). Served via Vercel AI Gateway (`AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY`; ANTHROPIC_API_KEY fallback) through the shared `src/lib/ai/` module (PAT-86-FU-A). Output lands in wage_compliance.rule_versions with validation_status='pending' awaiting human review.

Notes: Case study #1 for the toolbox's AI-in-HR posture (see /ai-in-hr). AI runs on EXTERNAL data only — public ordinances. Tenant rosters / compensation / evaluation results never enter a prompt. Compliance evaluation itself is deterministic Postgres lookup against canonical structures the AI helped build.

People Analytics Toolbox — AI Ordinance Extractor (PAT-86).