- Type
- not stated
- Format
- Tabular — API endpoints, bulk 'data shares' (research/AI-model delivery extracts), interactive analyst dashboards, and an open published skills taxonomy; delivery into Tableau, Power BI, Workday and internal BI/ERP systems.
- Volume
- 18 billion labour-market data points; 3 billion+ historical job postings and career profiles; ZIP-level estimate grids for the full United States plus national/subnational coverage in 30+ countries (165+ countries of posting coverage).
- Users
- ~10,000+ licensed organisational seats (bounded from the stated install base of 200+ HR-tech OEM embedders, 110+ EdTech and 100+ provider partners, plus enterprise, government and university customers such as Amazon, Cisco, Toyota, Deloitte, Salesforce, P&G and UNESCO).
- History
- 25 years
- Update frequency
- not stated
- Growth
- Active and consolidating — March 2026 press release expanding the posting archive past 3 billion, an AWS Marketplace seller launch for Europe, continuing institutional partnerships in 2026, and bolt-on acquisitions of Skill Collective and Stratigens alongside OEM deals with Carahsoft, Guild, Orgvue and DCI.
- Launched
- Data lineage back to ~2000 (Emsi founding stated on the partnerships leader's profile); the Lightcast brand launched 2022 from the Emsi Burning Glass merger of Emsi (2000s) and Burning Glass Technologies (founded ~1999).
- Delivery
- not stated
- Entity mapping
- not stated
- Sample
- not stated
- Point-in-time
- not stated
- Licence
- not stated