Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · El Paso, 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
Texas unemployment rate at 4.0%, labor force participation 63.7%
Texas Workforce Commission / Joint Economic Committee — September 2026 state labor market release
Local Economic Conditions
El Paso MSA unemployment rate at 4.8% for August 2026
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — BLS Economy at a Glance, preliminary August 2026 metro data
Texas manufacturing wage growth at 4.8% year over year
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas — Dallas Fed mid-year manufacturing wage survey
Texas added 159,400 jobs over the year, 1.1% growth
Texas Workforce Commission — August 2026 Texas nonfarm payroll report
Open Threads in the Data
National government payrolls down 216,000 over past year
Bureau of Labor Statistics — National employment situation report, September 2026
Looking Ahead
National WARN-tracked affected workers down year over year
LayoffAlert.org / WARNact.io — 2026 vs 2025 WARN Act notice comparison
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