Changelog

A dated, honest record of data refreshes, corrections, and feature changes on PlainEmployers. See our methodology for the full pipeline and our corrections process for how we handle reported errors. To report a figure, use the data corrections form.

  1. Feature

    Named the contact page title with the PlainEmployers brand, dated the contact stamp to this edit, and pointed data-correction reports at this changelog. Removed a second homepage publisher card that duplicated the Organization JSON-LD already emitted by the trust footer (this commit).

  2. Feature

    Metro pages now name same-state (or nationwide) labor-presence peers instead of repeating a shared synthesis/takeaways band (commit 30b53e1).

  3. Feature

    Employer profiles gained nationwide H-1B-volume and OSHA DART peer lattices so similar sponsors are not only in-industry (commit c0eb8ea).

  4. Feature

    Homepage hero text stays in the main column, and employer/rankings related lists became presence-aware Read-with drills (commit 833c995). Detail pages mark derived corpus-placement sentences (commit 8e48e6c).

  5. Feature

    Letter browse page-1 and the research hub carry Dataset+CSV download markup pointing at /data/employers.csv (commit 58c7476).

  6. Feature

    Accountability pages (privacy, terms, contact, disclaimer, editorial policy, author) carry Dataset+DataDownload for the employer roster CSV (commit ede9423).

  7. Feature

    Shipped /data: open H-1B∪WARN employer roster as CSV and JSON (CC BY 4.0), with Dataset JSON-LD, CiteThis, and a revenue-readiness note (not activated). Links from footer, methodology, sitemap-pages, and llms.txt.

  8. Feature

    Shipped /changes: FY2024 to FY2025 H-1B filing volume movers (comparable-set employers), with CSV download, Atom feed, and per-employer ChangeBand when a floor-qualifying delta exists (portal commits 7b881e1, dfe1fb9).

  9. Feature

    Shipped /statistics: national H-1B, OSHA, and WARN aggregates with Key Findings, Dataset JSON-LD, CiteThis, and AnswerCapsule for citation (portal commits 1a17eb2, 61473fd).

  10. Correction

    Folded case-variant metro slugs into a single canonical metro per city/state (title-case normalize before slugify). Former -N collision URLs now 301 to the canonical page; New York, NY is one profile with the merged employer total rather than split pages (ETL stage metros v1; portal metro_aliases map).

  11. Data refresh

    Re-ran wage and data outlier guards on the live corpus and restamped etl_version / last_upgrade so pages reflect cleaned DOL LCA rows rather than parse-error extremes (_metadata stage:fix-data-outliers).

  12. Correction

    OSHA safety grades now name the 2-digit NAICS hours-weighted DART basis on the profile instead of implying an employer-only industry peer set (portal commit c1282f7).

This changelog lists only changes we can corroborate against commit history and database metadata. It does not yet cover every historical change; entries begin from when this public record was introduced.

Download the H-1B and WARN employer roster cited on this page: employers.csv (CC BY 4.0).