Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Binghamton, NY 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 at 3.0% against 3.4% inflation
Bureau of Labor Statistics — National Employment Situation / CPI comparison, September 2026
This Month's Takeaways
Health care and social assistance is 16% of metro private employment
Bureau of Labor Statistics — Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, industry composition
Local Economic Conditions
Binghamton metro unemployment held at 4.4% in August 2026
New York State Department of Labor — Regional labor market data, August 2026
Employed residents rose 1,500 to 103,800 while payrolls held near 99,300
Bureau of Labor Statistics — Local Area Unemployment Statistics, Binghamton MSA
Looking Ahead
Sodexo WARN notice affecting 471 workers at Binghamton University
New York State Department of Labor WARN Notices — WARN filing, February 26, 2026
NY labor force participation fell from 61.5% to 61.3% in July 2026
New York State Department of Labor — Statewide labor force participation 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