[noslenwerdna]

This response is a bit less than helpful. Could you provide an example of a metric from this diverse set that fits what the OP is asking for? I feel like there are at least two use cases from their post:

* a metric that measures if people's jobs are paying enough to put food on the table

* a metric that measures whether people's employment matches their education?

[kasey_junk]

Your first query is simply real wages. There are several real wage metrics in the bls data set. Here is a commonly referenced one: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q

Your second query is more subjective. Most people would probably point you at the U6 underemployment number as that’s the most famous one. I like the employment projections series for this kind of question though https://www.bls.gov/emp/

[twoodfin]

That real weekly wage data is basically why Trump almost and then did get reelected in one chart.

[noslenwerdna]

For the second one I was hoping there was something like employment satisfaction, but thank you!

[marcosdumay]

About the US specifically, your government reports underemployment numbers, as do almost every country report salaries distribution.

[quickthrowman]

This is all extremely well-known public information gathered and distributed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which they compile for free.

Here are all (6) unemployment measurements that the BLS makes(U1 thru U6): https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm

The BLS tracks damn near everything you could ever dream up economically: https://www.bls.gov/

Here you can browse every metric that the Federal Reserve Bank tracks: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/