Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Bend, OR 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
Oregon unemployment rate at 5.1% in August 2026
Oregon Employment Department — Oregon statewide labor market report
National wage growth at 3.0% against 3.4% inflation
Bureau of Labor Statistics — Employment Situation report, September 2026
This Month's Takeaways
Oregon healthcare sector added 10,200 jobs over past year
Oregon Employment Department — Industry employment trends report
Local Economic Conditions
Bend MSA unemployment rate at 4.3% in August 2026
Bureau of Labor Statistics — Local Area Unemployment Statistics for Bend MSA
Bend job postings grew 4.0% year-over-year in Q1 2026
Oregon Business & Industry — Quarterly job postings analysis by Oregon metro
Looking Ahead
Oregon ranks 48th nationally for payroll employment growth
Bureau of Labor Statistics — State employment and unemployment comparison 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