Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Charleston-North Charleston, SC 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
Headline
National wage growth of 3.0% trailing 3.4% inflation
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — National average hourly earnings vs. CPI, September 2026
This Month's Takeaways
US added just 29,000 jobs in September with downward revisions
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — National nonfarm payroll employment report
Local Economic Conditions
Charleston-North Charleston unemployment rate at 3.7% in July 2026
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — Metro area unemployment data
Charleston tied for sixth nationally in 4.1% annual employment growth
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics / LinkedIn — Metro employment growth ranking
Charleston County led SC with 5.7% wage growth in Q1 2026
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, county-level wage growth
Looking Ahead
DP World Spartanburg WARN notice affecting 205 workers, filed Sept 1
South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce — WARN Act notice tracking
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