This may be the wrong forum for this, but just curious what kind of data the IRS makes available to people. I guess I could just call them. But I'm most interested in raw data. Do you happen to know if it's easy to grab, say, a flat file of all 2015 w-2 wages with zip code? That's a lot of records but easily something excel could handle. I'd like to see the distribution of wages in different areas.
Data available from the IRS
May 07, 2016
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Have you looked at the IRS website?
First of all, they don't disclose any information on individuals. But they do keep statistics. Here's at least one:
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Form-W2-Statistics
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The department of Labor website,
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has a quarterly count of employment and wages reported by employers covering 98 percent of U.S. jobs, available at the county, MSA, state and national levels by industry. Look around: maybe they have what you are looking for.
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