One of the neat things to look at on the OES page is the location quotient. https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151254.htm https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes15

One of the neat things to look at on the OES page is the location quotient. https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151254.htm https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151254.htm This gives an indication of "compared to other jobs in that area, how many jobs are filled by people with this classification... compared to the national average of that ratio." You can then use that information, for a person looking for a job, to search those locations for jobs as it is more likely to find those jobs there. The "create customized tables" https://data.bls.gov/oes/#/home https://data.bls.gov/oes/#/home if you want a larger data set than the summary on the OES page. You could a "for web developers, all metro areas, give me the employment, median wage, and location quotient" and then get that as a csv file which could then be sliced and diced again. Remember that the wages are (1) based on a survey of 200,000 companies and (b) an estimate beyond that number. This is not self reported data. It is akin to how the CPI is calculated ( https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1015804773 https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1015804773 ).