Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Corvalis, OR 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
Oregon statewide unemployment at 5.1% in August 2026
Oregon Employment Department — Statewide labor force statistics
This Month's Takeaways
Oregon healthcare added jobs at 3.5% rate over the year
Oregon Employment Department — Sector-level employment change data
Local Economic Conditions
Benton County unemployment at 4.1% in August 2026
Oregon Employment Department / QualityInfo — County-level unemployment data
Corvallis MSA unemployment reached 4.8% in July 2026
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — Metro area preliminary unemployment figures
Looking Ahead
National wage growth fell to 3.0% vs 3.4% inflation
Bureau of Labor Statistics — Average hourly earnings and CPI data
Oregon manufacturing down 14,600 jobs over two years
Oregon Employment Department — Statewide sector employment trends
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