US Wage Atlas: pay-band width and price-adjusted pay by occupation and metro area

Two derived datasets on US wages, built from federal sources and released under CC BY 4.0. Pay-band width (65,448 rows): the gap between the 25th and 75th percentile of pay inside a single occupation in a single metro area, expressed as a ratio, in dollars and as a share of the median, from the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey (May 2025). Price-adjusted pay (47,380 rows): the same wages divided by the BEA Regional Price Parity for that metro area, expressing pay in national-average dollars, with the housing parity kept as its own column rather than averaged into a single cost-of-living figure. Rows where adjacent published percentiles collapse onto the same value are flagged and excluded from analysis rather than silently dropped, as are "All Other" residual SOC buckets. Both source reference periods ship as columns because they differ: wages are May 2025, price parities are the 2024 vintage. The band measures wage dispersion. It is not a measure of negotiating room: a wide gap mixes employer effects, seniority, industry mix and worker characteristics, which an aggregate survey cannot separate. Dataset home, column reference and downloads: https://voicedapp.co/datasets