Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Cleveland, TN 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
Bradley County unemployment rate near 3.3%-3.9% in 2026
Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development — County-level unemployment reporting, May-Aug 2026
National wage growth of 3.0% against 3.4% inflation
Bureau of Labor Statistics — September 2026 employment and wage data
This Month's Takeaways
Tennessee 2026 projected job growth of 31,400 (0.9%)
Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development — State job growth projections, 2026
Healthcare support occupations fastest-growing in Bradley County
Cleveland Chamber of Commerce — Economic Overview, local occupational projections
Looking Ahead
Tennessee WARN notices affecting at least 5,982 workers in 2026
Tennessee WARN Act filings — State WARN notice tracking, early August 2026
Nashville metro added 28,000+ jobs over 12 months
Boyd Center for Business and Economic Research — Regional job growth comparison, Tennessee metros
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