Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Anniston-Oxford, AL 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
Alabama prime-age labor force participation rate
Alabama Department of Workforce — September 2026 labor force participation release
This Month's Takeaways
Alabama record construction and manufacturing weekly wages
Alabama Department of Workforce — August 2026 state labor market newsletter
Local Economic Conditions
Anniston-Oxford unemployment rate and year-ago comparison
Alabama Department of Workforce / BLS — Metro unemployment rate, August 2026 vs August 2025
Metro average hourly wage vs. national average
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025
Looking Ahead
Alabama WARN notice totals and named closures for 2026
layoffdata.com — 2026 WARN Act notice tracking for Alabama
National wage growth vs. inflation divergence
Bureau of Labor Statistics — September 2026 average hourly earnings and CPI data
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