Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Dubuque, IA 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
National nonfarm payrolls added 29,000 jobs in September 2026
Bureau of Labor Statistics — National employment situation report
Iowa unemployment rate steady at 3.2% for fourth consecutive month
Iowa Workforce Development — State labor market data, August 2026
This Month's Takeaways
John Deere Dubuque Works layoffs of ~130 employees in 2025
BizTimes — Local business news reporting
Local Economic Conditions
Dubuque MSA non-farm employment and unemployment rate, July 2026
Greater Dubuque Development Corporation — Regional labor market reporting
Open Threads in the Data
Iowa labor force decline driven by retirement, concentrated ages 45-54
Common Sense Institute — Iowa workforce composition analysis
Looking Ahead
Manufacturing accounts for 46% of Iowa WARN-affected workers
WARNact.io — 24-month rolling WARN Act notice data
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