Clean REST APIs for
US Financial, Economic & Labor Data

Government data from SEC EDGAR, the Census Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the Small Business Administration is messy. Thesma parses it into structured JSON so you can build with it instead of fighting it.

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Request

curl https://api.thesma.dev/v1/us/sec/companies/0000320193/financials?statement=income&period=annual&year=2024 \
  -H "X-API-Key: your_api_key"

Response

{
  "data": {
    "company": {
      "cik": "0000320193",
      "ticker": "AAPL",
      "name": "Apple Inc."
    },
    "statement": "income",
    "period": "annual",
    "fiscal_year": 2024,
    "fiscal_year_end": "2024-09-28",
    "filing_accession": "0000320193-24-000123",
    "currency": "USD",
    "line_items": {
      "revenue": 391035000000,
      "cost_of_revenue": 210352000000,
      "gross_profit": 180683000000,
      "operating_income": 123216000000,
      "net_income": 93736000000,
      "eps_diluted": 6.08,
      "shares_diluted": 15408095000
    },
    "metadata": {
      "source": "ixbrl",
      "data_completeness": 7,
      "expected_fields": 16
    }
  }
}

Request

# Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim metro (FIPS 31080)
curl https://api.thesma.dev/v1/us/census/places/31080 \
  -H "X-API-Key: your_api_key"

Response

{
  "data": {
    "fips": "31080",
    "name": "Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA",
    "level": "metro",
    "year": 2024,
    "dataset": "acs5",
    "survey_years": { "from": 2020, "to": 2024 },
    "metrics": [
      {
        "canonical_name": "median_household_income",
        "display_name": "Median Household Income",
        "category": "income",
        "value": 95958,
        "moe": 378,
        "unit": "dollars",
        "suppressed": false
      },
      {
        "canonical_name": "total_population",
        "display_name": "Total Population",
        "category": "population",
        "value": 12974487,
        "moe": null,
        "unit": "count",
        "suppressed": false
      },
      {
        "canonical_name": "poverty_rate",
        "display_name": "Poverty Rate",
        "category": "income",
        "value": 0.1270,
        "moe": 0.0014,
        "unit": "percent",
        "suppressed": false
      },
      {
        "canonical_name": "median_home_value",
        "display_name": "Median Home Value",
        "category": "housing",
        "value": 871300,
        "moe": 1892,
        "unit": "dollars",
        "suppressed": false
      }
    ]
  }
}

Request

# Accounting & Tax Preparation (NAICS 5412)
curl https://api.thesma.dev/v1/us/bls/industries/5412/employment/latest \
  -H "X-API-Key: your_api_key"

Response

{
  "data": {
    "naics_code": "5412",
    "industry_name": "Accounting, Tax Preparation, Bookkeeping & Payroll",
    "area": "National",
    "data_period": "2025-12",
    "all_employees_thousands": 1128.4,
    "employment_yoy_pct": 2.1,
    "avg_hourly_earnings": 42.35,
    "earnings_yoy_pct": 3.8,
    "avg_weekly_earnings": 1575.4,
    "footnote_code": null
  }
}

Request

# Loans approved in Cook County, IL (FIPS 17031) — recent quarters
curl https://api.thesma.dev/v1/us/sba/counties/17031/lending \
  -H "X-API-Key: your_api_key"

Response

{
  "data": [
    {
      "year": 2025,
      "quarter": 4,
      "period": "2025-Q4",
      "county_fips": "17031",
      "loan_count": 188,
      "total_amount": 100084300,
      "avg_amount": 532363.30,
      "median_amount": null,
      "guaranteed_amount": 73799865,
      "avg_guarantee_pct": 73.74,
      "jobs_supported": 2624,
      "charge_off_count": 0,
      "charge_off_rate": 0.0,
      "charge_off_amount": 0.0,
      "naics_code": null,
      "naics_match_level": null,
      "source": "SBA"
    }
  ],
  "pagination": {
    "page": 1,
    "per_page": 25,
    "total": 1,
    "total_pages": 1
  }
}

SEC EDGAR

📊

Structured Financials

10-K and 10-Q income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow. 68 canonical fields normalised across all companies.

