{
  "updated": "2026-07-22T00:00:00Z",
  "name": "REAI market professional context",
  "purpose": "Adds sourced market-scale context beside published ranking depth without treating employment or membership estimates as the ranking denominator.",
  "ranking_boundary": "REAI ranks a curated, source-backed candidate pool. These context counts do not claim that every professional in the market was evaluated and must not be used to calculate ranking percentiles.",
  "metric_definition": "U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics estimate for wage-and-salary real estate sales-agent jobs (occupation 41-9022). OEWS excludes self-employed workers and is not a license count.",
  "default_source": {
    "publisher": "U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics",
    "dataset": "Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics",
    "reference_period": "May 2025",
    "source_url": "https://www.bls.gov/oes/2025/may/oessrcma.htm",
    "scope_url": "https://www.bls.gov/oes/oes_ques.htm"
  },
  "markets": [
    {
      "market": "Atlanta",
      "slug": "atlanta",
      "context_count": 6960,
      "geography": "Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA",
      "reference_period": "May 2025",
      "source_url": "https://data.bls.gov/oes/#/area/0012060/2025",
      "status": "current_published_estimate",
      "published_team_positions": 25,
      "published_individual_positions": 25,
      "source_backed_candidate_pool": 50,
      "interpretation": "Market-scale context only; not the REAI ranking denominator or a claim that every professional was evaluated."
    },
    {
      "market": "Boston",
      "slug": "boston",
      "context_count": 3650,
      "geography": "Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH",
      "reference_period": "May 2025",
      "source_url": "https://data.bls.gov/oes/#/area/0014460/2025",
      "status": "current_published_estimate",
      "published_team_positions": 25,
      "published_individual_positions": 25,
      "source_backed_candidate_pool": 50,
      "interpretation": "Market-scale context only; not the REAI ranking denominator or a claim that every professional was evaluated."
    },
    {
      "market": "Chicago",
      "slug": "chicago",
      "context_count": 5100,
      "geography": "Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN",
      "reference_period": "May 2025",
      "source_url": "https://data.bls.gov/oes/#/area/0016980/2025",
      "status": "current_published_estimate",
      "published_team_positions": 25,
      "published_individual_positions": 25,
      "source_backed_candidate_pool": 125,
      "interpretation": "Market-scale context only; not the REAI ranking denominator or a claim that every professional was evaluated."
    },
    {
      "market": "Dallas-Fort Worth",
      "slug": "dallas-fort-worth",
      "context_count": 6950,
      "geography": "Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX",
      "reference_period": "May 2025",
      "source_url": "https://data.bls.gov/oes/#/area/0019100/2025",
      "status": "current_published_estimate",
      "published_team_positions": 25,
      "published_individual_positions": 25,
      "source_backed_candidate_pool": 61,
      "interpretation": "Market-scale context only; not the REAI ranking denominator or a claim that every professional was evaluated."
    },
    {
      "market": "Denver",
      "slug": "denver",
      "context_count": 3920,
      "geography": "Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO",
      "reference_period": "May 2022",
      "source_url": "https://data.bls.gov/oes/#/area/0019740/2022",
      "status": "latest_available_published_estimate",
      "caveat": "Later local estimates are suppressed; May 2022 is the latest published metro estimate available for this occupation.",
      "published_team_positions": 25,
      "published_individual_positions": 25,
      "source_backed_candidate_pool": 50,
      "interpretation": "Market-scale context only; not the REAI ranking denominator or a claim that every professional was evaluated."
    },
    {
      "market": "Houston",
      "slug": "houston",
      "context_count": 5320,
      "geography": "Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX",
      "reference_period": "May 2025",
      "source_url": "https://data.bls.gov/oes/#/area/0026420/2025",
      "status": "current_published_estimate",
      "published_team_positions": 25,
      "published_individual_positions": 25,
      "source_backed_candidate_pool": 54,
      "interpretation": "Market-scale context only; not the REAI ranking denominator or a claim that every professional was evaluated."
