Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL 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
Illinois labor force contracted from 6.571M to 6.477M since March 2026
Moody's Analytics / Illinois CGFA — Illinois labor force participation analysis
National wage growth slowed to 3.0% annually, weakest since May 2021
Bureau of Labor Statistics — September 2026 employment situation report
Illinois EDGE Q1 2026 commitments near 4,000 jobs, $2.5B investment
Illinois Economic Development Corporation — EDGE tax credit program commitments
Local Economic Conditions
Illinois-side metro unemployment at 3.9% in August, down 1.4 pts YoY
Illinois Department of Employment Security / BLS — County/metro unemployment data via IDES
Metro nonfarm employment down 2,100 jobs year-over-year
Bureau of Labor Statistics — Metro-area employment statistics
Looking Ahead
September 2026 BLS metro data scheduled for October 28 release
Bureau of Labor Statistics — BLS regional data release schedule
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