📋

Insider Trades & Events

Form 4 transactions and 8-K material events. Parsed, categorised, and searchable.

🏦

Institutional Holdings

13F filings with quarter-over-quarter position changes. Track what the big funds are buying.

💼

Executive Compensation

DEF 14A proxy data: CEO pay, board members, committee details. Structured from unstructured filings.

US Census Bureau

📈

Demographic & Economic Data

26 curated metrics across income, population, housing, education, employment, race & ethnicity, and health insurance. Human-readable names, margin of error on every value.

🗺️

Geographic Coverage

6 levels from nation down to census tract. Time series, cross-place comparison, metro area breakdowns.

Bureau of Labor Statistics

📊

Employment & Wages

Monthly payroll employment and average earnings by industry. National, state, and metro coverage. 14 supersectors down to 6-digit NAICS detail.

🏘️

County Labor Markets

Quarterly county-level employment and wages from QCEW. 3,100+ counties. Suppression-aware fallback to coarser NAICS levels when county data is confidential.

💰

Occupation Wages

Hourly and annual wages by occupation, industry, and geography from OEWS. 800+ occupations. Percentile distributions (10th, 25th, median, 75th, 90th).

📈

Labor Market Tightness

Job openings, hires, quits, and layoff rates from JOLTS. Industry and state breakdowns. Turnover signals for macro analysis and company-level enrichment.

Small Business Administration

💵

Loan-Level 7(a) Disclosures

Every SBA 7(a) small-business loan approved since 1991 — ~$31B across ~70,000 loans in FY2024 alone. Indexed by county, industry (NAICS), and lender.

🏛️

County Lending Aggregates

Per-county quarterly aggregates: loan count, YoY growth, total and guaranteed amount, average loan size, jobs supported, and charge-off rate. FIPS-keyed cross-joins to SEC companies, Census demographics, and BLS labor markets.

📉

Industry + Lender Views

NAICS-indexed industry lending trends and ranked lender performance. Top lenders by loan volume, charge-off rates, and market share — useful for small-business-credit diligence and lender-concentration risk.

🔗

Cross-Dataset Enrichment

Add ?include=lending_context to any SEC company endpoint for the company HQ county's SBA 7(a) lending activity. Small-business credit conditions alongside financials, labor, and demographics in one call.

Cross-dataset intelligence, one API key

Thesma links SEC companies to BLS industry employment, county wages, and compensation benchmarks automatically. Add ?include=labor_context to any company endpoint and get hiring trends, wage growth, and occupational pay data alongside financials. The screener surfaces these signals as filters — hiring trend, wage growth, and comp-to-market ratio — so you can screen for companies in fast-growing or tightening labor markets without writing a single join.

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SEC EDGAR

1.4M+

SEC filings parsed

~6,000

US public companies on NYSE and NASDAQ

Filing types

US Census Bureau

85,000+

Places covered

Curated metrics

Geographic levels

Bureau of Labor Statistics

BLS datasets

3,100+

Counties covered

800+

Occupations tracked

Small Business Administration

~70,000

Loans per year

~$31B

Approved annually

Since 1991

Historical coverage

Powered by SEC EDGAR, US Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics & Small Business Administration — data sourced directly from official government systems.

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Clean REST APIs forUS Financial, Economic & Labor Data

SEC EDGAR

Structured Financials

Insider Trades & Events

Institutional Holdings

Executive Compensation

US Census Bureau

Demographic & Economic Data

Geographic Coverage

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Employment & Wages

County Labor Markets

Occupation Wages

Labor Market Tightness

Small Business Administration

Loan-Level 7(a) Disclosures

County Lending Aggregates

Industry + Lender Views

Cross-Dataset Enrichment

Cross-dataset intelligence, one API key

How it works

Sign up

Get your API key

Start building

Start free. Scale when you're ready.

SEC EDGAR

US Census Bureau

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Small Business Administration

Clean REST APIs for
US Financial, Economic & Labor Data