Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Evansville, IN-KY 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
Evansville MSA unemployment rate of 2.5% in April 2026
USA Facts / BLS — Metro-area unemployment data citation referenced in pre-research
National nonfarm payrolls added 29,000 jobs in September 2026
Bureau of Labor Statistics — National employment situation report figure
National wage growth of 3.0% vs 3.4% inflation
Bureau of Labor Statistics — Average hourly earnings and CPI comparison
Local Economic Conditions
TaylorMade's expansion in Vanderburgh County
The Kirkland Company — Local economic development reporting on warehouse expansion
Open Threads in the Data
Indiana announced 570 new high-wage jobs in advanced manufacturing and agbioscience
Office of Governor Mike Braun / IEDC — State economic development announcement, September 2026
Looking Ahead
Indiana logged 24 WARN notices affecting 3,646 workers in 2026
LayoffData — State-level WARN Act notice tracking
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