Incenti Insights
Workforce intelligence for economic development and site selection.
Understand labor availability, labor cost, hiring and turnover, and the talent pipeline behind any U.S. market, and compare one labor market with another on a common basis.
Questions This Page Answers
The workforce questions behind every project.
Is there enough workforce in this market?
See labor force size, participation, employment, and unemployment for the geography a project cares about.
What does labor cost?
Compare median wages, average weekly wages, and monthly earnings across markets on a common basis.
What do hiring and turnover look like?
Job openings and turnover show whether a market is hiring, churning, or holding steady.
Is the workforce growing?
Employment projections and labor force trends show where a market is headed, not just where it is.
Where do workers live and work?
Commute patterns and job concentrations show the labor draw behind a market, where supported.
What does the future talent pipeline look like?
Colleges and universities, degrees awarded, graduate outcomes, and educational attainment map the pipeline behind the headcount.
What's Covered
The whole labor story, from headcount to pipeline.
Labor Force & Participation
Labor force size and participation for the markets you compare.
Employment & Unemployment
Employment and unemployment measures across the geographic levels available from each source, including city data where published.
Wages & Earnings
Median wages, average weekly wages, and monthly earnings for cost comparison.
Openings, Hiring & Turnover
Job openings and turnover that show how a market actually hires.
Commuting & Labor Draw
Commute times and job concentrations, where supported.
Employment Projections
Projected employment growth and annual openings for planning ahead.
Higher Education & Degrees
Colleges and universities, degrees awarded, and university research activity.
Outcomes & Attainment
Graduate earnings, educational attainment, and high school graduation rates.
Compare Labor Markets
Put two labor markets next to each other and let the numbers argue.
Compare availability, cost, dynamics, and pipeline across the markets you compete with. Percentile rankings place each measure against the national field, and every value traces to its source.
- Labor market comparison side by side
- Wage and earnings comparison on a common basis
- Pipeline measures beside today's headcount
- Report and export what you compare
Ask Insights
“How do wages and labor availability compare across these markets?”
Ask workforce questions in plain English and see the sources behind the answer.
Workforce numbers you can defend in the room. Sourced numbers, not guesswork.
How Teams Use It
The labor answer, before the labor question stalls the deal.
Economic Development Organizations
Answer the workforce section of every RFI with current numbers, and show prospects the pipeline behind your market, not just the snapshot.
- Answer RFI workforce sections with sourced values
- Show the talent pipeline behind your market
- Benchmark labor conditions against competitors
Site Selectors & Corporate Location Teams
Screen markets on labor availability and cost before making calls, and compare finalists on the labor measures a project lives or dies on.
- Screen markets on availability and cost
- Compare finalists on hiring and turnover
- Weigh the pipeline for long term projects
Workforce FAQs
What workforce measures does Insights cover?
Can I compare labor cost between markets?
Does Insights show where a market's workforce is heading?
What geographic levels does workforce data cover?
Where does the workforce data come from?
See the labor market behind your next project.
Take a live walkthrough using the markets you actually compete for talent with.