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total_employees

Number of full-time employees as last reported. Useful for size-based filters ("small-cap by employee count").

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At a glance

Typeinteger
GroupProfile
CategoryIdentifiers & reference
Unitcount
Update cadencepost-close daily
Intervals1d
Universeall tickers
Historyrecent only (forward-only from first computation)
Nullableyes — NULL where not applicable

Which company this is: name, IDs (CIK, FIGI), listing status, contact, branding, employees.

Query it

Every applicable form factor, grouped by endpoint family. Swap YOUR_KEY for the value from /dashboard/keys. Response payloads are real captures, sampled 2026-08-18 and trimmed — your run's values and dates will differ.

Use signals /v2/signals/{signal}

One signal across the market: who matches now, who matched then, and a push when someone starts. Docs →

Live — every ticker with total_employees above a cutoff
curl -G "https://api.tickerbot.io/v2/signals/total_employees" \
  --data-urlencode "condition=> 150000" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY"
Response (sampled 2026-08-18, trimmed)
{
 "as_of": "2026-08-18T00:26:00.678Z",
 "signal": "total_employees",
 "condition": "> 150000",
 "universe": null,
 "count": 2,
 "results": [
  {
   "ticker": "WMT",
   "name": "Walmart Inc. Common Stock",
   "value": 2100000
  },
  {
   "ticker": "AMZN",
   "name": "Amazon.Com Inc",
   "value": 1576000
  }
 ]
}
As-of — the same read at a past date
curl -G "https://api.tickerbot.io/v2/signals/total_employees" \
  --data-urlencode "condition=> 150000" \
  -d "asof=2026-05-20" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY"
Response (sampled 2026-08-18, trimmed)
{
 "as_of": "2026-05-20",
 "signal": "total_employees",
 "condition": "> 150000",
 "universe": null,
 "count": 0,
 "results": []
}
Subscribe — webhook when a ticker starts matching
curl -X POST "https://api.tickerbot.io/v2/signals/total_employees/subscribe" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY" \
  -d '{"condition": "> 150000", "target_url": "https://example.com/hooks/tickerbot"}'

Returns 201 with the created webhook — the same shape as GET /v2/webhooks/{id}, plus a one-time signing_secret for HMAC verification.

Use scan /v2/scan

The whole market through a WHERE clause — this signal composed freely with any other column. Docs →

Live — the whole market, ranked by this column
curl -G "https://api.tickerbot.io/v2/scan" \
  --data-urlencode "q=total_employees IS NOT NULL" \
  -d "order=total_employees" -d "columns=total_employees" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY"
Response (sampled 2026-08-18, trimmed)
{
 "as_of": "2026-08-18T00:26:03.410Z",
 "query": {
  "q": "total_employees IS NOT NULL",
  "limit": 2,
  "order": "total_employees",
  "dir": "desc",
  "fields": [
   "total_employees"
  ],
  "full": false,
  "universe": null,
  "asset_class": null
 },
 "count": 2,
 "results": [
  {
   "ticker": "WMT",
   "name": "Walmart Inc. Common Stock",
   "asset_class": "stocks",
   "asset_type": "CS",
   "price": 114.35,
   "day_change_pct": -0.008,
   "gap_pct": -0.0082,
   "relative_volume": 0.6696,
   "market_cap": 917327784196,
   "total_employees": 2100000
  },
  {
   "ticker": "AMZN",
   "name": "Amazon.Com Inc",
   "asset_class": "stocks",
   "asset_type": "CS",
   "price": 261.106,
   "day_change_pct": -0.0059,
   "gap_pct": 0.0106,
   "relative_volume": null,
   "market_cap": 2833025259685,
   "total_employees": 1576000
  }
 ]
}
As-of — the same scan at a past date
curl -G "https://api.tickerbot.io/v2/scan" \
  --data-urlencode "q=total_employees IS NOT NULL" \
  -d "order=total_employees" -d "columns=total_employees" \
  -d "asof=2026-05-20" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY"
Response (sampled 2026-08-18, trimmed)
{
 "as_of": "2026-05-20",
 "query": {
  "q": "total_employees IS NOT NULL",
  "asof": "2026-05-20",
  "interval": "auto",
  "limit": 2,
  "order": "total_employees",
  "dir": "desc",
  "fields": [
   "total_employees"
  ],
  "full": false,
  "universe": null,
  "asset_class": null
 },
 "count": 0,
 "results": []
}
Subscribe — webhook on a market-wide condition
curl -X POST "https://api.tickerbot.io/v2/scan/subscribe" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY" \
  -d '{"q": "total_employees > 150000", "target_url": "https://example.com/hooks/tickerbot"}'

Returns 201 with the created webhook object; deliveries carry the tickers matching the condition at each evaluation.

Use series /v2/series

Its history over time, on one aligned grid. Docs →

History — the column on an aligned time grid
curl "https://api.tickerbot.io/v2/series?tickers=AAPL,MSFT&columns=close,total_employees" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY"
Response (sampled 2026-08-18, trimmed)
{
 "as_of": "2026-08-18T00:26:05.468Z",
 "interval": "1d",
 "tickers": [
  "AAPL",
  "MSFT"
 ],
 "columns": [
  "close",
  "total_employees"
 ],
 "count": 6,
 "series": {
  "AAPL": [
   {
    "t": "2026-08-12",
    "close": 302.25,
    "total_employees": 166000
   },
   {
    "t": "2026-08-13",
    "close": 305.26,
    "total_employees": 166000
   },
   {
    "t": "2026-08-14",
    "close": 305.93,
    "total_employees": 166000
   }
  ],
  "MSFT": [
   {
    "t": "2026-08-12",
    "close": 492.43,
    "total_employees": 223000
   },
   {
    "t": "2026-08-13",
    "close": 496.88,
    "total_employees": 223000
   },
   {
    "t": "2026-08-14",
    "close": 495.4,
    "total_employees": 223000
   }
  ]
 }
}

Same grammar on scan, series, and webhooks; state reads take ?asof= for point-in-time answers.

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