Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Duluth, MN-WI 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 WARN-affected worker counts and named employers in 2026 filings
LayoffAlert.org / Newsweek — WARN Act tracking aggregation
This Month's Takeaways
DEED commissioner cites aging population and immigration enforcement effects
Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development — DEED Commissioner Matt Varilek public remarks
Local Economic Conditions
Duluth MSA unemployment rate and employment trend, April-June 2026
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — BLS Economy at a Glance, Duluth MN-WI MSA
Minnesota labor force participation rate decline to 66.9%
Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development — DEED monthly labor force statistics release
Looking Ahead
National wage growth at 3.0% vs 3.4% inflation, weakest since May 2021
Bureau of Labor Statistics — BLS average hourly earnings and CPI data
Minnesota WARN notices down 69% year over year
Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development — DEED WARN Act notice tracking, 2026
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