Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Chattanooga, TN-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 government payrolls down 216,000 over past year
Bureau of Labor Statistics — National employment situation report, September 2026
This Month's Takeaways
Manufacturing leads TN WARN filings with 22 notices, 3,466 workers
Tennessee WARN Notice tracking — 24-month WARN filing summary by industry
Tennessee average weekly wages up 4.4% year-over-year Q1 2026
Tennessee Department of Labor — Quarterly wage data by county
Local Economic Conditions
Hamilton County unemployment rate at 3.8% in June 2026
Tennessee Department of Labor — County-level labor force data
Looking Ahead
Nashville added 28,000+ jobs over 12 months via Oracle investment
State labor market reporting — Nashville-Davidson metro job growth figures
UT Chattanooga projected 3,200 new metro jobs for 2026
UT Chattanooga Center for Regional Economic Research — Regional economic forecast via NewsChannel 9
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