Office Blues — Misery Data

· License: CC BY 4.0

Open data on the cost of work. Two datasets, both derived from public sources, maintained by Office Blues — a media-and-tools project for the unhappily employed.

Free to use under CC BY 4.0. Quote a figure, build on it, cite us.

Datasets

data/occupation_wages.csv — U.S. occupation annual wages (n = 823)

Annual wage percentiles (25th, median, 75th, 90th) for 823 detailed U.S. occupations.

field	meaning
soc	Standard Occupational Classification (SOC 2018) code
title	Occupation title
p25_usd / median_usd / p75_usd / p90_usd	Annual wage percentiles, USD
source_url	The Office Blues page for this occupation

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 release. Wages are national.

data/city_burnout_index.csv — City burnout index (n = 50)

A composite "burnout" score (0–100, higher = worse) for the 50 largest U.S. metro areas, ranked worst-first.

field	meaning
cbsa_code	Census CBSA code
city / state	Metro area / state
population	Metro population
burnout_score	Composite score, 0–100
rank / of_cities	Rank (1 = worst) of 50
source_url	The Office Blues page for this metro

Methodology: the burnout score is a composite of public metro-level indicators; the full method is documented at officeblues.net/methodology. Treat it as an editorial index (v1), not an official statistic.

Files

• data/*.csv and data/*.json — the same data in both formats.
• datapackage.json — a Frictionless Data descriptor (schemas + licensing).

Cite this dataset

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20534485 — the concept DOI, always resolving to the latest version (archived on Zenodo).

Office Blues, "Misery Data" (occupation wages + city burnout index),
officeblues.net (2026). CC BY 4.0. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20534485

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Maintained by Office Blues — https://officeblues.net. Methodology and the underlying tools (e.g. the Meeting Tax Calculator) live there. Aggregates only; no personal or per-visitor data is included.