    },
    {
      "market": "Kansas City",
      "slug": "kansas-city",
      "context_count": 990,
      "geography": "Kansas City, MO-KS",
      "reference_period": "May 2025",
      "source_url": "https://data.bls.gov/oes/#/area/0028140/2025",
      "status": "current_published_estimate",
      "published_team_positions": 25,
      "published_individual_positions": 25,
      "source_backed_candidate_pool": 50,
      "interpretation": "Market-scale context only; not the REAI ranking denominator or a claim that every professional was evaluated."
    },
    {
      "market": "Las Vegas",
      "slug": "las-vegas",
      "context_count": 940,
      "geography": "Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV",
      "reference_period": "May 2025",
      "source_url": "https://data.bls.gov/oes/#/area/0029820/2025",
      "status": "current_published_estimate",
      "published_team_positions": 25,
      "published_individual_positions": 25,
      "source_backed_candidate_pool": 50,
      "interpretation": "Market-scale context only; not the REAI ranking denominator or a claim that every professional was evaluated."
    },
    {
      "market": "Los Angeles",
      "slug": "los-angeles",
      "context_count": 7340,
      "geography": "Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA",
      "reference_period": "May 2025",
      "source_url": "https://data.bls.gov/oes/#/area/0031080/2025",
      "status": "current_published_estimate",
      "published_team_positions": 25,
      "published_individual_positions": 25,
      "source_backed_candidate_pool": 88,
      "interpretation": "Market-scale context only; not the REAI ranking denominator or a claim that every professional was evaluated."
    },
    {
      "market": "Miami / South Florida",
      "slug": "miami-south-florida",
      "context_count": 9160,
      "geography": "Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL",
      "reference_period": "May 2025",
      "source_url": "https://data.bls.gov/oes/#/area/0033100/2025",
      "status": "current_published_estimate",
      "published_team_positions": 25,
      "published_individual_positions": 25,
      "source_backed_candidate_pool": 50,
      "interpretation": "Market-scale context only; not the REAI ranking denominator or a claim that every professional was evaluated."
    },
    {
      "market": "Minneapolis-St. Paul",
      "slug": "minneapolis-st-paul",
      "context_count": 1980,
      "geography": "Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI",
      "reference_period": "May 2025",
      "source_url": "https://data.bls.gov/oes/#/area/0033460/2025",
      "status": "current_published_estimate",
      "published_team_positions": 25,
      "published_individual_positions": 25,
      "source_backed_candidate_pool": 50,
      "interpretation": "Market-scale context only; not the REAI ranking denominator or a claim that every professional was evaluated."
    },
    {
      "market": "Nashville",
      "slug": "nashville",
      "context_count": 1080,
      "geography": "Nashville-Davidson-Murfreesboro-Franklin, TN",
      "reference_period": "May 2025",
      "source_url": "https://data.bls.gov/oes/#/area/0034980/2025",
      "status": "current_published_estimate",
      "published_team_positions": 25,
      "published_individual_positions": 25,
      "source_backed_candidate_pool": 50,
      "interpretation": "Market-scale context only; not the REAI ranking denominator or a claim that every professional was evaluated."
    },
    {
      "market": "New York Metro",
      "slug": "new-york-metro",
      "context_count": 8320,
      "geography": "New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ",
      "reference_period": "May 2025",
      "source_url": "https://data.bls.gov/oes/#/area/0035620/2025",
      "status": "current_published_estimate",
      "published_team_positions": 25,
      "published_individual_positions": 25,
      "source_backed_candidate_pool": 118,
      "interpretation": "Market-scale context only; not the REAI ranking denominator or a claim that every professional was evaluated."
    },
    {
      "market": "Orlando",
      "slug": "orlando",
      "context_count": 4470,
      "geography": "Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL",
      "reference_period": "May 2025",
      "source_url": "https://data.bls.gov/oes/#/area/0036740/2025",
      "status": "current_published_estimate",
      "published_team_positions": 25,
      "published_individual_positions": 25,
      "source_backed_candidate_pool": 50,
      "interpretation": "Market-scale context only; not the REAI ranking denominator or a claim that every professional was evaluated."
