Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Burlington, NC 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% annually against 3.4% inflation
Bureau of Labor Statistics — Average hourly earnings and CPI data
This Month's Takeaways
NC labor force participation rate fell to 57.8%, down 1.6 points year-over-year
North Carolina Department of Commerce — State labor force participation data
Local Economic Conditions
Burlington MSA unemployment rate at 3.8% as of July 2026
Bureau of Labor Statistics (Local Area Unemployment Statistics) — Metro-level unemployment data
Alamance County investment total of $433.8 million since 2022
Alamance County Economic Development — County economic development investment tracking
Looking Ahead
September national payroll growth of 29,000 with downward revisions to July/August
Bureau of Labor Statistics — National nonfarm payroll employment report
13 WARN notices filed in NC in the last 90 days affecting 1,336 workers
North Carolina Department of Commerce WARN Notices — State WARN Act filing tracker
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