Intuit

Intuit Inc. (QuickBooks Payroll / Small Business Employment Index) — Employer-panel payroll microdata from the small-business end of the US economy, published as the monthly Small Business Employment Index - payroll-derived headcount, hours worked and compensation per employee for employers with fewer than 20 employees using Intuit Online Payroll (the launch-era panel was ~58,000 such employers), broken out by geography and industry, with the revisable vintage structure of an economic index (each month republished with revisions). Corporate scale dwarfs every other candidate here: ~19,000 emp…

Intuit offers (Alternative, Sentiment, Fundamental) — Extremely large at the micro layer: a payroll panel of even 100K-1M small employers each running semi-monthly or biweekly runs for sub-20 staff produces 10^7-10^8 pay records a year, each with hours, compensation and geography; the published index layer is tiny by comparison (a few hundred monthly series).

Small-business labor-demand nowcasting ahead of official BLS establishment data (the panel covers the hardest-to-survey segment of the economy), regional and industry hiring trackers, consumer-income and consumer-spending models, credit and receivables risk scoring for small-business lenders, and - from the revision history - calibration of forecast error for any payroll- or postings-derived employment series

The data is with 18 years of history.

Coverage spans US; Application Software, Financial Exchanges & Data; alternative, sentiment, fundamental; equities, fixed_income.