Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Austin-Round Rock, 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
This Month's Takeaways
Texas construction employment grew 5.1% over the year
Texas Workforce Commission — State industry employment data
National government payrolls down 17,000 in September, 216,000 over year
Bureau of Labor Statistics — Government sector employment trend
Local Economic Conditions
Austin-Round Rock unemployment rate at 3.7% in August 2026
Bureau of Labor Statistics / Texas Workforce Commission — Metro-level unemployment data
National payrolls added 29,000 jobs in September with downward revisions
Bureau of Labor Statistics — National employment situation report
Open Threads in the Data
National wage growth fell to 3.0%, below 3.4% inflation
Bureau of Labor Statistics — Average hourly earnings vs CPI
Looking Ahead
Texas WARN notices down 45% in affected workers year-over-year
LayoffData — State WARN Act filing tracker
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