Skill Premium by Occupation API Guide

This allows you to prioritize high-value skills in training, align compensation strategies with market signals, and support meaningful career conversations.

It empowers learning, talent, and workforce strategy teams to link compensation and upskilling through data-backed decisions.

Who is this API for?

This API is designed for teams responsible for compensation planning, role design, or talent development. In particular:

• Learning Manager – identifying which skills lead to higher earning potential to inform upskilling priorities

• People Strategist – aligning critical skills with organizational pay strategy

• Workforce Planner – identifying high-premium skills to future-proof roles

• Talent Recruiter – refining job ads and sourcing strategies by focusing on market-valued skills

• People Analyst – supporting compensation analysis and business cases with concrete salary differentials

Goals this API helps you achieve

The Skill Premium by Occupation API directly supports:

• Analyze role-specific skills by understanding which ones drive compensation uplift

• Standardize roles and salaries using real-time, skill-level salary benchmarks

• Identify high-impact training targets by comparing salary gaps with and without the skill

• Support career progression conversations with evidence of value-added skills

What’s included in the API?

For any occupation, this API returns a list of skills that offer a measurable salary premium, along with supporting metadata:

This helps teams spot which skills materially impact pay — and where to focus learning or hiring.

Input and Output

Input required:

• An Occupation — selected by ontology code

• Optional: Country (default is US)

Output includes:

• A ranked list of skills associated with that occupation

• Median salary with and without each skill

• Salary gap in dollars

• Number of job ads with and without each skill

• Confidence level rating for each premium value

Real-world applications

Use cases include:

• Prioritize training programs for skills with the highest ROI in compensation

• Benchmark pay for internal roles against market expectations

• Design differentiated job descriptions based on premium-driving skills

• Build compensation equity by aligning pay with skill-based expectations

• Support mobility plans by highlighting which new skills can justify raises

API Bundle

This API is available in the following bundle:

Skill Analysis & Development - Ideal for teams focused on capability-building, role architecture, and compensation analytics