Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Brunswick, GA 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 unemployment at 4.1%-4.2%, wage growth at 3.0% vs 3.4% inflation
Bureau of Labor Statistics — National employment situation report, September 2026
This Month's Takeaways
Georgia manufacturing accounts for ~39% of historical WARN-triggered layoffs
WARN Act Notices Database — State layoff filing data through September 2026
Government workforce declined 216,000 nationally over the past year
Bureau of Labor Statistics — National payroll employment by sector
Local Economic Conditions
Glynn County unemployment rate near 2.70% in July 2026
Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) — County-level unemployment data
Brunswick MSA employment reached 48,097, up 3.8% YoY in Q1 2026
Georgia Department of Labor — Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages data
Looking Ahead
459 active open job positions in Brunswick area as of September 13, 2026
Workopia Hiring Intelligence — Metro-level job posting count
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