Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Amarillo, TX 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
National wage growth 3.0% vs inflation 3.4%
Bureau of Labor Statistics / Indeed Hiring Lab — National wage and inflation comparison, September 2026
This Month's Takeaways
Texas manufacturing wages up 4.8% year-over-year, strongest since Dec 2023
Dallas Federal Reserve — Mid-year manufacturing wage survey
Local Economic Conditions
Amarillo unemployment at 3.7% August, 4.2% September with 29,000 jobs added
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics / Texas Workforce Commission — Metro employment and unemployment figures
Fermi AI data center campus details near Pantex
Amarillo National Bank economic forecast — Local economic development project details
Sales tax collections up ~12% YoY, vehicle sales up over 30%
Texas A&M Regional Economic Research Center — Regional consumer spending indicators
Looking Ahead
Texas WARN notices down 45% in affected workers year-over-year
LayoffData / LayoffIQ — Statewide WARN Act filing trends
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