    },
    {
      "market": "Philadelphia",
      "slug": "philadelphia",
      "context_count": 2780,
      "geography": "Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD",
      "reference_period": "May 2025",
      "source_url": "https://data.bls.gov/oes/#/area/0037980/2025",
      "status": "current_published_estimate",
      "published_team_positions": 25,
      "published_individual_positions": 25,
      "source_backed_candidate_pool": 50,
      "interpretation": "Market-scale context only; not the REAI ranking denominator or a claim that every professional was evaluated."
    },
    {
      "market": "San Diego",
      "slug": "san-diego",
      "context_count": 1350,
      "geography": "San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA",
      "reference_period": "May 2025",
      "source_url": "https://data.bls.gov/oes/#/area/0041740/2025",
      "status": "current_published_estimate",
      "published_team_positions": 25,
      "published_individual_positions": 25,
      "source_backed_candidate_pool": 50,
      "interpretation": "Market-scale context only; not the REAI ranking denominator or a claim that every professional was evaluated."
    },
    {
      "market": "San Francisco Bay Area",
      "slug": "san-francisco-bay-area",
      "context_count": 3540,
      "geography": "San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont plus San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara",
      "reference_period": "May 2025 and May 2023",
      "source_url": "https://data.bls.gov/oes/#/area/0041860/2025",
      "additional_source_url": "https://data.bls.gov/oes/#/area/0041940/2023",
      "status": "composite_latest_available_published_estimates",
      "caveat": "Composite of the May 2025 San Francisco-Oakland estimate (2,100) and the latest published San Jose estimate, May 2023 (1,440), because the May 2025 San Jose estimate is suppressed.",
      "published_team_positions": 25,
      "published_individual_positions": 25,
      "source_backed_candidate_pool": 50,
      "interpretation": "Market-scale context only; not the REAI ranking denominator or a claim that every professional was evaluated."
    },
    {
      "market": "Seattle",
      "slug": "seattle",
      "context_count": 3790,
      "geography": "Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA",
      "reference_period": "May 2025",
      "source_url": "https://data.bls.gov/oes/#/area/0042660/2025",
      "status": "current_published_estimate",
      "published_team_positions": 25,
      "published_individual_positions": 25,
      "source_backed_candidate_pool": 50,
      "interpretation": "Market-scale context only; not the REAI ranking denominator or a claim that every professional was evaluated."
    },
    {
      "market": "St. Louis",
      "slug": "st-louis",
      "context_count": 740,
      "geography": "St. Louis, MO-IL",
      "reference_period": "May 2025",
      "source_url": "https://data.bls.gov/oes/#/area/0041180/2025",
      "status": "current_published_estimate",
      "published_team_positions": 25,
      "published_individual_positions": 25,
      "source_backed_candidate_pool": 50,
      "interpretation": "Market-scale context only; not the REAI ranking denominator or a claim that every professional was evaluated."
    },
    {
      "market": "Washington DC / Northern Virginia",
      "slug": "washington-dc-northern-virginia",
      "context_count": 3250,
      "geography": "Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV",
      "reference_period": "May 2025",
      "source_url": "https://data.bls.gov/oes/#/area/0047900/2025",
      "status": "current_published_estimate",
      "published_team_positions": 25,
      "published_individual_positions": 25,
      "source_backed_candidate_pool": 51,
      "interpretation": "Market-scale context only; not the REAI ranking denominator or a claim that every professional was evaluated."
    }
  ],
  "national_context": {
    "bls_sales_agent_jobs": 193370,
    "bls_reference_period": "May 2025",
    "bls_source_url": "https://www.bls.gov/oes/2025/may/oes419022.htm",
    "nar_members": 1438569,
    "nar_reference_date": "2026-06-14",
    "nar_source_url": "https://www.nar.realtor/news/real-estate-news/nar-leaders-share-strategic-plan-momentum-membership-count-above-budget-forecast",
    "boundary": "BLS employment and NAR membership are separate industry context measures. Neither is a national REAI ranking denominator, and NAR membership is not the same as a licensed-agent count."
  },
  "generated_at": "2026-07-25T22:49:04Z"
}