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Name: Who Earns What dataset (US and Japan pay by occupation)
Creator: Who Earns What
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Yearly pay for 830 US occupations (OEWS May 2025) and 144 Japanese occupations (Basic Survey on Wage Structure 2025), with distributions and breakdowns, as JSON.

index.json — occupation master (974 US and Japanese occupations with headline pay and employment)
/data/us/<SOC>.json — one US occupation: distribution, states, related occupations
/data/jp/jp-NNN.json — one Japanese occupation: by company size, sex and age
persons.json — famous people's pay and assets with sources
longtail.json — published figures for jobs outside official statistics

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