- Location
- Sacramento, California
- Workplace
- Remote
- Type
- Contract
- Source
- BetterTeam
Description
Estrada Consulting, Inc. (ECI) is seeking a Labor Market Economist for a graduate outcomes and labor market analytics engagement with a public higher education client. This is a remote, part-time contract role.
What you will do:
- Map academic programs to occupations using the CIP to SOC crosswalk, and review the mapping with faculty and program leaders.
- Analyze graduate earnings and employment outcomes from public sources such as Census Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO) and IPEDS.
- Work with BLS data (OEWS, QCEW, Employment Projections), state labor market information and O*NET to describe demand, wages, growth and skills for each program's occupations.
- Define regional views, including custom county groupings, and explain the limits of each data source (suppression, coverage, timing).
- Help program reviewers and new program proposals use the analysis, and write clear methodology notes for nontechnical readers.
- Review dashboards and data products built by the engineering team for accuracy and sound interpretation.
What you bring:
- A graduate degree in economics, labor economics, public policy or a related field.
- Five or more years working with BLS and state LMI data, including occupational projections and wage data.
- Hands-on experience with the CIP to SOC crosswalk and program to occupation analysis.
- Familiarity with PSEO, IPEDS, College Scorecard or state wage record matching.
- Comfort with SQL, Python or R for data preparation.
- Experience supporting higher education institutional research or workforce boards is a strong plus.
- Clear writing for academic and executive audiences.
- Remote, United States. Part-time contract, with hours that vary by project phase.
Skills
PythonSQLSOCBLS