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Payroll Based Journal Employee Detail Nursing Home Staffing

The Payroll Based Journal (PBJ) Employee Detail Nursing Home Staffing dataset provides information submitted by nursing homes including rehabilitation services on a quarterly basis.

Freshness

Last posted
Period covered
Jan 1, 2026 to Mar 31, 2026
Update frequency
Quarterly

Dates as CMS lists them in its catalog.

Columns 9

ColumnWhat it meansType
PROVNUMPROVNUMFederal Provider Numberstring
STATESTATEPostal abbreviation for statestring
CY_QtrCY_Qtrstring
WorkDateWorkDatestring
SYS_EMPLEE_IDSYS_EMPLEE_IDSystem Employee IDstring
EMPLEE_JOB_CD_IDEMPLEE_JOB_CD_IDEmployee Job Codestring
EMP_CTREMP_CTRstring
WORK_HRS_NUMWORK_HRS_NUMHours workednumber
WORK_HRS_FNWORK_HRS_FNFootnote for hours workedstring

At a glance

Catalog
data.cms.gov
Publisher
Office of Enterprise Data and Analytics (OEDA)
Rows
64,034,955
Columns
9
State column
STATE
Topics
Nursing homes, Hospitals, Spending and use of services, Quality and ratings
Contact
nhstaffing@cms.hhs.gov

API

Free, no key needed. This request returns the first 10 rows as JSON:

https://data.cms.gov/data-api/v1/dataset/d65b8be0-946e-410b-ab06-01829628d5a1/data?size=10

To keep only one state, filter on the STATE column.

Versions 24

The newest version is the one linked above. Older releases stay on the official site.

  • 2026-01-01posted Jul 29, 2026
  • 2025-10-01posted Apr 29, 2026
  • 2025-07-01posted Feb 5, 2026
  • 2025-04-01posted Nov 20, 2025
  • 2025-01-01posted Sep 11, 2025
  • 2024-12-31posted Apr 30, 2025
  • 2024-09-01posted Apr 2, 2025
  • 2024-04-01posted Oct 31, 2024
Show 16 older versions
  • 2024-01-01posted Jul 31, 2024
  • 2023-12-01posted Apr 24, 2024
  • 2023-09-01posted Jan 31, 2024
  • 2023-06-01posted Oct 25, 2023
  • 2023-03-01posted Jul 26, 2023
  • 2022-12-01posted Jul 26, 2023
  • 2022-09-30posted Jul 26, 2023
  • 2022-06-30posted Jul 26, 2023
  • 2022-03-01posted Jul 26, 2023
  • 2021-12-31posted Jul 26, 2023
  • 2021-09-30posted Jul 26, 2023
  • 2021-06-30posted Jul 26, 2023
  • 2021-03-01posted Jul 26, 2023
  • 2020-12-01posted Jul 26, 2023
  • 2020-09-30posted Jul 26, 2023
  • 2020-06-01posted Jul 26, 2023

CMS's description

The Payroll Based Journal (PBJ) Employee Detail Nursing Home Staffing dataset provides information submitted by nursing homes including rehabilitation services on a quarterly basis. The data include a system generated employee identification number, work date, job type and employment status, and hours worked for each nursing home employee.

Methodology and other documents from CMS:

The summary at the top is the first sentence of this description. Record id cms:d65b8be0-946e-410b-ab06-01829628d5a1. This record as JSON.

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