Office of Management and Budget Clearance

O*NET Data Collection

The O*NET Data Collection program is currently in progress. As part of the effort to maintain the ongoing collection to keep the data up to date, the Department of Labor is seeking extension of its current clearance from the Office of Management and Budget. A Federal Register Notice external site, published on January 17, 2024, announced the impending 30-day comment period. The OMB will consider all written comments that agency receives on or before February 16, 2024.

Download: 2024 OMB Clearance Package

The 2024 OMB package is provided below. All materials are provided in PDF format.

OMB Clearance Package:
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Previous OMB Clearance Packages

The materials submitted to OMB in 2002, 2005, 2008, 2012, 2015, 2018, and 2021 can be found in our Reports and Documents section.

Data Publication Schedule

The O*NET 28.2 database represents the most recent update resulting from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approved data collection program. This database release includes an update of 90 occupations from job incumbent and occupational expert sources. The schedule below provides both past and targeted publication dates, along with the numbers of occupations scheduled for update during each release period.

853 occupations have been updated by job incumbents and occupational experts to date. You can view the full list of updated occupations online. 754 of these occupations have more than one update. You can view the list of occupations with more than one update as well. With the release of the O*NET 29.0 database in August 2024, 881 occupations will have been updated and 771 will have more than one update.

Lists of occupations are provided below. These lists were developed based on when the occupations were updated and published.

Target DateDatabase VersionOccupations Updated 1
April 20035.054
July 20046.0126
December 20047.0100
June 20058.0100
December 20059.0100
June 200610.0100
December 200611.0101
June 200712.0100
June 200813.0108 2
June 200914.0117
June 201015.0120
July 201116.0107
July 201217.0108
July 201318.0105
July 201419.0126
August 201520.0102
August 201621.0116
August 201722.0100
August 201823.0100
August 201924.0100
August 202025.0100
August 202126.0100 3
August 202227.080
August 202328.090
 Total updates to date2,460
August 202429.0101 4

1 The number of occupations refers to those updated by the job incumbent and occupational expert sources. Additional occupations may have subsets of their data updated by alternative sources (e.g., analyst ratings, transactional data) at different dates than those listed above.

2 Legislators (11-1031.00) and Mathematical Technicians (15-2091.00) were not updated by job incumbent or occupational expert sources.

3 Legislators (11-1031.00) will not be populated by job incumbent or occupational expert sources. Transportation Security Screeners (33-9093.00), Motion Picture Projectionists (39-3021.00), Paperhangers (47-2142.00), and Explosive Workers, Ordinance Handling Experts, and Blasters (47-5032.00) will not be updated by job incumbent or occupational expert sources.

4 21 occupations will have only Abilities and Skills data updated.

Occupational Code Assignment

On September 7, 2022, OMB approved external site a three-year extension of the Occupational Code Assignment (OCA) process. In 2022, the Department of Labor sought OMB approval for this extension. A Federal Register Notice external site, published on April 6, 2022, announced the availability to the public of the "Information Collection Request" (ICR). A second Federal Register Notice external site, published on July 14, 2022, announced the submission for OMB review.

Information Collection Request:
OCA Form: