Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Altoona, PA 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
Pennsylvania WARN notice activity over trailing 90 days
LayoffIQ — WARN Act notice tracking, September 2026
This Month's Takeaways
Altoona average weekly wage vs national average
USA Facts / Bureau of Labor Statistics — Q3 2024 wage data by metro
Local Economic Conditions
Altoona MSA unemployment rate and nonfarm employment figures for July 2026
PA Department of Labor & Industry — Monthly metro employment situation report
PA sector job gains/losses since August 2025 by supersector
Keystone Research Center — Analysis of PA DLI employment data
Looking Ahead
September national payroll growth of 29,000 and downward revisions
Bureau of Labor Statistics — September 2026 Employment Situation Summary
Pennsylvania labor force dropout trend 2025
Keystone Research Center / PA DLI — Labor force participation analysis
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