---
id: "us_soc_code"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["industry"]
country: ["US"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 75
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/us_soc_code"
---

# US Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) code (`us_soc_code`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Six-digit code of the US Standard Occupational Classification, maintained by the Office of Management and Budget and the SOC Policy Committee of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a hyphen after the second digit. The 23 major groups are the odd numbers from 11 to 55; the ending of the code shows the level, from major group (xx-0000) to detailed occupation. The format is the same in the 2010 and 2018 editions.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Industry (industry)
- Countries: United States (US)
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: categorical

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^(?:[1-4][13579]|5[135])-\d{4}$
```

## Examples

- `15-1252` — Software Developers
- `29-1022` — Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
- `12-1011` (invalid example) — 12 is not a major group

## Sources

- doc: <https://www.bls.gov/soc/2018/soc_2018_user_guide.pdf>

## Quality

Score 75/100. Missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation, detector coverage.

JSON: <https://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/us_soc_code.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/US/industry/us_soc_code.yaml>