The price is a consequence of how this is sold
Data Tactical Group publishes its self-serve prices. This page describes the way the company operates, which is what sets them. It is not a discount and it is not a promotion.
Self-serve, start to finish
An account is created in the app. A plan, its counties, its seats and its API keys are bought, changed and cancelled in the app. Invoices are issued by the app. Nobody quotes a self-serve price, schedules a demonstration, or negotiates terms, and the pricing page is the price sheet. A sales process is a cost, and it is a cost that ends up in a price. There is none here.
The work is done once per release
QCEW is public. DTG’s contribution is the work the published record does not do for you: completing the values the Bureau of Labor Statistics withholds, extending the series past the latest release, building occupation figures on the industry base, restating everything onto current classifications, projecting ten years forward, and versioning the result so a figure can be cited and recovered. That work is done once for each vintage and served to every customer. The cost of serving one more customer is small, and the price is set from DTG’s own costs.
Operations are mostly software
Entitlements, metering, billing, seats, organizations and trials are handled by the application. A person at Data Tactical Group steps in only for the things the Terms leave to DTG: a credit, and the plan of an organization that is invoiced by agreement. Support is a person answering at the support address, working alongside documentation written to answer the questions a data product actually gets, which are mostly questions of definition. A company run this way can be small, and a small company can charge a small price.
Self-serve prices are published
Publishing prices is only possible when the terms are simple enough to publish. Every self-serve allowance, price and rule is on the pricing page, and the same numbers are the ones the app charges. An organization that must buy by purchase order is invoiced under a written agreement, which sets that organization’s terms.
What the price does not buy
It does not buy an account manager, a named representative, or a telephone line. It does not buy custom research, consulting, or a report written for you. It does not buy on-site training. It does not buy a negotiated contract, except that organizations that must buy by purchase order can be invoiced by arrangement. It does not include the API, which is a separate annual add-on. And it does not come with certifications that have not been earned; the security page says which those are.
What it does buy is the data, with every estimated value labeled as one, in a working tool, at a price stated in advance.