Case Study
Job Market Pulse
The labor market, visualized
A real-time dashboard that combines data from the Federal Reserve, Department of Labor, and USCIS into one clean view. Labor market trends from 2021 to present, H-1B sponsor rankings, PM role salary ranges, and approval rates. Data refreshes every 24 hours.
4 Data Sources
FRED, DOL, USCIS, BLS
Live Data
Refreshes daily
H-1B Tracker
Company lookup
Shipped
pulse.harshit.ai
At a Glance
Data Dashboard
Type
Analytics
Domain
Live
Status
Next.js + FRED API
Stack
Sections
Motivation
Government Data Shouldn't Be This Hard to Read
The US labor market generates incredibly rich data every month. JOLTS tracks job openings, hires, quits, and layoffs. USCIS publishes H-1B approval rates by employer. The Department of Labor discloses every LCA filing with job titles and salaries. All of it is public. None of it is easy to use.
I built Job Market Pulse because I was tired of navigating government PDFs, ad-heavy aggregator sites, and fragmented H-1B portals just to answer simple questions. How many jobs are open right now? Which companies sponsor H-1B for PM roles? What are they paying? Four data sources, one dashboard, refreshed daily.
Preview
Job Openings vs Unemployment Rate
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Static snapshot from FRED API. For live data and more charts, explore the full dashboard.
Explore the full dashboardData Pipeline
Four Sources, One Dashboard
FRED API
Federal Reserve Economic Data
Job openings, unemployment rate, hires, quits, layoffs, and total separations. Monthly, seasonally adjusted.
DOL OFLC
Department of Labor
Labor Condition Application disclosure data. Every H-1B filing with job title, salary, employer, and work location. FY2022 through FY2025.
USCIS
H-1B Employer Data Hub
Approval and denial counts by employer, by fiscal year. FY2020 through FY2026 Q1.
BLS JOLTS
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Monthly surveys of 21,000 establishments tracking job openings, hires, and separations across all nonfarm industries.
Design Decisions
Why It Works This Way
One chart, one story
Every chart answers exactly one question. Job openings vs unemployment tells the macro story. No multi-purpose charts that require a legend to decode.
Annotations over legends
Key moments are labeled directly on the charts: COVID lockdowns, Great Resignation peak, tech layoff wave. The reader should not need to cross-reference a legend.
Static preview, live dashboard
The case study page embeds a static snapshot for interactive preview. The full dashboard fetches live data every 24 hours. Two layers: preview for context, dashboard for depth.
H-1B as a first-class tab
For international students and workers, H-1B sponsorship data is the most relevant labor market data. It deserves its own tab with company lookup, salary ranges, and approval trends.
The Dashboard