Overview

Data Axle aggregates employee and contact data from a variety of public sources such as SEC documents, press releases, company websites, annual reports, and telephone interviews.

Contacts include specific details about executives and decision-makers at a place. Employee Counts refer to numeric counts of people working at a place.

Contacts

Contacts are the known employees at a place. When a place is known to have many employees, additional contacts are collected. The primary features of a contact are their name, job title and email.

• contacts.first_name - The first name of the individual.
• contacts.last_name - The last name of the individual.
• contacts.gender - The gender of the individual.
• contacts.email - The email address of the contact.
• contacts.professional_title - The professional degree or title of the individual.
• contacts.job_titles - Descriptive label of the individual's job
• contacts.job_function_id - Describes the type of work an employee performs in their organization.

• contacts.management_level - Describes the contact's position relative to others in their organization.

• contacts.title_codes - A list of the individual's job titles.

• contacts.primary - Information on whether the individual is the primary contact for the location.

Primary Contact

A primary contact from the list of contacts is always designated to each place. The attributes available on the primary contact are the same as those on a normal contact:

• primary_contact.first_name - The first name of the individual.
• primary_contact.last_name - The last name of the individual.
• primary_contact.gender - The gender of the individual.
• primary_contact.email - The email address of the contact.
• primary_contact.professional_title - The professional degree or title of the individual.
• primary_contact.job_titles - Descriptive label of the individual's job
• primary_contact.job_function_id - Describes the type of work an employee performs in their organization.

• primary_contact.management_level - Describes the contact's position relative to others in their organization.

• primary_contact.title_codes - A list of the individual's job titles.

Vendor Contacts

We offer additional contacts sourced from third-party vendors. Use of this data is usually subject to additional royalties.

Speak with your sales representative to learn more about vendor contacts.

Email Data

Data Axle business contacts include email data. See the emails data guide for more details.

Job Functions & Management Levels

We determine a contact's job function and management level by analyzing their job titles. It is possible for one, both, or neither of these fields to be assigned.

• contacts.job_function_id - Describes the type of work an employee performs in their organization.
• contacts.management_level - Describes the contact's position relative to others in their organization.

To find similar contacts across organizations, it's usually easier to use these fields than to search by job title directly. For example:

Employee Count

We collect both actual and estimated employee count data for both locations and corporations. Volunteers are never included in counts, unless the location has no paid employees.

• location_employee_count - The number of employees who work at this place.
• estimated_location_employee_count - Estimates the number of employees who work at this location.
• corporate_employee_count - The actual, reported total number of employees at all locations in a corporate family.
• estimated_corporate_employee_count - Estimates the total number of employees at all locations in a corporate family.

Location vs Corporate

Location counts only include employees at that location. Corporate employee counts include all employees in a corporate family. A headquarters can have both a location and corporate employee count.

See also:

• Corporate Linkage

Actual vs Estimated

Estimated count fields contain the actual value when one is available. Otherwise, a value is estimated. Because of this, the estimated fields have a higher fill rate.

Sorting

Contacts are sorted according to their Title Code Ranking (lowest to highest) and last name.

Sorted Example

{
  ...,
  "contacts": [
    { "first_name": "Jane", "last_name": "Doe", "title_codes": ["C"] },
    { "first_name": "John", "last_name": "Smith", "title_codes": ["C"] },
    { "first_name": "David", "last_name": "Anderson", "title_codes": ["9"] },
    ...
  ]
}

Notice in the above example, both Jane Doe and John Smith appear first in the list because they are CEOs (Title Code 'C' has rank 1). Furthermore, Jane is sorted before John based on last name.