Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Cincinnati-Middletown, OH-KY-IN 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
This Month's Takeaways
Cincinnati has ticked ahead of Columbus in employment levels
Regional labor market research notes — Metro employment comparison, 2026
National average hourly earnings grew 3.0% vs 3.4% inflation
Bureau of Labor Statistics — National wage and CPI data, September 2026
Local Economic Conditions
Cincinnati-Middletown MSA unemployment rate at 3.70% in July 2026
Bureau of Labor Statistics / Local Area Unemployment Statistics — Metro-level unemployment data, July 2026
Ohio labor force down 95,000 year-over-year as of August 2026
Ohio Department of Job and Family Services — State labor force participation data
Looking Ahead
Ohio has 18 WARN notices in past 90 days affecting 3,134 workers
LayoffIQ tracking — Ohio WARN Act notice tracking, 2026
National construction layoffs fell to 108,000 in August from 182,000 in July
Associated Builders and Contractors / BLS — National construction employment data, August 2026
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