Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Bloomington, IN 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
Novo Nordisk Bloomington layoff of 400 employees
Indiana Daily Student — Local news reporting on employer layoff
Local Economic Conditions
Bloomington MSA unemployment rate was 3.7% in July 2026
Indiana Department of Workforce Development — Metro-level labor force statistics
Monroe County private business establishments grew 4.6% year over year
Indiana Department of Workforce Development, EGR 8 Labor Market Review — County business establishment data
Open Threads in the Data
National payroll growth was 29,000 in September, wages up 3.0% vs 3.4% inflation
Bureau of Labor Statistics — National employment situation report
Looking Ahead
Indiana labor force participation fell to 63% over past year
Indiana Department of Workforce Development — State labor force participation data
Givaudan $215 million investment in Dearborn County creating 250+ jobs
Indiana Economic Development Corporation — State economic development announcement
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