Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Bremerton-Silverdale, WA 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
Kitsap County payrolls fell 300 jobs with 500 fewer government jobs in July
Washington State Employment Security Department — ESD Kitsap County Profile, July 2026
National unemployment rate at 4.1% as of August 2026
Bureau of Labor Statistics — National employment situation report
Local Economic Conditions
Kitsap County unemployment rate fell to preliminary 3.5% in July 2026
Washington State Employment Security Department — ESD Kitsap County labor force profile
Washington state lost approximately 14,500 jobs in September 2026
Washington State Employment Security Department — Statewide monthly employment report, economist Paul Turek
Open Threads in the Data
22.9% of Kitsap County labor force employed by federal government
Washington State Employment Security Department — 2025 county employment statistics
Looking Ahead
Washington wage growth of 3.1% against 3.5% inflation, real wages declining
Washington State Employment Security Department — Statewide wage-vs-inflation analysis, 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