| File name | Indicator |
|---|---|
| annual_wages_for_select_wage_groups.csv | Annual wages for select wage groups |
| black_white_wage_gap.csv | Black-white wage gap |
| ceo_pay_ratio.csv | CEO pay ratio |
| civilian_population.csv | Civilian population |
| college_wage_premium.csv | College wage premium |
| economically_insecure_population.csv | Economically insecure population |
| employment_by_demographics.csv | Employment by demographics |
| employment_by_industry_ces.csv | Employment by industry (CES) |
| gender_wage_gap.csv | Gender wage gap |
| hispanic_white_wage_gap.csv | Hispanic-white wage gap |
| historical_union_membership.csv | Historical union membership |
| hourly_earnings_by_industry.csv | Hourly earnings by industry |
| hourly_wage_average.csv | Hourly wage, average |
| hourly_wage_median.csv | Hourly wage, median |
| hourly_wage_percentile_ratios.csv | Hourly wage percentile ratios |
| hourly_wage_percentiles.csv | Hourly wage percentiles |
| inflation_rates.csv | Inflation rates |
| labor_force_participation.csv | Labor force participation |
| long_term_unemployment.csv | Long-term unemployment |
| minimum_wage.csv | Minimum wage |
| multiple_jobs.csv | Multiple jobs |
| official_poverty_acs.csv | Official poverty (ACS) |
| official_poverty_cps.csv | Official poverty (CPS) |
| part_time_employment.csv | Part-time employment |
| part_time_for_economic_reasons.csv | Part-time for economic reasons |
| price_indexes.csv | Price indexes |
| productivity_and_pay_indexes.csv | Productivity and pay indexes |
| productivity_and_pay_levels.csv | Productivity and pay levels |
| supplemental_poverty.csv | Supplemental poverty |
| teacher_pay_gap.csv | Teacher pay gap |
| time_at_work.csv | Time at work |
| underemployment.csv | Underemployment |
| unemployment.csv | Unemployment |
| union_membership.csv | Union membership |
| union_wage_premium.csv | Union wage premium |
| working_age_population.csv | Working age population |
Download all the data
This site provides all of the data underlying the EPI State of Working America Data Library. If you only need a small subset of data, it might be easiest to just use the EPI Data Library.
But if you want all of the data:
Downloads
Download .csv files of latest version of the data, Version 2025.11.13: epi_swa_data_library.zip
Archived versions of the data are here.
Citation
If you use the data, please cite it:
Source
Economic Policy Institute. 2025. State of Working America Data Library, Version 2025.11.13. https://data.epi.org.
Data file contents
epi_swa_data_library.zip is a zipped collection of .csv files, where each file is a particular “indicator” or outcome on the EPI State of Working America Data Library.
The current release of the data contains the following .csv files:
File contents
Each .csv file contains the following columns
| Column name | Column description |
|---|---|
| data_version | Version of the data |
| indicator | Indicator |
| measure | Outcome measure |
| date_interval | Time frequency of the data: ‘year’, ‘quarter’, or ‘month’ |
| year | Year |
| quarter | Quarter |
| month | Month |
| geo_type | Geography type: ‘national’, ‘state’, ‘division’, or ‘region’ |
| geo_name | Geography name |
| geo_code | Numeric geographic identifier |
| group | Group: e.g, ‘Gender’ or ‘Race/Ethnicity X Gender’ |
| group_value | Group value: e.g., ‘Female’ or ‘Hispanic X Female’ |
| value | Data value |
Each time series in the EPI Data Library is a unique combination of the columns indicator geo_name measure year month quarter group_value
Each row of the data represents a value from a given time series.