Report Disclaimer & Limitations
Last Updated: August 15, 2026
Where’s My Workforce reports are designed to provide practical workforce intelligence for hiring, workforce planning, expansion, and location decisions. Understanding the limitations of workforce data is an important part of using that intelligence responsibly.
1. Decision-Support Information
Where’s My Workforce reports provide research, analysis, comparisons, interpretations, and recommendations intended to support business decision-making.
Reports should be considered alongside the customer’s own operational requirements, recruiting experience, financial analysis, professional advice, and other relevant information.
2. Workforce Availability
Employment statistics describe labor-market conditions but do not represent a list of individuals immediately available for employment.
A person counted within an occupation may:
- Already be employed;
- Be unwilling to change employers;
- Live outside a practical commuting area;
- Lack qualifications required by a particular employer;
- Require compensation different from the customer’s proposed range; or
- Otherwise not be an available candidate.
Accordingly, workforce estimates should not be interpreted as guaranteed recruitable candidate counts.
3. Geographic Analysis
Labor markets do not follow perfect geographic boundaries.
Search radii, ZIP codes, counties, metropolitan areas, commuting areas, and other geographic definitions provide different perspectives on workforce conditions.
Where’s My Workforce selects and interprets geographic information according to the analysis being performed, but actual recruiting behavior may extend beyond or remain within the geographic boundaries used in a report.
4. Occupational Classification
Workforce datasets frequently rely on standardized occupational classifications.
Company-specific job titles do not always correspond perfectly with standardized occupations. Where’s My Workforce uses the occupation selected or identified as the closest reasonable representation of the work being analyzed.
Differences between a company’s actual position and the standardized occupational definition may affect the applicability of certain statistics.
5. Compensation Analysis
Wage and salary information represents market benchmarks derived from available data.
Actual compensation may vary based on:
- Experience
- Education
- Certifications
- Shift
- Industry
- Employer size
- Benefits
- Working conditions
- Specialized skills
- Location
- Current labor-market conditions
A compensation level identified as competitive does not guarantee that candidates will accept available positions.
6. Data Publication and Timing
Workforce, demographic, educational, economic, and business datasets are published on different schedules.
Some information may reflect conditions from months or years before the report date because that is the most current authoritative information available from the applicable source.
Where appropriate, Where’s My Workforce may use multiple sources or analytical techniques to provide additional context.
7. Estimates and Calculations
Some values appearing in reports may be calculated, estimated, modeled, derived, aggregated, or otherwise developed from underlying source information.
Where’s My Workforce seeks to clearly distinguish meaningful analytical findings from raw source data where appropriate.
8. Location Incentives
Information concerning tax credits, grants, training reimbursements, hiring incentives, economic development programs, and other incentives is provided for informational and site-evaluation purposes.
Where’s My Workforce may provide:
- Program descriptions
- Published eligibility requirements
- Available benefit information
- Program statistics where available
- Administering agency information
- Contact information
- Official program websites
- Comparisons between compensation requirements and the customer’s proposed wages
- Analysis of how workforce characteristics may affect apparent eligibility
9. Incentive Programs Can Change
Government programs may be modified, suspended, exhausted, replaced, terminated, or subject to new funding or legislative authorization.
Eligibility thresholds, wage requirements, application periods, funding availability, benefit calculations, and other requirements may change after a report is prepared.
Customers should contact the administering organization using the contact information provided in the report to verify current requirements before relying on an incentive in a financial or site-selection decision.
10. No Guarantee of Business Outcomes
Where’s My Workforce does not guarantee:
- That a specified number of workers can be recruited;
- That candidates will accept a particular compensation level;
- That employees will remain with an employer;
- That labor-market conditions will remain unchanged;
- That a particular site will outperform another location;
- That an incentive application will be approved;
- That an incentive will provide a particular financial benefit; or
- That a business decision based in part on a report will achieve a particular financial or operational outcome.
11. Professional Advice
Where’s My Workforce is not a law firm, accounting firm, tax advisory firm, investment adviser, or government incentive administrator.
Customers should obtain appropriate professional advice when decisions involve legal, tax, accounting, regulatory, investment, or other specialized matters.
12. Questions About a Report
If you believe information in a report requires clarification or may contain an error, contact us through the Support page and select Existing Order or Report.
