Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics

Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO) are experimental tabulations developed by researchers at the U.S. Census Bureau. PSEO data provide earnings and employment outcomes for college and university graduates by degree level, degree major, post-secondary institution, and state of institution. These statistics are generated by matching university transcript data with a national database of jobs, using state-of-the-art confidentiality protection mechanisms to protect the underlying data.

The PSEO are made possible through data sharing partnerships between universities, university systems, State Departments of Education, State Labor Market Information offices, and the U.S. Census Bureau. PSEO data are available for post-secondary institutions whose transcript data have been made available to the Census Bureau through a data-sharing agreement.

Download Public-Use Data

We release two classes of files for each of the tabulations, Graduate Earnings and Employment Flows:

• Comprehensive dataset, which includes all institutions and crossings
• State datasets, which include all institutions in a state and are a subset of the above release

Data files are provided in zipped CSV and XLS formats and can be downloaded below. The XLS files have variable labels attached, but do not include all the possible rows from Employment Flows, due to size constraints.