Choose locations with the right talent at the right cost, backed by data you can defend. Compare candidate regions, weigh the trade-offs, and build the recommendation your client will challenge, all in one workspace from first question to final answer.
The Data You Need Before You Commit
Access detailed data on labor force size, age, education, commuting, and wages to assess talent pipelines and regional labor availability.
Improve Regional Competitiveness With Location Benchmarking
Chmura’s LaborEQ compares locations by workforce, wages, business costs, and talent supply, helping you weigh trade-offs and choose sites backed by solid data.
Understand Housing Capacity for Incoming Workers
Use proprietary forecasts to determine if housing can support incoming workers. Factor in cost of living, regional readiness, and long-term sustainability.
JobsEQ Pro: Workforce Insights for Confident Location Decisions
Find best-fit expansion sites with hyperlocal data that shows workforce and cost factors from the region down to the block level.
Use built-in tools to back recommendations with evidence and speed up RFP responses.
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View labor force, talent pipeline, and demographic data at block or ZIP code level
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Define custom regions with shape files, drive times, or radius zones
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Quickly create data-rich RFP and due diligence responses with our AI assistant
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Assess skills, commuting patterns, wage competitiveness, and education pipelines
LaborEQ: Market Comparisons for Effective Site Selection
LaborEQ enables you to compare Metropolitan Statistical Areas by workforce, wages, training pipelines, turnover, cost of living, and more. Customize weightings, model staffing needs, and benchmark industries or occupations in one intuitive grid.
Client Success Story: How GLS Uses JobsEQ to Outpace Competitors
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Global Location Strategies (GLS), a leading site selection firm, uses JobsEQ to assess labor supply, cost, and readiness across candidate regions. |
Our platform gives GLS the speed and accuracy to outperform competitors and deliver sharper client recommendations. |
Expert Consulting for Site Selection Decisions
Chmura’s consulting team delivers custom, data-rich reports to guide site selection. Whether comparing locations or evaluating talent supply, our economists produce the analysis and stand behind the method.
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Workforce Availability & Readiness Analyses -
Determine if a region or potential expansion site has the talent to support growth. We assess labor shed supply, wage competitiveness, transferable skills, and workforce pipelines to validate location choices and strengthen recruitment strategies.
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Peer Region Benchmarking
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Compare regions to competitive metros or target markets. Our peer region analysis evaluates wages, demographics, and workforce strengths to reveal where a region leads, lags, or has untapped potential.
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Unmatched Data Coverage and Depth
JobsEQ gives site selection professionals actionable labor market data, local job postings, forecasts, and block-level insights in one workspace to explore the data, build the charts and maps, and assemble the location case. No exporting, no rebuilding it somewhere else. Bring your own data alongside JobsEQ’s, so client criteria, site shortlists, or internal cost assumptions sit next to the labor market picture, and work on a canvas with colleagues and comment in place while the recommendation takes shape. Included on all JobsEQ licenses.
Free Training and Live Chat With Labor Experts
Every JobsEQ subscription includes onboarding and 1:1 support from our team of economists. JobsEQ includes live chat staffed by experts who provide fast answers whenever you need them.
Preferred Consulting Rates for Clients
Need labor market or peer region reports? JobsEQ clients can leverage on-demand consulting studies from our team of Ph.D. economists and strategy consultants at a discounted rate.