Lightcast maps the whole labor market: every industry, every occupation, every skill. ClinicalRate goes deep on one corner of it: what clinical roles pay and bill, by specialty and metro, today.
Lightcast (formed from the merger of Emsi and Burning Glass Technologies) is one of the most widely used labor market datasets: job postings, online profiles, and government statistics, organized around occupations and skills across every industry. Workforce boards, colleges, and enterprise talent teams use it to understand supply, demand, and skills gaps.
Healthcare staffing needs a narrower, sharper instrument. The question on a pricing desk is not “how many nursing jobs are open in Ohio” but “what does a night-shift ICU traveler in Columbus pay and bill this week, and what margin is left.” That needs specialty-level roles, contingent contract economics, and bill rates, not just advertised salaries.
ClinicalRate is built for that question: 428 canonical clinical roles, pay and bill rates by state and metro, split by travel, per diem, local contract and permanent, refreshed every business day and delivered through a UI, read API, and warehouse share.
Broad labor market analytics vs a specialist rate dataset. Here is the capability-level view.
Lightcast is excellent at breadth. We win when the job is pricing clinical labor.
For healthcare staffing pricing, yes. If your team uses Lightcast mainly to look up what nurses and allied clinicians are paid, ClinicalRate gives you specialty-level pay and bill rates by metro, refreshed daily. For cross-industry labor market and skills analysis, Lightcast does a job ClinicalRate does not try to do.
It depends on the question. For clinical pay and bill rates in the contingent market, a specialist dataset like ClinicalRate. For company-level workforce composition, Revelio Labs. For talent supply on LinkedIn, LinkedIn Talent Insights. For employed physician compensation, MGMA or SullivanCotter surveys. For broad occupational wages, BLS OEWS.
Yes. Healthcare is a large share of any job postings dataset, and Lightcast covers it alongside every other industry. The difference is depth: ClinicalRate models clinical specialties, employment types, and bill rates specifically, because that is what staffing pricing runs on.
No. The taxonomy is 428 clinical roles across nursing, allied health, advanced practice, and physician. Teams that also need non-clinical labor data often keep a broad dataset alongside ClinicalRate.
Yes. Book a demo and bring a role and market you price today. We will show you the live pay and bill rate distribution, the sample size behind it, and how it splits by employment type.
Bring a specialty and a metro you price this week. We’ll show you live pay and bill rates for that exact role, with the sample behind every number.