Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY 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
Albany apartment vacancy at 3.6%, lowest among tracked metros
ApartmentList/Tactica RES — Metro apartment vacancy rate tracking
County-level unemployment rates for Albany, Schenectady, Rensselaer counties
New York State Department of Labor — August 2026 preliminary county unemployment data
This Month's Takeaways
National wage growth slowed to 3.0% year-over-year against 3.4% inflation
Bureau of Labor Statistics — September 2026 average hourly earnings and CPI data
Local Economic Conditions
Metro averaged 250 job losses per month in 2026, lowest since 2020
New York State Department of Labor — Nonfarm employment trend data for Albany-Schenectady-Troy MSA
Open Threads in the Data
Government payrolls fell 216,000 nationally over the past year
Bureau of Labor Statistics — National government employment trend, September 2026
Looking Ahead
46 WARN notices filed in New York affecting 4,694 workers over 90 days
LayoffIQ — New York State WARN Act notice tracking
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