BQ Historical Employment API

This API offers current and historic Employment data for approximately approximately 102M Organizations that do business in the US.

  • This API encompasses employment data, both recent and historic.
  • Historic data goes back up to the last 5 years on a monthly basis for employment.
  • Use the unique BQ ID to get the employment data. Obtain the response output in JSON format.
  • The data on company employment numbers is sourced from over 100,000 reliable government sources.

Major features include:

  • Employment and Payroll: Monthly employment numbers to track how a company's workforce has grown or declined over time with our Historical Employees endpoint.

Use cases:

  • Capital Market
  • Sales & Marketing
  • Compliance and KYB (Know Your Business) / KYC (Know Your Client)
  • Credit Risk: Insurance & Banking

Caching of API Data:

You must not pre-fetch, cache, or store the Historic Employment API content beyond 7 days, although the BQ_ID is exempt from caching restrictions.

Authentication Method

The API supports the following authentication method

  • API Key Authentication

Method: GET

API Key authentication

You can use the API Endpoint to manually supply your API Key provided by BQ

BQ Historical Employment API

API EndPoint

https://apigw.brightquery.com/extraction/api/historical-employment?bq_id=100003273517

Query Parameter

bq_id=100003273517

ParameterData TypeDescription
bq_idintUnique ID assigned by BQ to the Organization.

Table of Contents

Overview

Use Cases

Authentication

Historical Employment API