Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Casper, WY 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 rate at 4.2% with 7.1 million unemployed
Bureau of Labor Statistics — September 2026 employment situation data
This Month's Takeaways
Natrona County Q4 2025 payroll rose 3.3% despite losing 203 jobs
Wyoming Department of Workforce Services — Quarterly county employment and wage report
Local Economic Conditions
Natrona County nonfarm jobs fell to 40,200 in Jan 2026, five straight months of losses
Oil City News / Wyoming Dept. of Workforce Services — County-level nonfarm employment reporting
Casper MSA average hourly wage of $28.93 vs national $33.54
Bureau of Labor Statistics — Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025
Looking Ahead
Wyoming mining employment fell 3.8% in Q1 2026
Wyoming Department of Workforce Services — Sector-level employment projections report
Wyoming labor force declined by 3,000+ people from 2024-2025
Wyoming Department of Workforce Services — Annual labor force participation report
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