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
| Parameter | Data Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| bq_id | int | Unique ID assigned by BQ to the Organization. |
Table of Contents
Overview
Use Cases
Authentication
Historical Employment API