Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Coeur d'Alene, ID 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
Idaho ranks third nationally for wage growth at 4.7%
Idaho Department of Labor — Occupational wage survey
Truck-driver postings more than doubled year-over-year in Northern Idaho
Idaho Department of Labor — Regional job posting analysis
Local Economic Conditions
Coeur d'Alene MSA unemployment rate at 3.7% in August 2026
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — Local Area Unemployment Statistics, Coeur d'Alene MSA
Coeur d'Alene nonfarm employment fell 0.3% month-over-month in August
Idaho Department of Labor — idahoatwork.com metro employment data
Looking Ahead
Northern Idaho unemployment rate at 4.56% in August 2026
Idaho Department of Labor — Regional labor market data
National nonfarm payrolls added 29,000 jobs in September with downward revisions
Bureau of Labor Statistics — National employment situation report
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