Chmura

What Chmura does

Chmura Economics & Analytics LLC is a privately-held applied economics firm founded in 2000 and headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, with 51-100 employees. It sells labor market intelligence software (anchored by the JobsEQ platform) alongside custom economic and workforce consulting delivered by Ph.D. and Blue Chip economists. The JobsEQ platform integrates structured labor market data with real-time job postings aggregated from over 45,000 sources, supporting compensation benchmarking (Salary Sonar), career pathway mapping (Career Concourse), resume parsing (Resume Forensics), housing demand analytics, and an AI Assistant Module in beta. Data is delivered through self-service subscriptions, public API, embeddable widgets, and the Snowflake Data Cloud.

Revenue is generated through three streams: recurring JobsEQ software subscriptions, recurring data feed and API access, and project-based custom consulting engagements such as economic and fiscal impact studies, industry analysis, and site selection support. Pricing is quote-based and varies by organizational type and scope; no public price list exists. Go-to-market is hybrid, combining enterprise field sales for economic development organizations, workforce boards, higher education, healthcare, and corporate buyers with self-service platform access and cloud-native data delivery for technical buyers.

Customers are concentrated in economic development, workforce development, higher education, healthcare, and government, with named logos including the Department of Defense, NIH, HCA Healthcare, Texas Workforce Commission, Metro Atlanta, Old Dominion University, Clemson University, and Goodwill. The firm is bootstrapped and founder-owned by Chris Chmura, with no disclosed external funding rounds, and in 2025 it extended JobsEQ coverage to 17 countries while launching Salary Sonar, Canvas, the Housing Demand Analytic, and the AI Assistant Module.

Name

Chmura

Legal name

Chmura Economics & Analytics LLC

Website

https://chmura.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2000

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Chmura Economics & Analytics is a privately-held Richmond, Virginia firm that sells the JobsEQ labor market analytics platform and Ph.D.-led economic consulting to economic development organizations, workforce boards, universities, healthcare systems, and government agencies.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Richmond

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. JobsEQ Software Platform Subscription: Subscription-based access to the JobsEQ labor market analytics platform. Includes self-service access to labor market data, workforce analytics, compensation benchmarks, and regional analysis tools. Tiered based on organizational type and access level.
2. Data Feeds and API Access: Direct JobsEQ data feeds via API, Snowflake delivery, and embeddable widgets for integration into internal models and dashboards. Revenue from data delivery services alongside or independent of full platform subscription.
3. Custom Consulting Services: Ph.D. and Blue Chip economists provide custom economic and fiscal impact studies, industry and labor market analysis, economic development strategic planning, socioeconomic benchmarking, site selection analysis, education alignment studies, public policy analysis, and other custom advisory services.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Chmura sells the JobsEQ labor market analytics platform, which integrates structured labor market data with real-time job postings from over 45,000 sources to support workforce planning, site selection, education alignment, and compensation benchmarking. The platform is complemented by specialized tools (Salary Sonar, Career Concourse, Resume Forensics, Housing Demand Analytic) and a suite of custom consulting services delivered by Ph.D. and Blue Chip economists covering economic impact studies, fiscal impact analysis, strategic planning, and public policy advisory.

Product overview

Chmura is an economics and analytics company offering labor market intelligence software and economic consulting services. Its primary product is the JobsEQ platform, a comprehensive labor market analytics platform that integrates real-time job postings data from over 45,000 sources with structured workforce data. The product portfolio includes JobsEQ as the core platform, complemented by specialized tools: Career Concourse for educational institution career exploration and program alignment; Resume Forensics for resume parsing and skills analysis; Salary Sonar for real-time compensation benchmarking; Housing Demand Analytic for community workforce planning; Canvas (in beta) for custom report building; and an AI Assistant Module (in beta) for AI-powered labor market query support. Chmura's consulting services, delivered by Ph.D. and Blue Chip economists, provide economic impact analysis, workforce strategy, and regional planning advisory.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• JobsEQ: Primary labor market analytics platform used to analyze labor market conditions, occupations, wages, industries, workforce supply and demand, and regional economic trends.
• Career Concourse
• Resume Forensics
• Canvas
• Salary Sonar

Products and services

• JobsEQ Primary labor market analytics platform providing workforce intelligence, labor market data, wage analysis, job posting analytics, location intelligence, and regional economic trend analysis. Integrates real-time job postings data from over 45,000 sources with structured labor market data for organizations making workforce and economic decisions.
• Salary Sonar Real-time compensation benchmarking tool that provides current percentile compensation data by role and region, combining BLS data with real-time job ad wage information to project forward approximately one year beyond standard BLS OEWS data.
• Career Concourse Career exploration and program alignment tool for educational institutions that helps students and advisors connect academic programs to career outcomes and regional labor market demand through CIP-to-SOC mapping.
• Resume Forensics Resume parsing and skills analysis tool that extracts structured data from resumes for workforce analysis, talent matching, skills gap identification, and candidate sourcing hotspot mapping.
• Housing Demand Analytic Labor market analytic that helps communities project housing demand based on workforce growth for strategic planning, integrated within the JobsEQ platform.
• JobsEQ AI Assistant Module AI-powered module assisting JobsEQ users with labor market analysis queries, automating database searches, and generating responses. Currently in Beta testing using third-party large language models.
• Canvas Custom report-building product for creating custom labor market and workforce reports and analyses; currently in limited beta.
• Consulting Services Economic and consulting services delivered by Ph.D. and Blue Chip economists, including industry and labor market analysis, economic and fiscal impact studies, economic development strategic planning, socioeconomic benchmarking and site selection, education alignment and alumni reports, public policy analysis, and other custom advisory services.

