Editorial

Editorial standards and data provenance

MetroWages is maintained as a data product, not a publication. There is no bylined commentary on individual pages, because the pages do not contain any original claims — they contain figures from one government survey.

Who is responsible

The site is built and maintained by the MetroWages data team. Every indexable page is generated from a single reproducible pipeline; there is no editorial step where a person rewrites a number or adds an opinion. That is deliberate: the failure mode for a site like this is a human introducing an error between the source table and the page.

Because we do not publish original analysis or advice, we do not present named authors with biographical credentials. Inventing those would imply expertise the site does not exercise. What we can verify is the pipeline, and that is documented in full on the methodology page.

How accuracy is enforced

1. Single source. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2024. No secondary datasets are merged in.
2. No interpolation. Suppressed estimates stay suppressed. We do not fill a gap to complete a page.
3. Reproducible build. The pipeline takes the raw published workbook as input. Running it again on the same file produces byte-identical pages.
4. Derived values are labelled. Where a figure is calculated rather than published — the hourly column on ranking tables, the employment-weighted US benchmark — the page says so.
5. Margins are shown. Every page carries the relative standard error or a plain-language confidence note, so a wide estimate cannot masquerade as a precise one.

Corrections policy

If a figure on this site disagrees with the published OEWS table for 2024, the table is right. Report the page URL and the value, and the fix is applied to the pipeline rather than hand-patched onto the page — which means it propagates to every affected page at once.

Independence