Open, audited, attributable
Grounded in the same data governments trust.
Most career and workforce tools run on proprietary black boxes. JobRoute does not. Every score and route we produce is built on a foundation of open, publicly available workforce data, enriched with our own AI layer. You can audit the inputs. You can trace the logic.
We combine six authoritative sources. Every score computes on the O*NET occupational spine of 1,016 occupations, mapped across roughly 80,000 skill descriptors drawn from O*NET, ESCO, and Lightcast, in 28 languages. Refresh cycles run from every two weeks to every two years depending on the source. Licenses are disclosed. Attributions sit in the footer. No vendor lock-in on the taxonomy underneath you.
O*NET 30.2 Database
U.S. Department of Labor · ETA
The U.S. gold-standard occupational dataset. Maps 1,016 occupations to ~20,000 specific tasks and 35,000+ skill descriptors. The taxonomy underneath most serious workforce research in the world, including Anthropic's Economic Index.
Used under
CC BY 4.0. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA.
ESCO v1.2.1
European Commission · DG EMPL
The European multilingual classification of skills, competences, qualifications and occupations. Covers 3,039 occupations and 13,939 skills across 28 languages. Free for commercial and non-commercial use, with official ISCO crosswalks for global normalization.
Accessed via ESCO API, licensed under
EUPL 1.2.
Lightcast Open Skills
Lightcast · Boston, MA
The most active free skills taxonomy in the market. 33,000+ skills in a 3-tier hierarchy, refreshed every two weeks from real job posting signals.
Lightcast Open Skills integration in progress. Commercial agreement submitted April 2026; live integration expected Q2 2026.
Anthropic Economic Index
Anthropic · Public research program
The first large-scale, real-world dataset of how AI is actually used across occupational tasks. Anonymized analysis of millions of Claude conversations mapped to the O*NET task taxonomy. Four reports released through March 2026, with open datasets for researchers.
Future of Jobs Report 2025
World Economic Forum
Biennial research covering over 800 companies and 14 million workers across 22 industries and 55 economies. Directional macro forcing function behind the JobRoute exposure model, and the most cited workforce transformation research globally.
BLS Occupational Data
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
The wage and employment backbone for the U.S. labor market. Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, Employment Projections, and Current Population Survey. U.S. federal works, public domain, free API. Where our wage ranges and employment base counts come from.