Quantifiable outcome

• Median wage forecast error reduced by 49% compared to baseline using prior year data
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers15 records

Segments8 records

Ideal customer profiles8 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

AI capability4 records

Feature9 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered major and core.

• Ford and SK InnovationmajorOthers · 1 January 2021Ford and SK Innovation were the end customers who selected West Tennessee for BlueOval City based on JobsEQ labor market analysis provided by VisionFirst and HTL Advantage. The $5.6 billion investment creates approximately 6,000 jobs.
• VisionFirst AdvisorscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020VisionFirst Advisors, led by Greg Word, used JobsEQ to complete comprehensive labor pool analysis for the Memphis Regional Megasite to promote the site to Ford and SK Innovation. The analysis helped HTL Advantage win the BlueOval City project.
• MassHire Berkshire Workforce BoardmajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020Chmura provided a custom COVID-19 recession Impact Study to help Berkshire County understand economic impact, track employment recovery, and take data-driven action. Collaboration used Chmura's Onstage platform for report sharing.
• Evansville Regional Business CommitteecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2017ERBC partnered with Chmura in 2017 for the Talent 2025 initiative to make Southwest Indiana the talent and economic region of choice. Chmura developed socioeconomic indicators, identified peer regions, and continues to provide annual updates tracking regional progress.
• HTL AdvantagecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2009HTL Advantage represents Haywood, Tipton, and Lauderdale counties in West Tennessee for industrial development. Partnered with VisionFirst using JobsEQ to bring Ford and SK Innovation's BlueOval City EV manufacturing campus to the region.
• SnowflakecoreTechnology or IntegrationSnowflake partnership enables JobsEQ data delivery via Snowflake Data Cloud, allowing customers to integrate Chmura's labor market data into enterprise data warehouses and analytics environments using Snowflake's platform infrastructure.
• Global Location Strategies (GLS)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGLS uses JobsEQ as an integral part of their site selection toolkit. GLS President Didi Caldwell has over 20 years of experience and uses JobsEQ for labor market analysis in client location decisions. Chmura product team incorporates GLS recommendations into software improvements.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Lightcast: Lightcast (formed by the merger of Emsi and Burning Glass Technologies) is the largest direct competitor in labor market analytics, offering overlapping products in job postings analytics, wage benchmarking, and regional economic intelligence for economic development, education, and corporate customers.
• TalentNeuron (Gartner): TalentNeuron, owned by Gartner, provides talent intelligence and workforce planning analytics to support corporate site selection, workforce strategy, and HR decisions, overlapping directly with Chmura's enterprise and site selection consulting offerings.
• Atlas Data Systems (LMI): LMI (formerly known as Atlas Data Systems) provides labor market information tools used by state workforce agencies, with comparable customers and overlapping product capabilities to JobsEQ.

Emerging players

• Revelio Labs: Revelio Labs provides workforce and labor market intelligence derived from alternative data sources, serving economic research and corporate strategy teams. Its data-driven approach to workforce dynamics overlaps with Chmura's JobsEQ analytics platform.
• Indeed Hiring Lab: Indeed Hiring Lab publishes labor market research and analytics built on Indeed's proprietary job postings data, intersecting Chmura's economic development and workforce analytics research at the labor market intelligence layer.
• Appridat Insights: Appridat provides workforce analytics and economic impact analysis for economic development organizations, offering comparable economic impact and labor market studies to Chmura's consulting services.

Broad incumbents

• LinkedIn Talent Insights: LinkedIn Talent Insights is a broader incumbent offering talent market analytics drawn from LinkedIn's professional network, serving corporate HR and workforce planning teams with overlapping use cases to Chmura's enterprise segment.

Others

• MNI Targeted Media / Domesticates: MNI Targeted Media provides economic and demographic data services with overlap in regional labor market intelligence used for economic development, site selection, and workforce analytics use cases.
• Site Selection Group: Site Selection Group is a corporate site selection consultancy that consumes labor market data to advise corporate clients, making it an adjacent buyer and ecosystem partner comparable to Chmura's economic development customer segment.
• RealPage / Yardi (Workforce and Resident Analytics): RealPage provides multifamily housing market analytics that overlap with Chmura's newly launched Housing Demand Analytic for community workforce planning tied to housing demand.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/chmura-economics-analytics
• Facebookfacebook.com/ChmuraEconomics
• Xx.com/chmuraecon

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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