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
contacts.last_name
contacts.gender
contacts.email
contacts.professional_title
contacts.job_titles
contacts.job_function_id
contacts.management_level
contacts.title_codes
contacts.primary
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
primary_contact.last_name
primary_contact.gender
primary_contact.email
primary_contact.professional_title
primary_contact.job_titles
primary_contact.job_function_id
primary_contact.management_level
primary_contact.title_codes
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.
To find similar contacts across organizations, it's usually easier to use these fields than to search by job title directly. For example:
Description | Terms |
Operations Managers |
Contacts: Management Level:Manager Contacts: Job Function:Audit > Internal Control > Inventory |
Information Technology Executives |
Contacts: Management Level:Executive Contacts: Job Function:Product > Engineering > Information Technology |
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
estimated_location_employee_count
corporate_employee_count
estimated_corporate_employee_count
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:
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.