Sample Employees JSON

Fifty employee records with departments, titles, salaries, hire dates, remote flags, and self-referencing manager IDs - a classic HR dataset for org charts and reporting exercises.

https://jsonconsole.com/api/employees.json

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Preview

[
  {
    "id": 1,
    "name": "Linus Allen",
    "email": "linus.allen@company.example",
    "department": "Sales",
    "title": "Staff Designer",
    "salary": 106000,
    "hireDate": "2019-08-27",
    "remote": true,
    "manager": null
  },
  {
    "id": 2,
    "name": "Yukihiro Allen",
    "email": "yukihiro.allen@company.example",
    "department": "Finance",
    "title": "Senior Manager",
    "salary": 173000,
    "hireDate": "2023-07-06",
    "remote": false,
    "manager": null
  },
  {
    "id": 3,
    "name": "Rasmus Liskov",
    "email": "rasmus.liskov@company.example",
    "department": "Sales",
    "title": "Junior Manager",
    "salary": 140000,
    "hireDate": "2023-02-23",
    "remote": false,
    "manager": null
  }
]

First 3 records shown - the full file has 50 records.

Fields

Field	Type	Notes
id / name / email	number / string	company.example addresses
department	string	8 departments (Engineering, Design, ...)
title	string	Seniority + role combinations
salary	number	45,000-180,000
hireDate	string (date)	2015-2026
remote	boolean	~50/50 split
manager	number \| null	Self-referencing ID (null for top 5)

Fetch it in code

JavaScript

const res = await fetch(
  "https://jsonconsole.com/api/employees.json"
);
const data = await res.json();

Python

import requests

data = requests.get(
    "https://jsonconsole.com/api/employees.json"
).json()

What this dataset is good for

Org-chart and hierarchy rendering (self-referencing manager field)
Group-by/aggregate exercises: average salary by department
SQL practice - pair with our JSON-to-SQL converter

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