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Compensation benchmarking data · Named, not ranked

BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics

–Too few to rank
4/14Models named it
3First choices
0Warnings
November 2026 Edition · all company sizes counted.
Ranked inCompensation benchmarking data #14 mid-market
What AI models recommend

Named, too few times to rank.

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics has 2.

Why models recommend it

“start with the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS)—it's free”GPT-6 Luna · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“free government data, though less tailored to specific companies or compensation packages”Perplexity Sonar · Budget-constrained question · alternative

What gives them pause

No model argued against it.

Also on the shortlist

The products named in the same answers as BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, over the 4 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.

A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.

How this is measured

Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.

Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.

Read the method →

Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages the answers that named BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics came back with. A fact about retrieval, not a cause of the answer.

Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 3 of the 4 answers that named BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

salary.com2
aon.com1
bls.gov1
brightmine.com1
comprehensive.io1
g2.com1
gane.ai/indexpublisher (Gane)1
hrpaypick.com1
payscale.com1
peoplemanagingpeople.com1

No domain is on file for BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, so its own site is not marked. One was to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

By model

How each model answered on BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionWarningLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar01001
Grok 4.2000000
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500000
GPT-6 Luna10001
Muse Glimmer 30B00000