# Department of Labor

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/dol/  
**Website:** https://www.dol.gov/  
**APIs profiled:** 8

The U.S. Department of Labor provides REST APIs exposing over 200 datasets covering employment statistics, H-1B and foreign labor visa data, OSHA inspections and enforcement, wage and hour violations, job openings, union reports, workforce development data, mine safety, and Bureau of Labor Statistics economic indicators including CPI, CES, OES, and CPS. APIs are free to use with registration via the Open Data Portal.

## Kin Score — 21.5 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 21.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 15.5 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 21.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 9.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Government & Public Sector**: 20.4 (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

Free — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (8)

- **DOL Employment Statistics API** — Access to Current Employment Statistics (CES), Current Population Survey (CPS), Occupational Employment Statistics Survey (OES), Quarterly Census Employment and Wage (CEW), and ...
- **DOL OSHA Enforcement API** — Access OSHA inspection and enforcement data including inspection details, violations, citations, penalties, and accident injury reports. Covers all OSHA compliance actions with ...
- **DOL Wage and Hour Compliance API** — Access Wage and Hour Division (WHD) compliance action data covering all concluded compliance actions since FY 2005, including back wages, violations, and employer information. A...
- **DOL H-1B Foreign Labor Certification API** — Access Labor Condition Application (LCA) data collected by the Employment and Training Administration's Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) covering H-1B, H-1B1, E-3, H...
- **DOL Mine Safety and Health API** — Access Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) data including mine-by-mine information, accidents and injuries, inspections, violations, assessments, employment and product...
- **DOL Public Workforce System API** — Access Public Workforce System data including Initial Unemployment Insurance (UI) Claims, Workforce Investment Act data, job openings, and workforce development program informat...
- **DOL Veterans Employment API** — Access VETS-4212 and VETS-100 datasets containing veteran employment data reported by federal contractors and subcontractors, including hiring benchmarks and veteran representat...
- **DOL Sweat and Toil API** — Access the International Labor Affairs Bureau (ILAB) Sweat and Toil data covering child labor and forced labor worldwide, including goods produced with child or forced labor by ...

## Security (1)

- **Dol Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Dol Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Government, Employment, Labor, Workforce, OSHA, Safety, Wages, H-1B, Statistics, Open Data

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