# Department of Labor

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/department-of-labor/  
**Website:** https://www.dol.gov  
**APIs profiled:** 5

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is the federal department that fosters, promotes, and develops the welfare of wage earners, job seekers, and retirees, improves working conditions, advances opportunities for profitable employment, and assures work-related benefits and rights. DOL exposes a portfolio of public APIs and data feeds including the modernized DOL APIv4 served from the DOL Open Data Portal, the Bureau of Labor Statistics Public Data API, the DOL Enforcement Data site, and Data.gov.

## Kin Score — 18.5 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 18.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 7.0 |
| Governance | 15.2 |
| Contract Governance | 15.2 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 26.3 |
| Access Clarity | 26.3 |

Regulatory layer — **Government & Public Sector**: 27.8 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (5)

- **DOL Open Data API V4** — The DOL Open Data API v4 is the Department of Labor's modernized REST API replacing the retired developer.dol.gov APIv1 and APIv2. It is served from the DOL Data Portal at datap...
- **BLS Public Data API V2** — The Bureau of Labor Statistics Public Data API v2 provides programmatic access to historical BLS time series data in JSON or Excel. Version 2 requires registration to obtain a r...
- **DOL Enforcement Data** — The DOL Enforcement Data site at data.dol.gov publishes the Department's enforcement records from agencies including the Wage and Hour Division, OSHA, MSHA, OFCCP, and the Emplo...
- **DOL API Sampler** — The DOL API Sampler is an interactive playground for exploring the DOL Open Data API v4 endpoints. It serves as a quick way to issue sample requests, browse parameters, and insp...
- **DOL Open Data Catalog** — The Department of Labor Open Data Catalog publishes datasets across labor statistics, enforcement, employment training, and worker protection programs. Datasets are surfaced on ...

## Security (1)

- **Department Of Labor Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Department Of Labor Plans Pricing**

## Tags

BLS, Employment, Enforcement, Federal-Government, Labor, Open Data, Statistics, Wages, Workforce

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/department-of-labor/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.