Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, 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 average weekly wage up 2% year-over-year in August 2026
Georgia Department of Labor — Statewide average weekly wage data
This Month's Takeaways
Georgia professional/technical services down 11,600 and federal government down 9,400 YoY
Georgia Department of Labor — Statewide sector employment changes
Local Economic Conditions
Metro Atlanta unemployment rate was 3.4% in August 2026
Georgia Department of Labor — Monthly metro unemployment data
Health care added more than 18,000 jobs in metro Atlanta over the past year
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Southeast Regional Office — Metro sector employment figures
Open Threads in the Data
Overall metro Atlanta employment essentially flat year-over-year in July 2026
Tech Square ATL — Metro employment trend reporting, September 2026
Looking Ahead
Georgia recorded 18 WARN notices in past 90 days affecting 2,709 workers
WARN Act filings — State WARN 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