# BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 2 judge labels across 1 category by 2 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/bls-occupational-employment-and-wage-statistics

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Compensation benchmarking data](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/rewards/compensation-benchmarking-data/index.md) | 2% | 14 | 0% | 2 |

## What the models said for it

- "start with the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS)—it's free" (GPT-6 Luna, Compensation benchmarkin)
- "free government data, though less tailored to specific companies or compensation packages" (Perplexity Sonar, Compensation benchmarkin)

## By model

| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, from 3 of the 4 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- salary.com: 2
- aon.com: 1
- bls.gov: 1
- brightmine.com: 1
- comprehensive.io: 1
- g2.com: 1
- gane.ai/index: 1
- hrpaypick.com: 1
- payscale.com: 1
- peoplemanagingpeople.com: 1

### Pages cited

- https://aon.com/en/capabilities/human-capital-analytics/radford-mclagan-compensation-database/compensation-data-for-private-companies: 1
- https://bls.gov/oes/earnings.htm: 1
- https://brightmine.com/us/resources/total-rewards/benchmarking/how-to-choose-the-best-salary-benchmarking-tool: 1
- https://comprehensive.io/content/best-compensation-benchmarking-data-sources: 1
- https://g2.com/categories/salary-benchmarking: 1
- https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/rewards/compensation-benchmarking-data/smb: 1
- https://hrpaypick.com/salary-benchmarking-small-business: 1
- https://payscale.com/products/pricing: 1

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/hr.