Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Cheyenne, 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
Wyoming statewide unemployment held at 3.0% in August 2026
Wyoming Department of Workforce Services — State unemployment rate release
This Month's Takeaways
Laramie County nonfarm payrolls fell 300 jobs year-over-year in April 2026
Cap City News — Reporting on county employment decline
National wage growth slowed to 3.0% vs 3.4% inflation in September 2026
Bureau of Labor Statistics — National wage and inflation comparison
Local Economic Conditions
Laramie County unemployment rate of 2.6% in July 2026
USA Facts / BLS county data — County-level unemployment estimate
Looking Ahead
Wyoming mining employment fell 3.8% in Q1 2026
Wyoming Department of Workforce Services — State sector employment trend
National WARN notices affected over 313,000 workers as of late September 2026
LayoffAlert.org — 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