Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX 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
DFW average weekly wages $1,785 in Q1 2026 vs. $1,654 U.S. average
Bureau of Labor Statistics — Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, Q1 2026
This Month's Takeaways
Information sector fell 2,500 jobs, down 2.8%, steepest decline among DFW sectors
Bureau of Labor Statistics — BLS Dallas-Fort Worth Area Economic Summary
Financial activities sector down 129,000 jobs nationally from May 2025 peak
Bureau of Labor Statistics — National employment situation report, Sept. 2026
Local Economic Conditions
DFW unemployment rose to 4.6% in July from 4.1% in February, eased to 4.4% in August
Capital Analytics Associates — DFW labor market trend summary, Sept. 2026
DFW added 54,000 jobs over the year ending July 2026, 1.3% growth
Capital Analytics Associates / BLS Dallas-Fort Worth Area Economic Summary — Metro payroll and sector employment data
Open Threads in the Data
DFW accounted for 410 of Texas' 1,406 qualifying corporate investment projects in 2025
Capital Analytics Associates — Corporate investment project tracking, Texas 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