# Ara Kharazian

> Economist at Ramp

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/arakharazian

Substack: econlab.substack.com
Website: ramp.com/data
Contact: press@ramp.com

Writing and analysis of AI, business spend, and the economy. Building a team dedicated to producing public-facing economic research with first-party data from Ramp.

My research has been covered on NBC, ABC, the New York Times, Planet Money, Bloomberg, Fortune Magazine, the Financial Times, the Globe and Mail, Axios, the Atlantic, the Guardian, Vox, and more.

I was previously the Economic Research Lead at Square, where I developed Square Payroll Index, which became one of the key public datasets used to track restaurant worker wages, tips, and overtime in the United States. Before that, I was an economic consultant at Cornerstone Research.

## Work Experience
### Lead Economist, Ramp Economics Lab @ Ramp
Jan 2025 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area
Writing and analysis of AI, business spend, and the economy. I write Ramp Economics Lab (econlab.substack.com).

### Economic Research Lead @ Square
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | New York City Metropolitan Area
Coverage in NYTimes, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Axios, and others. I led research and data initiatives to produce economic analysis of consumer, labor, and business trends to inform policymakers, journalists, and academics. I was also the principal researcher and developer of Square Payroll Index, a public tool to track and measure wage growth for service workers in the restaurant and retail sectors in the United States using data from Square Payroll.

### Data Scientist, Go-to-Market Platform @ Square
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | New York City Metropolitan Area

### Economic Consulting Analyst @ Cornerstone Research
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Washington D.C. Metro Area

### Research Associate @ NERA Economic Consulting
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Washington D.C. Metro Area

### Management and Finance Analyst @ Arlington County Government
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Washington D.C. Metro Area

### Communications Intern @ United States Senate (Sen. Brian Schatz)
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Washington D.C. Metro Area

### Legislative Intern @ United States Senate (Sen. Brian Schatz)
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Washington D.C. Metro Area

### Intern @ U.S. House of Representatives
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Washington, D.C.


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Economics, summa cum laude
Tufts University

### Diploma
Sidwell Friends School

### Student Global Leadership Institute
Punahou School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/akharazian

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Last updated: 2026-04-07