Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Albany, GA MSA · October 2026
Every advertised-pay, job-posting and industry figure in this briefing comes from WageScape's own database of active job postings. The sources below back the external facts cited in the written analysis.
Sources cited in this report
Key Indicators
Georgia labor force and employment at all-time highs, August 2026
Georgia Department of Labor — State labor force participation data
This Month's Takeaways
Health care added 19,100 jobs over the year statewide
Georgia Department of Labor — Annual sector job gains by industry
Local Economic Conditions
Albany MSA unemployment at 3.9% through July 2026
Georgia Department of Labor / BLS Southeast Information Office — Most recent official MSA unemployment data available
Dougherty County 4.6%, Lee County 2.7% county breakdown
Georgia Department of Labor — July 2026 county-level unemployment data
Looking Ahead
National wage growth of 3.0% vs 3.4% inflation, weakest since May 2021
Bureau of Labor Statistics — National wage and inflation comparison, September 2026
Georgia WARN filings dropped from 33 to 17 quarter-over-quarter
Georgia WARN Act filings — State layoff notice tracking through September 2026
How the numbers are calculated
- Advertised pay is the median of the pay ranges employers publish in active job postings in this metro. It is not survey or payroll data.
- Percent changes compare the latest six full months with the six months before that, for the same metro and sector.
- Sectors group postings by the employer's industry (NAICS) classification into ten sectors. Where a metro has too few postings in a sector, the state figure is used instead.
- Role pay trends use the same comparison windows. "Stable" means a change of less than 3%; "moderate" 3–10%; "significant" more than 10%.
Official data for comparison