employee-growth
Employee Growth Signal Schema
Source: autobound-employee-growth bucket
Last validated: 2026-01-08
signal_type: departmental-growth-trends bucket: autobound-employee-growth association: company description: Departmental composition, headcount distribution, and growth patterns refresh: quarterly coverage: 2,000,000 companies
All 29 subtypes (validated against GCS)
subtypes:
Aggregate signals
- multiDepartmentRapidGrowth
- departmentalReallocation
- normalizedGrowthSignal
Department-specific growth signals (26 departments)
- departmentalGrowthAccounting
- departmentalGrowthAdministrative
- departmentalGrowthArtsAndDesign
- departmentalGrowthBusinessDevelopment
- departmentalGrowthCommunityAndSocialServices
- departmentalGrowthConsulting
- departmentalGrowthCustomerSuccessAndSupport
- departmentalGrowthEducation
- departmentalGrowthEngineering
- departmentalGrowthEntrepreneurship
- departmentalGrowthFinance
- departmentalGrowthHealthcareServices
- departmentalGrowthHumanResources
- departmentalGrowthInformationTechnology
- departmentalGrowthLegal
- departmentalGrowthMarketing
- departmentalGrowthMediaAndCommunication
- departmentalGrowthMilitaryAndProtectiveServices
- departmentalGrowthOperations
- departmentalGrowthProductManagement
- departmentalGrowthProgramAndProjectManagement
- departmentalGrowthPurchasing
- departmentalGrowthQualityAssurance
- departmentalGrowthRealEstate
- departmentalGrowthResearch
- departmentalGrowthSales
No top-level signal_category (unlike SEC filings)
categories: []
Core fields (not counting nested departments_metadata which has 26 departments x 2 fields each)
fields:
Core fields
- path: signal_id type: string (UUID) description: Unique identifier for this signal
- path: batch_id type: string (UUID) description: Processing batch identifier
- path: signal_type type: string description: Always "departmental-growth-trends"
- path: signal_subtype type: string description: Specific signal type (see subtypes list)
- path: detected_at type: string (ISO 8601) description: When signal was generated
- path: association type: string description: Always "company"
Company object
- path: company.name type: string description: Company name
- path: company.domain type: string description: Company website domain
- path: company.linkedin_url type: string description: LinkedIn company URL
- path: company.industries type: string description: Primary industry (note - string not array)
- path: company.employee_count_low type: integer description: Low end of employee count range
- path: company.employee_count_high type: integer description: High end of employee count range
- path: company.description type: string description: Company description
Data object - common fields
- path: data.summary type: string description: One-line signal summary
- path: data.description type: string description: Detailed signal description
- path: data.relevance_score type: float (0.0-1.0) description: Relevance score for filtering
- path: data.overall_growth.1yr type: float description: 1-year overall headcount growth %
- path: data.overall_growth.6mth type: float description: 6-month overall headcount growth %
- path: data.overall_growth.2yr type: float description: 2-year overall headcount growth %
- path: data.company_size_category type: string description: "Size category: small, medium, large, enterprise"
- path: data.growth_category type: string description: "Growth category: slow, steady, rapid, aggressive"
- path: data.revenue_range_low type: integer description: Low end of revenue range (USD)
- path: data.revenue_range_high type: integer description: High end of revenue range (USD)
- path: data.total_headcount type: integer description: Total employee count
- path: data.decision_makers_count type: integer (nullable) description: Count of decision makers
- path: data.median_tenure type: float description: Median employee tenure (years)
- path: data.source_timestamp type: string (ISO 8601) description: Original data source timestamp
multiDepartmentRapidGrowth specific
- path: data.departments_growing type: array[object] description: Top 10 growing departments with headcount and growth
- path: data.departments_growing_count type: integer description: Total count of departments growing ≥5%
- path: data.growth_threshold type: float description: Growth threshold used (5.0%)
- path: data.fastest_growing_department type: string description: Name of fastest growing department
- path: data.fastest_growth_rate type: float description: Growth rate of fastest growing department
departments_metadata - 26 departments, each with headcount and growth_1yr
- path: data.departments_metadata type: object description: Headcount and 1yr growth for all 26 departments
Schema notes:
- company.industries is a string (not array like SEC filings)
- No company.ticker or company.financial_symbol
- No top-level signal_category
- Uses data.relevance_score (not data.relevance)
- Has rich departmental breakdown data
Updated about 15 hours ago